Cellos In The Morning Poem by Sean Joyce

Cellos In The Morning

Rating: 4.8


The long slow sound of a cello
The slow long draw of the bow
softly and long in the morning
the melody long and slow

Awake in the early morning
instruments all 'round your bed
A base and an oboe and cello
the music is inside your head

The strings and the woodwind
Together. Now just the oboes alone
So soft and so long in the morning
the melody long and slow

Drifting along with the music
neither awake nor asleep
A base and an oboe and cello
Sheet music all over the sheet

Saxophones move to the centre
An alto sax presumes to lead
Clarinets enter from nowhere
Clarinets always succeed

Drifting away now on grace notes
Oboes masquerading as trees
Harmonies high on a hillside
music conducting the breeze

Moments and minutes are muffled
Whiteouts among the daydreams
A semibreve rest on a high note
blissfully followed by these..

The long slow sounds of a cello
the slow long draw on the bow
softly and long in the morning
the melody long and slow

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Duncan Wyllie 05 February 2006

Dear Sean, this is yet another Gem my favourite line: 'A semibreve rest on a high note' Just caught me somehow.Great work from you AGAIN! Love Duncan Have you heard Karl Jenkins..A Mass For Peace..Stunning!

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Kelly Moy 25 January 2006

i thought it was about sponges

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Joseph Daly 13 December 2005

I am trying to think of what piece of music this could be. It certainly sounds like a strange ensemble. This is good Sean but I think that the first stanza is a rather awkward read: 'Long, slow', ' slow, long' and 'softly and long'. it doesn't work for me. But The rest is good. The cello is the nearest musical instrument to the human voice, in range, thus it makes an interesting theme for a poem.

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Sean Joyce

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