The Long Slow Sounds Of A Cello The Slow Long Draw On The Bow Poem by Sean Joyce

The long slow sound of a cello
The slow long draw of the bow
softly and long in the morning
the melody long and slow

Awake in the early morning
instruments all 'round your bed
A base and an oboe and cello
the music is inside your head

The strings and the woodwind
Together. Now just the oboes alone
So soft and so long in the morning
the melody long and slow

Drifting along with the music
neither awake nor asleep
A base and an oboe and cello
Sheet music all over the sheet

Saxophones move to the centre
An alto sax presumes to lead
Clarinets enter from nowhere
Clarinets always succeed

Drifting away now on grace notes
Oboes masquerading as trees
Harmonies high on a hillside
music conducting the breeze

Moments and minutes are muffled
Whiteouts among the daydreams
A semi-breve rest on a high note
blissfully followed by these..

The long slow sounds of a cello
the slow long draw on the bow
softly and long in the morning
the melody long and slow