Alpine Symphony

Music in the air

I’m holidaying in the Alps with family. I told my parents that we were going to write a group poem for this blog and everyone had to compose one verse each. My mum dutifully donated a verse which sadly has been discarded (for now!) My dad couldn’t produce a verse but spoke of being inspired by a piece of music, The Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss. My dad is fluent in the language of music! Listening to my dad describe how the music illustrated the glorious views we were gazing upon gave me fresh inspiration to write about the relationship of music and the beauty of nature.

Alpine Symphony

 

I hear the Alpine Symphony

Playing in the breeze

I see the dancing notes

In between the trees

Melodious and fearless

Depicting valleys and peaks

It surely takes my breath away

I can barely speak.

 

Enthralled by all this beauty

God made and from the mind of man

Blending in a perfect marriage

Could this be the Creator’s plan?

The backdrop of our inspiration

The soundtrack of the natural world

We leave our indelible impression

A new delightful dawn we herald.

 

What partnership divine

Harmonious and pure

We will not be the same

As we were before

The spectacle of earth and sound

Of operatic proportions

We compose of the lustrous sights

A symphonic poetry in motion.