My Life In Poetry

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Category: Music

  • One Couple’s Castle

    In a Germanic castle, in a far away land,Horns were heard trumpeting, so rich and so grand. The King was running back and forth on the court,Happy to be playing such a fine regal sport. The Queen was sitting by her two windowsills,painting the landscape beyond the Green hills. Around the moat, the castle cat…

  • Favorite Chimes

    My favorite church bells are those that chimeIn the white gloved hands of instrument ringers,Keeping up in rhythm and musical time,Often accompanied by silken robed singers. Outside the steeple church bells pealCalling the congregation to enter.But the handbells playing inside revealChurch music’s greatest representor. The music I hear from these bells of brass,From the moment…