Michael Maxwell Steer Biography
Michæl Maxwell Steer is a composer, writer, producer, lecturer. Having written music for over hundred drama programmes for BBC radio & tv, he became a BBCr3 music producer and then turned to writing. He then wrote 20 major music drama programmes for BBCr3 Features before the department was closed in 1991. http: //msteer.co.uk/
In 1993 he and his family moved to Tisbury, Wiltshire where he now directs the Cherubim Music Trust http: //cherubimtrust.org/ and Cherubim Youth Music Festival.
He has written pœtry all his life, as a byproduct of writing lyrics and libretti for his own music, but has only recently sought to publish them.
Could I but spin a golden melody
from myself as a spider draws
her silken web, whose very flaws
make perfect records of her busy body.
...
When the everyday miracle, love, strikes
all the resonant chords within us chime
and even the tawdry ruts of likes and dislikes
dissolve into harmonies of rhyme.
...
The priest withdraws to the chancel, attended by acolytes
and followed by worshippers - straggling throu the rough stone arch,
a hundred in all maybe: the old ones wearing black,
but also young urban families with anxious mothers in head-scarves,
...
In darkness is the light.
In the unseen, the form of what is to be.
Love blooms in a stony wasteland just as in a garden -
So God fills every heart held hollow for hir.
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