Oceans Life Music
The Poem
There is a poem associated with the symphony's movements.
The parts of this poem are published alongside the music.
However, in the below this poem is also published in its entirety.
Oceans...
... Dance
As a child
Dancing with the ocean
The ocean is a child
And it dances
Wave dance
The child matures?
The ocean remains a child
It dances
Oceans Dance
Wave Reflections...
The waves dance
They dance the oceans dance
The light reflects in the waves
The sea reflects the sunrays and the light
Light itself is dancing
We see reflections...
... as the sea decides to pass them on to us
... as the waves decide to pass them on to us
The reflections of the waves
Wave Reflections
Symphonic Whale Song...
Symphonic Whale Song
Poetry in a foreign, unknown language
Unearthly, soulful tones
Outlandish, mysterious words
Aquatic, oceanic poetry sung by
Ethereal giants
Singing grandiose graces of the oceans
Whale song
Sung from out of the deep sea
Concealed, deep sea, symphony
The Rhythm...
There is a rhythm in the oceans
Frogs, hippo's, the waves
All have their own rhythms
All blend together
The rhythms joyfully dancing in the oceans
Ocean rhythm, like breathing
Frog croaking the beat
The hippo's laugh in a constant rallentando
They slow down a little all the time!
The waves speed up and slow down, ever changing and ever the same
Dancing in joy
Meditation?
Breath?
Breathing the meditation of Mother Earth?
The heartbeat?
Earthbound longing for the deep
A symphony to breathe in their pace
To pace with them
To wave with the storms
To sink down in myself and
To be the poetry, the meditation
To learn to breathe
Moving gently, dancing and breathing, in the music
Moving with the seaweed, overwhelmed
Moving with the seagrass meadows
Delighted to be overwhelmed
The waters are The Rhythm
I am in The Rhythm
The waters are in The Rhythm
All is rhythm
All is music
All is breath
Breath and laughter
Laughing is breathing, the hippo's delightful laughter
Breath is life
Ocean Life
Oceans Life Music
Symphony for the Waters
Thnx for taking the time to read this poem !
The thoughts in this poem were with me since I can remember. But I only wrote them down in this form after writing the symphony. Perhaps I opened up to it at that point,
I always wrote poetry, song lyrics, haikus and so forth. While revising orchestration and other details of the Symphony for the Waters, in the spring of 2023, I was also thinking about how the piece began. And then this poem, surprisingly, presented itself to me. It sort of fell into my lap - perhaps I was ready to receive it.