Will I Have To Do This
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"I taste a liquor never brewed" - Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
When landlords turn the drunken bee Out of the foxglove's door, When butterflies renounce their drams, I shall but drink the more!
Till seraphs swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun!
Note: Before too long, before I forget, a poem that I was thinking about yesterday, running around the block in the warmth, over sidewalks covered with the fallen pink-purple crab apple petals
Big Book Of Poetry
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Morning Music
Arvo Pärt's minimalistic masterpiece "Tabula Rasa" set to ballet.
Note: I had mentioned Arvo Pärt's music last night to N as we were discussing music composition across time, and style in music. While N knows what she is talking about when it comes to music, given that she was fed classical music right from the cradle, I just have to go with my undeveloped animal instincts for certain kind of sounds. So based on such imprecise criteria, Arvo Pärt's melancholic and sparse music ranks high among the handful of contemporary classical composers I know of.
These are few other clips containing Pärt's music, which I found on YouTube:
- Spiegel im Spiegel
- Fratres I
- Pas de
- Da pacem Domine
- First clip from "Preludes for a Fugue", a documentary on Pärt
- Bjork's conversation with Pärt
Also an older melancholic post that mentions Pärt
Music Posts
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