CAN YOU NOT HEAR THE MUSIC?
Copyright 2012 Gordon Kuhn
Can you not hear the music?
It is everywhere!
It is in the trees,
The bushes,
The very rocks at my feet!
Joy complete!
Can you not hear the singing?
The very choir that sang to Mozart
Sings to thee!
So sublime, so gentle.
Then a rush,
Building, climbing, towering, higher and higher,
To softly hang there so high up, to slowly roll over and then
in a cascade
Like water leaping off a cliff
Caught in the wind
The bases join the sopranos
And held suspended
Spilling over a boundless leap
Sprays out in billowing tumult of beauty soaring there.
Can you not hear the laughter?
It surrounds you and me!
It is everywhere!
In the grass, the weeds,
The clouds, the worms crawling at my feet
It knows not defeat
Do you not hear the wonder of it all?
A million violins sing out at once!
High and lifting higher,
Then come the trombones,
Strong voiced, strong willed
And my heart climbs with the trumpet notes!
Then she falls, tumbles with joy back into the valley,
With a light flute just touching the highest cloud in the sky,
And slowly sliding down a rainbow
Gently brings my soul back to earth
To the joy
To the beginning again and again
Can you not hear the music? October 31, 2012
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 
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