Magpie-quintet poignant five-four waltz* bar
primes a mind for all that music concrete
buzzing at ears or drifting from afar
but then quietude seems incomplete.
Summer returns to recurrent question:
that missing motif foxtrotting silently,
seeping in from blue horizons again;
calliope sighing quicksand memory?
Ah but a bee will always steal the show
and the wind-sough through pine's waiting to go -
no destination ticket can touch-on.
Give me one more Magpie bar to drink-in;
let old calliopes lie aeolian;
bide high-tide fathom-five dream's tinkering.
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Five-four waltz -For example, the second movement of Tschaikowsky's 6th Symphony is written in 5/4 as a waltz.
Touch-on is how you use transport tickets electronically in Australia. Touch-on when you get on and sometimes and places touch-off when you get off.
Into the silence crept Keats' ...'Grecian Urn', the 'sensual ditties of no tone' and Bob Dylan's 'Tambourine Man's 'circus sands'. A hint of a beach and Shakespeare turns up. Something too of Ray Bradbury that way came.
In all honesty, another odd thing - this form of the sonnet - the Shakespearean couplet moved from the final lines to lines 9 and 10, was either invented or more likely happened upon and identified to me by a person at that time with the avatar of 'Inner Calamity' if I am remembering right. Only those with a bit of Wattpad history from 2013 /14 will know what I mean.
