Tickled Ivories

Beauty and music are not mere traits and exceptions. They are the rule and character. It is the exception that we see and hear. - Thoreau

Tickled Ivories Painting by Virgil Stephens

tickled ivories

giggling synthesizer

soft, swaying bass

tap dancing percussion

singing canaries

hugging maternally

joyously laughing and dancing

eternally

Author's Note

"A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Patricia Wedel]

dearest Pete.. this is my favorite "Tickle" poem of yours. by far... it blends with my Mother's Gif to me of a Piano with lessons as a child.. and Concerts attended. softly, Pat

[MCS]

Thank you Pete, this is an excellent read to end my crazy day.