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Musical Intuition
There’s a sense of beauty
in the stairways between the notes
intervals of logic
to be ascended and descended
in ever-complex simplicity
pointe-shoe dance steps
across silken ladders
twinkling against each other
star-breezed and nimble-fingered
in increasing ecstasy
inscribed, dotted and crotcheted
leading upwards to heaven
Bach saw it, intuitively
as snowflakes know to dance,
star-patterned ballerinas
drifting in white tutus
blanketing cathedral spires
or simply floating
kissing the listening earth
melting into us
© Johnmichael Simon
2011
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