White Peacock
CVI.
On April 8th, I heard a haunting song on WRR, my local classic music station, to which I listen in the car. Not only the music but the composer inspired me to create this hub. Meet Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer whose short life (35 years) produced amazing works. Sadly, he was taken by pneumonia at a time in history when that disease almost invariably was fatal: born September 17, 1884, died April 8, 1920.
Remembered as the best-known American representative of musical Impressionism, his music is infused with exotic, mysterious sounds of the French Impressionists, as well as influences from Russian composers of his time.
Perhaps what most intrigues me is a subtle Japanese influence. Please - Njoy!
The White Peacock by Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Languor ~
Love ~
Lovely
As a feather-touch
On dewy skin,
Barely pressed,
Not stressed.
Its soothing
Whispers
Tantalize senses,
Doing much to
Subdue anxiety,
Restore tranquility.
______© Nellieanna H. Hay
No other
Peak or path
Has shown before
Sublime transparent light
Like this.
Translucent future
Beckons
Forwardly
For me to seek
Continuation's bliss.
______© Nellieanna H. Hay
The Writ
Details intermingling
With the whole of it
Upon its mystic page
Too closely, now
For emphasis
To be excluded
From the play.
It all must move
And blossom
Together,
Undisturbed
From inspiration's seed
Onto its polished stage.
______© Nellieanna H. Hay
Glowing white,
Steaming,
Streaming,
Shimmering
Against
Its verdant background.
Halo of light
Swaying,
Playing,
Straying
In the slightest
Breeze.
Touching lightest
Dreams and fantasies
With its magic
Sweetness,
Completing,
Treating with its spell.
______© Nellieanna H. Hay
The world ~
Entranced
At Beauty’s feet ~
Complete.
When there is nothing
More to say ~
Say it
Silently.
______© Nellieanna H. Hay
