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Make Music with Your Life

Bob O’Meally wrote this poem. As I read it, it reminded me whatever I choose in life, it is  music. I am grateful for creative spaces as a learner and teacher. They provide music in my life.

I left the poem on the left margin to stress the way the poet formatted the poem.

Make music with your life
a
jagged
silver tune
cuts every deepday madness
Into jewels     that you wear
Carry 16 bars of old blues
wit/you
everywhere you go
walk thru azure sadness
howlin’
Like a guitar player

About ivonprefontaine

I have been an educator for almost 20 years. Prior to that, I worked in private industry for 15 years, then returned to university to earn my education degree. For the past 11 years, I have been a co-creator of learning in a unique, progressive, alternative educational school of choice. Currently, I am engaged in a doctoral program at Gonzaga University in Spokane. A main theme in my learning there has been the roles of systems thinking, complexity theory, and organizational theory, and how they apply to education generally and the learning environment I share with students, parents, and colleagues.

20 Responses »

  1. A lovely way to live, and expressed so well in so few words. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. Life, with is many rhythms, is musical. I love it! Great post, Ivon! Thanks for sharing! :D

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  3. Congratulations and Welcome to the Ligo Circle of Appreciation! Keep up the good work… http://wp.me/p27eXb-bo

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  4. Gut geschrieben.
    Liebe Grüsse von uns.
    Wolfgang

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  5. Thanks for posting this Ivon, it is a beautiful poem. When I read it I remembered a poem I was taught at secondary school (many years ago!) which remains for me the most powerful statement of the effect of music. The poem was For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin (it is here if you want to read it http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/philip-larkin/for-sidney-bechet/).

    It contains the line “On me your voice falls as they say love, like an enormous yes.” Larkin’s tribute to the power of New Orleans jazz.

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