Mozart in Love

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BobBradshaw
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Mozart in Love

#1 Post by BobBradshaw » 16 Mar 2021, 09:28

Mozart In Love


    Stanzi-Marini, you're alone,
    pregnant again, swollen
    like a pomegranate

    while my days are spent
    surrounded by empty praises
    --too often my only payment.

    I would trade the luxury
    of these salons in a second
    for the dusty streets
    of Vienna.

    Letters are not enough...
    I long for you to send kisses 
    flying like glossy starlings
    my way.

    I would wait all night
    for a wild fluttering of wings
    to descend into my room,

    my shutters thrown open.

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Re: Mozart in Love

#2 Post by meenas17 » 16 Mar 2021, 15:11

Love well expressed.
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Re: Mozart in Love

#3 Post by BobBradshaw » 23 Mar 2021, 02:13

Thank you... glad you liked it.

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Re: Mozart in Love

#4 Post by Billy » 23 Mar 2021, 06:31

Yes, felt this all the way through.

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Re: Mozart in Love

#5 Post by BobBradshaw » 24 Mar 2021, 02:16

It’s based on a letter by Mozart, especially the close.

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Re: Mozart in Love

#6 Post by BobBradshaw » 24 Mar 2021, 02:25

Here’s part of Mozart’s delightful letter:

PS. — while I was writing the last page, tear after tear fell on the paper. But I must cheer up — catch — An astonishing number of kisses are flying about — The deuce! — I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha!… I have just caught three — They are delicious… I kiss you millions of times.

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