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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Museful Mornings:
Pre-Pandemic Poetry (#5)

By Geoffrey Dean


Symphonic Gr8ness

Mahler 8 is simply great –
What a way to celebrate,
Even with trumpeters who feel the need
To blast your ears until they bleed.

Choral males commence to rush
Causing conductor to beat and blush.
The children forget to enter when cued
So stuffed are they on pre-show food.

But most sincerely I can tell
You that this epic was an epic sell.
It reached the hearts of those who heard
Even more than Mahler’s 3rd.
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(5/18/2019)


Copyright © 2022 by Geoffrey Dean

1 comment:

  1. I might have sped and stressed the beat of the second and third stanzas thus:

    Choral males commence to rush
    Conductor made to beat and blush.
    Children miss their entry cued
    Too stuffed on all that pre-show food.

    But most sincerely I you tell
    This epic was an epic sell.
    It reached the hearts of those who heard
    Even more than Mahler’s 3rd.

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