Music to Another World


Listening to Rodigo's
Fantasy for a Gentleman,
Chopin's Fantasy in Polish Airs,

Saraste's Gypsy Airs, and
Zipoli's Ascension— and wheew
I'm in another world

above Nature's Realm soaring
to the Planets Jupiter & Neptune,
Water Music— Romance of the Pearl Fishers

Ah! Joy of Man's Desiring
Meditation on the Clock,
Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours
Artist's Life & Blue Danube Waltz

I'm at the Gates of Gold:
Call of the Mountain,
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.

Don't be tempted by the Devil's Trill
and the Romanian Rhapsody
but take the Love of My Life

to Nunley's Carousel, the Pastoral
in Summertime and we dance to
Ballet Music finding ourselves

in Botticelli's Triptych
the West Wind whisking us away
on the seashell of Aphrodite.

  — Peter Y. Chou
       Los Altos Hills, 7-6-2007


Ellen Bass & Cecilia Woloch Workshop:
"The List Poem: Writing Exercise"
(15 minutes writing exercise)
31st Foothill College Writers' Conference
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California



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