Nostalgia

 

we knock upon silence

for an answering music

     Lu Chi

  

 

 

It has one name but many meanings,

Changing with time as he has, though

Some will always define him - an adagio

Of Albinoni that will forever be playing

At her funeral, Debussy's Clair de Lune

She practiced for thirty years and never

Believed she had mastered, the gentle

Sweet opening movement of Beethoven's

Für Elise that he played at recital to say

Without saying he loved her.  The song

He would write for her but never could,

Hearing the words but not the notes.

How nostalgia is part the way it was

And part regret, and always the music.





Poetry by countryfog
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Written on 2015-08-11 at 14:12

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Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
Very nice. The most powerful trigger for the memory is music. And all music will become nostalgia eventually. But I do not think nostalgia exists. It is a word we use to evade the responsibility of reminiscing.
2015-08-17


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
I would have said, "always arrives with the music," but I talk too much. I know what you mean, and you're right.
2015-08-12


Ivan R
This poem has a lot of music in it self, a great tone, a fine pace, an intriguing story and a good tune in it all together ... applause
2015-08-12



Music is poetry--sometimes with words, sometimes just with tones, chord changes, adagios.... Great composer, whether they be from the classical age or from 20th century classic pop, have made it a little easier for lovers by articulating those intense emotions. Surely one of the greatest gifts of and to mankind, music can bring back the past--that nostalgia, that first kiss. Sometimes when I hear a pop song of my youth I am transported back to when I first heard it--so, maybe we don't live only once--maybe that's the illusion. Maybe music and other arts make us immortal, in a sense. I've heard that the poetry of ancient times was always accompanied by musical instrument--a simple lute or percussion. Tender, meticulously composed poem.
2015-08-11