Nancy’s poetry (2023)

Piano #2: Why DO we spend so much time practicing?

by Nancy

What’s it FOR,
this working on pieces of music
hour after hour after hour?

It’s for me –
for being washed through
with great floods of color
and being tickled by moments of mastery;
for summoning and stretching
my commitment, my focus, my gifts;
for speaking my depths;

It’s for giving –
for filling the very air with blessing,
with moments of infinite tenderness,
power, protest, determination, balance,
lightness, joy, grace, clarity, simplicity;

It’s for all of us –
for our awe of form and beauty,
for the gift of listening with heart, body,
mind and spirit.

It is like touching Heaven
as if it were a taut cloth, wet,
causing it to “bleed through”,
bringing Heaven to Earth for a while

 

 

 

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by Nancy

This music is playing me
as much as I am playing it.
Only through me (or ONE of us)
can it find expression –
and only through IT
can I find expression –

There are definitely two “beings” here,
somehow –
It’s like kissing, or making love,
very slowly and whole-heartedly,
shaping the moment jointly,
not interested in boundaries
or in keeping separate –

As long as I allow it,
the music and I overlap,
intermingling so totally
that we are One –

It feels WONDERFUL!

(SO why don’t I do it more OFTEN?!)