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Category: Music

tubular tones

wind chimes sing to me from the backyard this late winter morning

beauty, tintinnabulation, wind, wind chimes

crying eyes cast downward

This canvas was not meant to be pierced.

authenticity, choices, damage, integrity, repair, wellness

a lot of nerve – #SoCS

Different is good

abstract, appreciation, intent, Jackson Pollock, Millet, painting, Poetry, Prose, Purpose, realism, writing

Waitin’ for Moby to Show

There’s some up top and some below, Just waitin’ for Moby to show (Huh!)

#FFFocus, Sea Shanty, TikTok, Wellerman, whaling

Frozen Heart

There’s beauty and there’s danger here – Split the ice apart!

Disney, Frozen, Frozen Heart

God is not dead

God is not dead, nor doth He sleep

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, longfellow

bleak sufficient

Enough. Fall down!

blackout, Christina Rosetti, contentedness, enough, erasure poetry, In the Bleak Midwinter

on advent – v

Please, bring some tidings.

#haiku, advent, god rest ye merry gentlemen, joy, third sunday, tidings

The Ultimate Ben Christmas Music List

In case you need some ideas to freshen your list and/or want inside my holiday brain.

Creatio ex nihilo

a lone voice
asking its questions
innocently,
plaintively,
into the void.

A Major, Adagio, K 488, Mozart, pain, perfection, Piano Concerto, pleasure

a work of unbroken openness – part 3

let connections define gaps

connectedness, connection, openwork

a work of unbroken openness – part 2

Look at all those holes…

connectedness, durchbrochene Arbeit, openwork

a work of unbroken openness – part 1

durchbrochene Arbeit

durchbrochene Arbeit, limerick, rest, sabbath

rhythm of another kind

overnight rain is ~ thoroughly thrumming ~ without meter ~ or rhyme

beat, beat peculiar, change, peace, rhythm, sameness

silent fires

a symphony of sight – no sound –
as silent fires above abound

day, ears, fire, sound, stars, symphony, vacuum

88 keys for a reason

Is there room for classical expectations and contemporary frontiers?

bernstein, chords, Danse Macabre, discord, dissonance, harmony, Mozart, Music, Poetry, Saint-Saens, tritone

playing around

good for your brain like music.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, capitalization, Poetry, punctuation, spacing

Omar

God made poetry instead of just adjectives

Dr Zhivago, Egypt, Funny GIrl, loss, Love, mystery, Poetry, Sphinx

The Messenger Project

A plan was hatched. A true “chicken or the egg?” scenario, if you think about it.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, collaboration, erasure, Poetry

the natural

Mary Oliver is my girl. always my muse.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, mary oliver, Poetry, pure, unassuming

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