Impressions of Spring Music
Bill Hartner is an old friend of mine who loves guitar music and wrote these poems after Festival 21 2010. Love it!
Impressions of Spring Music
I.
While you were playing your guitars,
I imagined the children’s voices I heard
As a part of the performance, so lucky,
Softly intermingled between the parts,
A duo made more than trio,
That conjured the outdoors on a warm spring evening
Before families of listeners who accepted all,
Their own murmurings as well,
Who applauded everyone’s contribution.
II.
Heard and felt the earth,
The city’s hubbub,
Ants’ wiggling antennae,
Laughter,
Breaking of cheap dishes,
The usual birds conversing,
Snails carrying bells on their shells,
Rocking slowly in a boat,
A leaf by wind, tossed.
