The Glass Harmonica Poem by Theodore Enslin

The Glass Harmonica

Rating: 5.0


It snowed in far country
north and
beyond the trees.
As I went through the mirror
my breath froze
clouding it,
and they saw me no longer
in the villages of spring.
I walked alone
across level plains,
and my tracks disappeared
in the snow which went with me.
A wind rose
playing on harpstrings
and reeds.
There was nothing there, and my fingers
touched ice.
A music
a music
an echo of music—
sound not a sound
in the quiet north country—
the snow.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Seamus O Brian 13 November 2016

Haunting. The quiet of the snow laden world that might inhale you like the fog of a breath and leave no trace behind.

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M Asim Nehal 13 November 2016

Refreshing poem.Nicely thought n written.10

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Indira Renganathan 13 November 2016

A surrealistic imagination....snow or anything else of nature is music in different shades of scales and pitch... great- 10

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Edward Kofi Louis 13 November 2016

Beyond the trees! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 13 November 2016

Music makes one's soul strong enough to face the chaos of fhd world....

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