written to the cello melody of
"Quartet for the End of Time" by Messiaen
0:03
whispers whispered…
slowly mourned traveling
the end of…
end of days
traveled…
waiting here…
1:17
listen, listen
hear this, end, playing
to us…
time…
hear, end of time
grace…
stilled hearts wait…
2:28
whispered, listen…
heaven listening…
waits…
singing, singing… slow
end is nigh…
wait…
3:06
mercy, mercy
angels
sleeping, sleep in
the end...
time... time... nears us…
nears…
nears…
3:56
souls lay, heaven
waits,
wait with us,
for us
to end…
end of time…
time…
time…
4:41
time… ends…
wait...
ends…
wait… time…
end…end…end…
time is ending…
time is ended…
time
has
ended…
5:58
breathing…
breathing…
awake yet…
not living…
time, slow, time…
passing…
6:41
end…
end…
Memories,
sweet memory, sweet…
ending, fading…
7:30
weary… hours…
late… time…
ends
Author notes
Painting: "The Cello Player- Vanbrugh String Quartet" by Grahan Elliott
The music selection is a short excerpt of the whole; performance from the DVD http://tinyurl.com/oybus
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usually I shy away from repetativeness, but the repetition works quite well and at 3:56 I thought it complete giving a chance for the reader to "end" it persay.
However, the idea of "end" moved me near tears
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I love this. The music is really wonderful for it. The cello can envoke a vast spectrum of emotions, that's why it's such a wonderful instrument...sigh...and I choose to play the violin.
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well, thanks, and to round-out your intellectual experience, the Quartet was written in (and had its premiere in) a Nazi stalag... so the composer really was staring bleakly into the end of time... (lucky the guards liked him and helped him out...) Why a quartet? He was captured with three musician friends, and that's all he had to work with...!
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Nice.
Foreshadowing in poetry is an excellent device, you used it well.
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well done
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wether this is a poem or a song it is still awesome and amazingly verse
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Beautiful, no doubt. Your effort and affection for this piece show very well in your unique layout. Very impressive! Such and interesting and not-so-common approach. Very emotive, melancholy, enlightening, and, in a strange way, almost hopeful. Well done!
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