Crescendo
As Liszt enchants the concert hall
six critics sift through endless notes
ten listeners regret they left
piano lessons to their youth
while most observers chase his hands
which hypnotize by candlelight
- then yet another stunning sight:
a dancer answers rhythm's call
obeys exacting serenades
balletically delirious
now emblematic of our urge
to move as music toward the surge.
Crescendo © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
View this poem at AllPoetry.com
60 words. Surreal image prompt challenge (onlookers, piano keys like stairs around a head, a ballet dancer) - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2753844-8-poets-write-to-surreal-prompt
More about Franz Liszt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt
Submitted: June 28, 2020