It is the scampering energy
Whiskeyed almost
That entwines both clef roman
And ancient climes.
Delirium
à la française
Fleet footed and propulsive
Swirls around his music making.
The lava flows
‘du metal, du metal’
coursing across centuries
and metrical miles.
A life force:
Bounteous
Elastic
Febrile.
Berlioz
Stamps his foot
And we enjoin
Swirling beneath the yin and yang
Of his elongated sighs
Part Sicilian, part Patrician smile.
Energy and desire
The mercurial and the deliberative
Trace their laurelled filigree
Around his soft hair
His craggy face and plangent eyes:
Unfinished happiness marks him with its pride.
Patterns in contestation
Like so many will o the wisps
Foretell the declension
The phases of regret
The parley of enjoyment
The brewful snatch of highland fires:
Both source and spectre
He is a Cassandra
Made for latter times
The strong willed prophet
So dazzlingly near
The ache of paradise
Gar Jones – February 2014
Whiskeyed almost
That entwines both clef roman
And ancient climes.
Delirium
à la française
Fleet footed and propulsive
Swirls around his music making.
The lava flows
‘du metal, du metal’
coursing across centuries
and metrical miles.
A life force:
Bounteous
Elastic
Febrile.
Berlioz
Stamps his foot
And we enjoin
Swirling beneath the yin and yang
Of his elongated sighs
Part Sicilian, part Patrician smile.
Energy and desire
The mercurial and the deliberative
Trace their laurelled filigree
Around his soft hair
His craggy face and plangent eyes:
Unfinished happiness marks him with its pride.
Patterns in contestation
Like so many will o the wisps
Foretell the declension
The phases of regret
The parley of enjoyment
The brewful snatch of highland fires:
Both source and spectre
He is a Cassandra
Made for latter times
The strong willed prophet
So dazzlingly near
The ache of paradise
Gar Jones – February 2014