Sometimes I feel the songs unfold
As restless movements of the unborn child
In the darkness of the womb.
Oh, solitude, you make sufficient room
To fashion from the embryo
The potent structures of our joy and sorrow.
Perhaps tomorrow
I shall feel the flutter of your music stirring,
My fingers moved to renovating.
Teddy bear teddy bear lend me your ear, a little creation is about to appear ;) the sweet music of love. nicely done.
Tom, this really got straight to my core: I'm having a really hard time trying to move my fingers on the keyboard (was diagnosed with Gillain-Barre Syndrome over 5 months ago and lost complete mobility of legs and arms) and have spent all this time nurturing the high expectation of recovering mobility. Before all this I was quite an accomplished guitar player and not being able to pluck those strings any more has beem a huge blow, so I felt the poem, perhaps only figuratively, talked passionately and with contagious conviction, about that stirring that will renovate the fingers into making music again. (Please don't reply to this, I read you are a bit too busy with comments and I see that have an actual flood of messages on the other poems I read, and quite deservingly so! Just wanted to let you know this one was quite inspiring and beautiful to me) .
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Sometimes I feel the songs unfold As restless movements of the unborn child In the darkness of the womb.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -I swear, Tom, you joke and pun around and then you sit down and create this stunning piece. And creation of a piece of art is like the creation of a life inside the womb... and this line- - - - - Perhaps tomorrow I shall feel the flutter of your music stirring, - - - - - - was the piece de resistance [spelling is purely phonetic] [ha- I googled the spelling and I've got it right except for punctuation- -yea for that brain cell of mine valiantly fighting on all alone in the battlefield of life]. Excellent excellent excellent poem, my friend. I know you don't care about ratings but I am going to give you a 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ and there's nothing you can do about it.... and this goes on my list of fav poems.
That's very kind of you, Susan. It's probably my mother's fault. We could always make each other laugh. My father was rather dour but very learned. So maybe that rubbed off on me too. People used to say American humour was different to ours but I think that's rubbish. I loved Frasier and Seinfeld and Some Like it Hot and Groundhog Day as much as our stuff, if not more and you and Pam and Wes etc are among my favourite writers in both your funny and serious moods.