So I just love the idea of writing to the sounds of music, and I remembered that a couple years back I wrote something for class that was created while listening Duke Ellington’s “Single Petal of a Rose.” It’s not the greatest thing I’ve ever written, but I just love the song, and the idea that music can create poetry, and poetry can create music.
So if you’re down, throw on this incredible song, and read this little poem!
Duke Ellington’s Single Petal of a Rose
she’s just a ghost
asleep in photographs
buried deep in dreams
and dresser drawers
and in the night we’ll pretend
darkness knows nothing
of morning
but please, don’t fall asleep
for when you rise
tomorrow will sigh
we’ve been forgotten
and you will be gone
and I, just a dream
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