rock!

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cooking, haiku, marmalade, Meatloaf, music, poetry, preserves, rock

On enjoying life

Making marmalade
Listening to MeatLoaf, loud
bitter sweet, rock on!

Music

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haiku, music, nature, poem, poetry, rain

Sitting in the car
overlooking stormy sea
rain’s synchopation

Ambience

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ambience, death, Handel, misery, music, thoughts

Just a passing thought.

Imagine the ambience in the house
as Handel composed
‘Dead March from Saul.’

Hark!

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christmas, concert, granddaughter, haiku, music, poem, poetry

School Christmas concert
Granddaughter  plays the trumpet
Hark all ye Heralds

 

Voice

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'Maria Callas', birds, Callas, haiku, music, opera, wren

little Jenny Wren
weighs only half a hiccup
voice of a Callas

Shakespeare rocks

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acting, burlesgue, haiku, music, playhouse, Shakespear, Shakespeare, TheGlobe, Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night at The Globe
Burlesque rather than bawdy
How come a rock band?

music

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guitar, haiku, music, nature, songbirds, summer, sun, weather

fine, blue sunny day
accompanied by songbirds
someone plays guitar

sublime 2

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cello, du pré, haiku, humour, life, music

(On entering a hedonistic streak)

Jacqueline du Pré
a bottle of decent red
and time to enjoy

 

Sublime

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bach, cello, classical, haiku, music, pleasure, Yo Yo Ma

Lifting of the heart
Amid daily distractions
Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach

sublime (2)

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bliss, cello, du pré, enjoyment, music, wine

Jacqueline du Pré
a bottle of decent red
and time to enjoy