Thursday, September 17, 2015

with graceful charms of plucking

                                                                                             Attribution: Etan Tal
Image: A Female Harpist full of Concentration  (here)

Slow lingering sounds
been around since ancient times
Floated leisurely by

Harp's magical strains
With graceful charms of plucking
Nero unperturbed

Smiling mockingly
Mesmerized by the flames but
birds hurriedly flew

For Chev's CARPE DIEM #820 -  harp  and
ABHRA's at d'Verse's OpenLinkNight#156


15 comments:

  1. Those strings sure were music to the ears of many and scared many birds

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  2. Lovely picture of a wonderfully sounding instrument, Good to read Hank.
    Yvonne.

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  3. String intruments have always been my favourite - I like the contrast of soothing music with Nero....

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  4. I like the sounds of harp's magical strains ~

    Grace

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  5. A fascinating take on the prompt Hank - Bastet

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  6. Its like the picture came alive with your magical lines :D
    Beautifully captured :D

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  7. It's a winsome, hypnotic sound, that's for sure. You convey so much in just a few short lines - well done!

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  8. How wonderfully you evoke the sound of the harp and the work of the harpist. How true in the midst of beauty, we also become mesmerized by the ugly or frightening. Spencer is Kanzensakura

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  9. I love the musicality in this poem, Hank!

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  10. So descriptive of harp music, as if I was listening to it ;)

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  11. Oh the fLOW..
    in music.. in dance
    in paint.. in all
    ART that Lives
    when the World
    is all as ART
    and the
    rest
    just
    fades
    away into
    beautiful
    of OBLIViON'S TRUTH..:)

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  12. Beautiful. I can hear the music in your words.

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  13. The music of the strings always so soothing

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