The Madness of Love

In the Music

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The Writer's Cramp  (13+) Write the best story or poem in 24 hours or less and win 10K GPs! #333655 by Sophy

New Prompt:

You hear something in music. Maybe you're playing the instrument, or singing, listening to a band, or a CD. But you hear something that you never heard before; perhaps, something no one has heard before.

Personal associations abound for people hearing a particular piece of music - perhaps it invokes a memory or plays a heartstring. Whatever the case, write a FREE VERSE, NON-RHYMING POEM about what you hear in the music that no one else is hearing. Keep it to 40 lines or less ....

Final Moments in the Hospital

The trill warbles unheard at first
Until it grows and pounds the earth.
A crescendo of loud heart-beats
Within the faintest tease of song.

My knees are shaking with its rhythm.
My blood is racing against time.
Your voice is in the refrain I hear,
As I heed you calling me.

A cello's sweetness binds me fast.
Your tune lies on my parted lips.
I wet them now and gasp aloud;
The vibrating bass has dizzied me.

Is it the song of love's cruel melody?
I know you're gone; your bird of wing
Lifted higher than mine that day
When barren-scorched I stayed.

Tears twine my wrinkled cheeks,
They glide like skilled bowstrings,
Frolicking, I suppose, and yet,
For me ' their melody is sad.

Resin smoothes the gentle touch
Of fingers on such simple strings,
But my heart flutters with this song,
For I hear you calling me.

The beauty of the moment
Should not be fought against,
Yet, still I yearn to hear the end
Of the trill cascading down.

Your voice is in the tune I hear,
And I heed you calling me.
Yes, dear, I'm coming dear.
For I heed you calling me.


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