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The Web Poetry Corner - Rick Bandy - A Single Note

A Single Note

by

Rick Bandy

A single note.
Tentative, awkward.
Born of a longing.
Drawing out a second
Fumbling effort.
Fascination grows.
The tones align to form
A phrase.

A single phrase.
Simple, brief.
Repeated endlessly
Chasing perfection.
Varied and modified,
Seeking to loose
the voice inside.
To answer the longing.
The phrases expand.

The intricacy grows.
Increasing speed
Multi-syllabic, powerful.
The heart swells and pours
Itself in great waves of notes.
Virtuosic deluge, oblivious to aught
But the inner melody,
The chest-tightening burn.

Thoughts disappear,
Leaving only the outpouring,
The opening of the soul
Expressed in tones.
Freed from the chains of technique
The prod of ego,
the mechanics of rhythm.
Listening.

Phrases transformed
Clarified and simplified.
Distilled down to perfection.

A single note.

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