A few short pieces

[Cabcere]

Hello all,
I've never posted in this section before, but I have written some random little thought pieces over the years, and I thought that maybe I would go ahead and post them here. Hope you enjoy (and I hate to say this, but please be gentle - like I said, I'm kind of new to all this ). Thanks!

Oh, and these pieces really aren't related at all - just random little...vignettes, I guess that's the word? Anyway, here goes! (All pieces copyright 2005 by me, Rebecca L. Leatherwood, unless otherwise noted.)

I. Releasing the Pedal
(Just a musing I came up with after playing piano one day.)

There is that one moment, at the end of a song played on the piano, where the last chord fades and you can't hear it any more, but you still hold down the damper pedal because somehow you know that what you just created was a kind of magic, and you don't want to let it go. But then, after a few seconds, you release the pedal and let the rest of the magic disappear into the air. It was already gone - that last chord vanished to human hearing long before you let go - but when you release the pedal, it brings a sense of finality crashing down on your shoulders and burrowing into your soul, like a musical suicide, like the death of something beautiful that is gone for good and can never be recaptured.


II. Wasp in Amber
(Poem in the form of a song (sort of, anyway) that I wrote about my inability to write songs. Funny how that works, eh? )

Sometimes I feel like a wasp in amber
Trapped inside beauty, trying to break free
Thoughts and dreams and visions whirling all around me
But I can't touch them, I can only see

[Chorus/refrain/whatever you want to call it:]
What if I could catch a dream
And bring it into my heart
Let it form and grow and thrive there
Release it as a work of art
Bring light to all the people
See the joy upon each face
But I'm just a wasp in amber
Frozen helplessly in space

Mutely I sit here watching
As the people go and come
I want so much to reach them
But I'm powerless and numb

[Chorus/refrain/whatever...]

Trapped inside this treasure
I've seen all there is to see
I know I'm but a measure
In an endless symphony
And the world will keep on turning
Long after I'm destroyed
But still I keep on yearning
To escape this amber void.

[C/r/w...]
I'm just a wasp in amber
Frozen helplessly in space.


III. Martyr to Beauty
(I'm not sure where this came from, but I'm pretty proud of it - I think it's one of my best pieces, but of course you all are free to disagree. )

A martyr to beauty
Music in her eyes
She falls and is trampled under
The crowds of people who despise
Love and peace and beauty -
"Get that out of here!
We want war and death and hunger,
Have we not yet made that clear?"

A martyr to beauty
On a faraway shore
He breathes his last for freedom
Dies, and knows no more
The generals and sergeants
Fly o'er safely in their planes
Will they remember him tomorrow?
Will his death now be in vain?

A martyr to beauty
On a sunlight-crowned hill
The music's getting softer now
The sun sinks lower still
But a brush across the heavens
Paints a message in the sky,
"For this eternal beauty,
These martyrs had to die.
Don't let them be forgotten
As you go about your day,
But remember what they gave up
To shed light upon your way."



OK, there you go. Hope these didn't make your eyes bleed too badly! Peace.

 

[vivalapopedge]

Those were really pretty I especially liked the part in the first one

but you still hold down the damper pedal because somehow you know that what you just created was a kind of magic, and you don't want to let it go. But then, after a few seconds, you release the pedal and let the rest of the magic disappear into the air.

That's really poetic and a great way to describe that moment after a great song ends

 

[cathou_u2]

Martyr to Beauty!!!

That one is REALLY BEAUTIFUL!!!

Cathxxx