Lover’s Dirge

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Lover’s Dirge

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my despair is vibrant ‘neath the drawn bow
as chords of anguish resonate pained and low
my bent being reverberates a suffered thrum
regret plucks strung memories as teardrops flow

shadows slink in this dark’ning room
‘cross cold silk curtains soaked with gloom
echoes of a lover’s dirge enflame my sorrow
a refrain of grief in this gilded tomb

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rob kistner © 2019

 

 

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  • 24 thoughts on “Lover’s Dirge”

    1. Where the music of sad songs and lost love meet. Your words match the photo perfectly Rob. Captivating, heart wrenching and beautiful all in one. Lovely writing as always! So glad you joined us this week Rob!

    2. Although the cello is a sad sounding instrument, I play it. I love
      “La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid. No. 6, Op. 30” by Boccherini – a lovely and lilting bit of music that puts happy in your step. It took me two months to learn to play it and I also play it on the violin. Although this is a very sad and broken picture.

      1. I LOVE th cello Toni! Cello can conjure forth gorgeously melancholy emotions. It is doing this, for me, when the cello is at its very best. This photo, as I see it, was the cello in it’s most heavy and mournful essence — which I love. Cello, for me, can call forth greater sadness than the violin — because of it’s capacity for guttural depth.

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