My Poems: Original: Symphony: Gen

Title: Symphony
Fandom: Original
Poetic Form: Ottava rima
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 58
Lines: 8
For: Yahtzee - Aces
Notes: Inspired by that tumblr post which compares female orchestra conductors to witches showing off their new spells.
Prompt:

The instruments convened. Eclectic mix.
The elements assembled, picked with care.
New spell to be performed. Pyrectic tricks.
A symphony. An invocation bare.
The ears, attuned, await orectic fix.
The raised baton, the penetrating stare
the pregnant pause of gravid testatrix.
Anticipation grows, a silent dare.
And—whoosh!—raw electricity released!
The music and the magic spring unleashed!

Musical Mondays: Field's Nocturne No. 1

It's been more than a month since the last classical music post, so here's an update.

So far, my favourite has been Kodaly's Dances of Galanta. I have also liked Franck's Symphony in D minor and been impressed by Holst's The Planets. I am glad I listened to Elgar's Enigma Variations because of the joke in Good Omens about him and Liszt being the only composers in heaven.

Appreciation for and the nuances of most, however, have passed me by.

( The list )

I have, however, done another nocturne piece, inspired by the first in a set of the nocturnes by the father of nocturnes, John Field. It is chapter 11 of A Little Night Music called I do without an answer [Sherlock Holmes (ACD), Holmes/Watson, 1015, Hurt/comfort. Massage. A case frustrates Holmes. Watson helps.] And here's the nocturne. It's very sweet.

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