January 17

The Rite of Spring

Free Verse, love poems, poems, Poetry, The Unique & Sundry, The Unique & Sundry: A Poetry Collection

0  comments

When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia as a caregiver your own life gets turned inside out as well. In fact probably even more as the caregiver. But really who knows? All of us are having our own experiences through our personal realities. Who are any of us to say what's real or not real in any given moment for anyone else. 

For me poetry and music have been consistent ways to examine emotions and personal growth the experience gifts me. Recently, I have found myself, once again, pulling at the threads my emotions through poetry. Some how by placing one word next to another I am able to find peace with grief. But even more powerful, I have been able to unravel the gift of the journey. 

Here are two of my most recent poems:

a cardinal rests
it’s frozen reflection
~ encapsulated
your colorful life stilled
in a lake of memories

image of guitar from the neck with the poem Sing Me overlaid.

The Rite of Spring

After listening to The Kansas City Symphony’s performance

trumpet1

A lone bassoon
weaves the air
with youth and surrender
passion and death.

Bows seesaw strings
evoking
flight and fight
forcing
instinct and power to a climax.

You can hear Stravinsky’s girl
in the e-flat clarinet,
piccolos, and flutes.
Proud to be the star.

Yet she is afraid of the thundering
tam-tam, timpani, and bass drum
that call her closer to her fate.

As the dancer submits to death
We hear the tears
and mourning sobs
of the audience
in the piccolo trumpet
and a grave tuba.

After the rapid succession
of innocence lost, we watch
motionless, our breath held
suddenly aware of moments,
intent on our own demise.

This poem can now be found in The Unique & Sundry, which happens to be available on Amazon.

To listen to a really cool version of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring click Musanin animated video

 

About the author

Creator of sounds. Poet on an energetic journey with words. Explorer of Frequencies.


 

Delaina J Miller

You may also like

Poetry and Dementia

Poetry and Dementia

A Myth and A New Release

A Myth and A New Release
{"email":"Email address invalid","url":"Website address invalid","required":"Required field missing"}

Subscribe to my newsletter "Vibrations"!

>