Violin-Cases Poem by Yiorgos Christodoulides

Violin-Cases

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Instruments are but our need
to hear something else than our stupid voices.

Yet through the sounds of the violin
you get to grasp the meaning of silence
and death.

Violinists should have been dwarfs;
once dead, we’d bury them in their violin cases.

Violin-Cases
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
a poem on a tragic life of many violinists. It was written in 1995. A street violinist making his living on the streets was the reason.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Fabrizio Frosini 06 June 2015

Hi Yorgos, I can't find your poem 'funny' (*) , I regard it to be a deep thought - through a ''violin key'' - on the significance of life and death. Thanks for sharing such a meditation. I've really appreciated it. (*) such a term had been used by a reader also to 'describe' my poem ''Ashen hair''.. even though I had posted a note informing that I wrote that poem as a tribute to Celan's Todesfuge..!

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thanks a lot Fabrizio. Poetry is a deep sensation.

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thanks a lot Fabrizio.However i don't like to talk about my poems. I don't like to analyze. When you analyze you lost the sensation.And poetry is a deep sensation.

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Kelly Kurt 05 June 2015

Funny. What do you think of street mimes?

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