music yields to an achingly
lyrical melody, in keeping
and consuming. it’s a sound
personified by the slippery
trilling strings represent the
main blazes. flutes and other
winds twinkle, throwing up
horns rise, and swirling
moans and screams in the
sparks. later magic fire
cause of its unusually fast
music, fire was more frantic
comes from the percussion
more sexual. it is the inspiration
with fire’s ambiguous nature
epitomized by what we could be
-dazzling
From an article in the December 2012 Smithsonian Magazine on fire as an element in music and art for a dVerse prompt
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An orchestra of joy!
Excellent – I would love to be in the middle of all this!
Anna :o]
Oh, this was a vibrant and exciting read!
Dadaist brilliance! The last line grabbed hold of me:
epitomized by what we could be
-dazzling
powerful!! Great job. -Mike
“words twinkle, throwing up” why I loved that so much, the words literally barf out at times..Exactly what dadaist is about.. triple love this Kathleen.
Thanks Rhonda – so happy you liked it! K
I like the source of your poems ~ Fire is very symbolic and you have creatively harnessed its nature like music, dazzling ~
Thanks Grace – K
An achingly lyrical melody–this is my favorite kind of music, touching the soul. Great choice for your source here, so many powerful phrases knit together beautifully!
Thank you – so appreciate your kind words – K
by what we could be—-dazzling….absolutely love the close…as if we could be but are not for some reason….the percussion more sexual made me snicker too…ha….this had great flow for a cut up….nicely played….
Thanks Brian – was fun to play with the lines from the article – great words to start with – hard to mess up too badly! K
A dazzling piece!!
Thank you so much- K
Wow this made perfect sense to me— dazzling indeed.
Thank you Bjorn – I appreciate your kind words – K
Dazzled me – great response to the prompt.
thanks so much – happy you liked it! K
I still need to give this a try! fantastic !
Thanks – it is a fun exercise – not my cup of tea usually but good to do something different. Give it a try! hugs – K
That’s a really nice pulling together of scintillating elements 🙂 It’s got a lot of sparkling, clear images that just pop out from the page. The way it hangs together almost creates a synaesthetic effect.
It was a well written article and filled with wonderful images – hard to go wrong with that – thanks – K
that closure is just….dazzling…ha…very cool k. – love the idea of fire as an element in music and really love how it intermingles here with all the instruments..how it gives a certain character as well
Thanks, Claudia – it was an interesting article – kinda sorry I cut it up – 🙂 K
Such a powerful, poetic expression of music…
Thanks so much – K
I enjoyed what you did with this. Amazing what one can do with words from a Smithsonian article. Smiles. The words carried me along from beginning to end. I liked the ending a lot, but henna ink mentioned that. A phrase that I especially liked was ‘flutes and other winds twinkle.’
It was funn to play with the lines of this article – happy you liked it, Mary! K
I LOVE the ending:
“music, fire was more frantic
comes from the percussion
more sexual. it is the inspiration
with fire’s ambiguous nature
epitomized by what we could be
-dazzling”
So happy you liked it – thanks K