I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your blog if you have one (not required to participate!) I’ll add your contributions all week and then I will draw a name at random on Saturday from everyone who participates and will send the winner a copy of my most recent zine Season by the Sea: A Contemporary Book of Hours. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog and encourage others to come join the party!
The title from this post is a line from Jack Gilbert’s beautiful poem A Brief for the Defense (click over to read the whole poem). This line came back to my memory while in Vienna when we saw this street musician performing on the Graben, one of the city’s pedestrian zones. The cello is by far my favorite instrument and while standing there on a perfect summer evening and watching him play I thought of my father who loved music so much and wondered if, when he was young, the sounds of his favorite Austrian composers got him through the terrible years of the war.
Have there been times when music provided you solace? What do Gilbert’s words and the mosaic of images evoke for you?
exquisite mastery deep
soul delight ignite
2 comments:
Mavis, thanks so much for your poetry party contribution. I love the spareness of your words and especially the pairing of those last two. Blessings! Christine
Thanks Christine. This image is very very powerful for me.
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