A Songwriter Carries A Piano Across The Sierras, 1853

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A Songwriter Carries A Piano Across The Sierras, 1853

#1 Post by BobBradshaw » 28 Apr 2022, 21:43

A Songwriter Carries A Piano Across The Sierras, 1853

One woman tenderly left a crate of china
behind on the trail. She wept.
Another abandoned a pump organ.

One woman carried her husband
in tightly wrapped blankets,
determined he would see the Pacific.

I've left behind plows, barrels
of nails, iron pans, a stove.
But nothing could move me to let go

of that piano. Every day
as we cross the Sierras it heaves
and slides like surf breaking

on a damaged pier.
At dusk its wide grin gleams at me.
I love it as much as any woman.

Widowed I often think
of moments with my wife, her sweetness
like spring mists.

A love for songwriting
sustains me, the piano a mistress
who lives for my pleasure,

a passion that allows me
to go forward.

BobBradshaw
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Re: A Songwriter Carries A Piano Across The Sierras, 1853

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 04 May 2022, 03:18

Tweaked

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