Paris PhotoPoems Series, #4 “Music at Shakespeare & Company”
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Paris : PhotoPoem # 4 : “Music at Shakespeare & Company”
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“Music Inside the Books”
inside
a second generation
literary bastion
quartered in an ancient gallic city
across time’s enduring symbol
notre dame
prayed the flowing seine
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piano-classic played
stroked by a passers-bye-public
keys touched, kissed
like flowers bent down to the dew
pulling strings, sounds, of wonderment
conversing replies to any country’s words
joining forgotten inner movements
flipped like pages soft as the air
in the fertile arts of paris
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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dVersePoets
Prompt
today’s photopoem is linked to dversepoets’ prompt from Victoria Slotto‘s fine post, Meeting the Bar: Literary Allusion
“A literary allusion in poetry is, simply put, a reference to another literary work. This can encompass sources such as mythology, the Bible, performance art, a novel, or, of course, another poem. Think of it as a sort of hypertext, linking the reader to another piece of literature, art, or any form of creative expression. Examples of literary allusion also include ekphrasis and response poetry. You are no doubt familiar with ekphrasis, when a work of visual art serves as the inspiration for a poem. A response poem is written, as it implies, in response to another poet, a sort of answering-back.”
she offers excellent examples, including from robert frost, images, and several other interesting pieces
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Shakespeare and Company
though not an exact fit, my own poem is a response in a row of literary artistic impulses, and when doesn’t that happen? 😉
coming across and entering the history filled rooms of shakespeare and company, created by sylvia beach, and continued by george whitman (after WWII in 1951, after sylvia chose to close her store than to sell a final copy “finnegan’s wake” to the nazis), the stacks and rows of cleanly lined books, whisper-searched by visitors in english and french, rushed like an opening of time’s secrets into sheila and myself
the cloth book-bags (or for otherwise) for sale sport a great saying
“Be Not Inhospitable to Strangers, Lest They Be Angels in Disguise”
paris, unlike most american cities, still abounds with small sprawling physical bookstores, visible on almost every few blocks, and often filled with browsers
small wood ladders lean against the book-lined walls for reaching upper shelves, and a winding narrow staircase leads to an upstairs filled with more books, old chairs, a room with a window view of notre dame, and even a nook plastered with notes about children’s books
and as we rose into the second level, music soft as the air surrounding the seine shifted and mixed our literary expectations deeper into the arts
a young man, face away from us, intent on his sheet music, moved his body into the intonations his fingers found along an old piano’s keys
i sat on a bench behind him, opened my iphone to my notes app, and let myself respond the waves of sound dancing with the words also preserved on pages
though the oral tradition had a power to move our ancestors, and still does of course to today, without the placement of symbols of those spoken words and heard sounds, onto paper, or even digital form, sharing our past(s) into our present, to create our futures, would be much less rich
the existence, and continuance, of all our artistic traditions is my favored road –
and paris, like yoga with the body and mind, does a fantastic job of this, 😉
adan
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Paris PhotoPoem Posts
Paris : PhotoPoem # 1 : “Paris, a View from Starbucks”
Paris : PhotoPoem # 2 : “At the Quai of Notre Dame”
Paris : PhotoPoem # 3 : “Big Treats on Little Streets”
Paris : PhotoPoem # 4 : “Music at Shakespeare & Company”
Paris : PhotoPoem # 5 : “The Tuileries” With Photo-Essay
Paris : PhotoPoem # 6 : “Monet & Renoir at the Orangerie, Paris”
Paris : PhotoPoem # 7 : “Luxembourg Gardens” With Photo-Essay
Paris : PhotoPoem # 8 : “Au Revoir Paris, Hellooo Paris in Memories”
PhotoPoem: “Passages in Moments”
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blessings everyone 😉
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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