UPON A WALTZ OF DISTANT BREATH

In its refined simplicity, Upon a Waltz of Distant Breath invites the reader to waltz with the ineffable—the spaces between breaths, the silences that carry the weight of everything unsaid.

A whisper, faint, that slips the air�"

Of something lost and close�"

It sways within the twilight’s care,

A breeze upon the rose.

The night becomes a breath withheld�"

A footfall soft, then gone�"

Each beat, a thought, so swiftly quelled,

Each silence�"hints of dawn.

And yet, it lingers, like a ghost,

A note of sorrowed grace�"

An echo of what haunts us most,

Now lost within its trace.

11.12.2024 ::

Author's Note

Note: 16 walzes, op. 39: no. 9 in D Minor
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dStP2VZwlMQ

Reviews

[Ern M. Yoshimoto]

it is wonderful ode to all that is ephemeral. indeed, everything is ephemeral, and perhaps it is life that is 'A whisper, faint, that slips the air'. but it is a poem about everything we cannot capture, cannot ever understand. there is so much mystery in life, which most people ignore. that we take time to consider the ineffable is certainly a meditative way to be.