THE OPERA

Wishing you all health, happiness, peace and better in 2022. Here is a poem I wrote many moons ago. I would, of course, LOVE to hear how it touches you. The photo is available in my ETSY store.

photo by, Marisa Salisbury

THE OPERA

BY, Marisa Salisbury

The crickets chirp, raising to soprano crescendo

Enter the birds in harmonious song

Their beating wings and fluttering feathers

Like soft percussion of the timpani

The frogs croaking in baritone splendor

As a soft

Breeze

Whistles in through reeds and branches

Her soft song of love,

Of patience

To awaken the tenor

Like a bear rising from his winter slumber

He raises his arms

Turns to the audience of a redwood forest

And bellows his notes

Then…

Silence

Slowly, all turn to face the east

As the sun BURSTS through the sky like a crashing symbol

And all creation sings…

IT HAS BEGUN…IT IS DAY!…IT IS A GLORIOUS NEW DAY!

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