Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Mozart's Cry


The music plays inside my head
a waltz, a symphony, a song,
a hymn, a chorale, an opera perhaps
I don’t yet know precisely but
all in simultaneous eruption
plays, plays, plays
rages, ravages, pounds
within the slender membrane
of my skull
demanding, screaming, migraining
to escape, to be let out, to be set free
notes, chords, instruments clamor
at synapses
the noise strictly incoherent
flows through my veins, my arteries,
my discordant capillaries until it
bursts
the ends of my fingers,
smearing the sheet music red,
a glorious violence.


This poem is submitted for One Shot Wednesday hosted by One Stop Poetry. To see other poems, please visit the site. The links will be live at 4 p.m. Central time today.

Photograph: Music Notes Background by Vera Kratochvil via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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21 comments:

  1. Louise GallagherJanuary 4, 2011 at 7:34 AM

    What a symphony!

    What a song!

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  2. MaureenJanuary 4, 2011 at 8:54 AM

    This poem reminds me of a time I attended a Merce Cunningham performance to John Cage music. We had to listen through earphones. A few people, never before exposed to Cage, got up and left. The amazing thing was how it all worked.

    I also imagine this poem as a metaphor for a headache, the kind of migraines I get that leave me seeing red.

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  3. herbhalsteadJanuary 4, 2011 at 11:12 AM

    Glynn, this speaks to how I often feel during creative moments... excellent.

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  4. Maude LynnJanuary 4, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    This is incredible.

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  5. katdishJanuary 4, 2011 at 2:36 PM

    I've felt that before in many creative processes. You've captured it so well here.

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  6. HopeJanuary 4, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    a perfect description of an artist at work.
    loved it!

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2011 at 5:43 PM

    the birth of the music of mozart

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Can you feel the tingle?

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  9. hedgewitchJanuary 4, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    I'm terribly ignorant about classical music, but Mozart is among the few composers (along with Bach and Beethoven)I can identify by ear when I hear his work, and I feel that behind the intense and intricate order, there is indeed something like this poem going on. My own creative frenzies don't reach that peak, but I have words and not sounds to deal with. A fascinating poem in subject, that could lead in many directions other than the one I just described.

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  10. Brian MillerJanuary 4, 2011 at 8:58 PM

    to me this speaks of one lost in their art...or maybe inspired by another...sometimes songs do that with me...so reasonate they bring me to write...

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  11. BeachannyJanuary 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    Yeah, that is it! Felt it before I could walk, begged, pleaded for my piano. Feel incomplete without it. And when I play even now (not so accomplished as once I was) it's as though I leave it there on the keys..much different than my writing. Excellent write, writing my emotions there. Gay @beachanny

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  12. LindaJanuary 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    Magnificent Glynn!

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  13. AnonymousJanuary 5, 2011 at 3:28 AM

    Excellent interpretation of the struggles of possessing such genius qualities Glynn. The poem flies off the page like a string section about to burst into flames.

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  14. BubbaJanuary 5, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    Sounds like you've got a serious earworm, Glynn! (LOL!)

    Nice One Shot!

    (I dig Mozart too!)

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  15. gautami tripathyJanuary 5, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    Wonderful song within your mind!

    Here is my One Shot:
    musical whirlwind

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  16. Jenne' R. Andrews January 5, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    often so hard to convey what music does to us and for us, especially that good intense inner music-- beautiful! xxxj

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  17. ~*Michelle*~January 6, 2011 at 5:56 AM

    WOW! just WOW! This was amazing!

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  18. MarshyJanuary 6, 2011 at 9:07 AM

    whatever the medium i could so understand the screaming to get it out..before losing what goes on in the mid..very well said glynn..all the best pete

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  19. ClaudiaJanuary 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    you have no idea how much i can relate to this...love it

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  20. CorbieJanuary 7, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    Glynn, I can also relate. I think we are all creative and when we hit the high moment, like your symphony, we can hardly contain it. Thank you for sharing.

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  21. Steve IsaakJanuary 7, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    Chatty, fun work with some great phrasing (e.g., "glorious violence").

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