The Music In Me. Poem by Michael Walker
The Music In Me.
I could not learn to play the piano at high school
nor any wind or string instruments-no strings attached-
and my voice never had the range of a soloist
but rather the soft sounds of a choir singer.
I did not care for the classical composers
whose music was all that we were taught:
Mozart's symphonies, Beethoven's sonatas,
J.S. Bach's cantatas; their German genius passed me by.
-No, my talent was knowing the music I liked
as a teenager, when Johnny Cash's 'Teenage Queen'
was played often on radio and Jim Reeves sang in warm tones
'He'll Have To Go' to a woman, on the phone.
In 1975 I was taken by Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey',
a ballad about a tree grown tall but a love lost in spring.
Critics said 'too sentimental and romantic' but not true:
I had good karaoke nights singing Stevie Wonder's smooth
' I Just Called To Say I Love You'.
-25 January 2020.
I could get by in karaoke by wearing the right suit, miming the actual singer and adding my own vocals in the pauses. It was a lot of fun.
My music tastes have not changed. I never go to opera or a classical music concert.
Music has many a genre as any other field of art. Talent too shows itself in many ways, There is no one way rise Nor one way things to size. This shows up in your poem.
never...a soloist...but rather the soft sounds of a choir singer. I had good karaoke nights singing Stevie Wonder's smooth ' I Just Called To Say I Love You'.... //.... Through this lovely piece of poetry, you have allowed the reader to look into your latent talent for music and the way you have engaged yourself in classical or otherwise in popular music. Thanks, Michael.
Thanks for reading and reflecting on music. Pop music gives me great joy.I think I have talent for listening to songs and evaluating them.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/19/2024 6:41:32 PM # 1.0.0.1119
beautiful taste of music; heart felt expression of music; superb writings. I'm also fond of music though I'm not familiar to western music. Yeah truly I like native classical music and folk songs dig my heart deeply. Mystical and metaphysical lyrics cuddle me very much. Music the true medicine of wounded heart it's panacea of lonesome life