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dVerse Poets Prosery

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
This evening I would like you to write a Prose piece which includes the line:
“Talk what you please of future spring and sun-warm’d sweet tomorrow.” – from the poem A Daughter of Eve by Christina Rossetti.
Please also include the dVerse link in your published piece.

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“Talk what you please of future spring and sun-warm’d sweet tomorrow”, but save a dream of winter for me. Bright blue clear skies with clouds brushed away by strong breezes, take my breath on a morning walk. Old skates now jostling over my well padded shoulder blades from layered sweaters and heavy coat, have been sharpened to dangerous blades. A shovel in my mittened hand, always ready to make short work of the frozen pond’s skiff from previous night’s snow, and I pause to take it in. An every day adventure; a simple, solitary respite inside a busy day of household chores. Scraping sounds of the spade pierce the pristine surroundings, and scatter a few crows previously resting silently on icy branches. I don the skates, secure long laces with bared hands, suddenly stiff from exposure. Then, awaited bliss as I begin to glide.

https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/11/prosery-when-it-comes-to-christina-rossetti/

A2Z Jazz

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

I never thought much about jazz music until I attended a small club with friends in Denver years ago. The second time I heard a live jazz band was the UNC jazz band where my daughter’s fiancé was playing the trumpet. Initially I thought jazz players ruined tunes I liked with all their variations and then seeing it live changed my mind.

This past year I have been delighted seeing and listening to my granddaughter performing jazz pieces on her alto saxophone. She is in the high school jazz band and a quartet plus marching band and orchestra. I love her solos and listening to her accomplished smooth renditions even though she has only been playing the sax for a year.

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