An Arpeggio

An arpeggio of wayward notes

Plucked by fingers of clay

Chromatic chords of bleeding thought

Melt atonal black to grey

A lonely scale pours liquid morrows

Over kidnapped rhyme

Beauty and ugliness dance a dirge

Across a six string lyre

An adagio of timbred time

Escapes destiny's throes

Through a pentatonic pirouette

A thorn begets a rose

© Frecklewood 2014

Reviews

[Rene Salinas]

This writing is off well tempered manner. While we were inserted in musicality I thought I would throw that in. However the musical terminology serves to describe rather than to define musicality. In fact it felt to me like contructions of images using musical concepts. Writing notes on a sheet of music for the purpose of creating an enchanting piece ? Maybe.

How intriguing

Thankyou

[Frecklewood]

Thank you for your "temperament" of words! You have "hit the note" beautifully with your instrument of perception! Thank you for taking the time to read and comment.

[MomzillaNC]

An homage to language…

"timbred" isn't a word. "timber and time" maybe?

[W.k.kortas]

Actually, "timbre" is a musical term, used quie appropriately in this context.

[MomzillaNC]

I do know that it's a musical term, having studied music myself before changing my major to art. But, I've never seen it used in a past tense form. As far as I'm aware, "timbre" is not stated in tenses like a verb. That said, poetic license gives us leeway to bend the language to our need in writing.

[Frecklewood]

I appreciate that you took the time to read my poem. With that said, having studied music yourself I would have expected you to recognize the poetic licence that I exercised - as have the many music minded people to whom that poem was addressing. As to "an homage to language"... if I may, I believe that you should pay yours to grammar.