JEU DE SONS

Silver trumpets high and clear
golden trumpets warm and pure
violins of silky voice
'cello tones of velvet grace
oboe chords in hollow notes
piccolo's quick-gleaming motes
English horn of fuller sound
bassoon-speech, dark, deep and round
harp's plucked language heard in heaven
sweet celesta faery-given
honeyed scales of clarinet
rushing flute's mad silver glut
dim recorder's ancient airs
breathing pan pipes soothing cares.

Snare drums beating rhythmically
cymbals meeting icily
triangle trills tinglingly--
do we have a symphony?

~ Stanley ~

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