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Blessings of Music

// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //

Appreciating an amazing artform: allegro, andante, or adagio -
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms: beautiful berceuse, ballad, and bolero
Classical concertos and Christmas chorales crescendo concordantly
Dancers delight to dizzying drums and delectable dynamics
Ensemble eloquently emotes euphonic etudes and elegies
Flautist fluttertongues flute in frenzied fantasia or fantastic fugue
Guitar gallivants through gavotte, graced by glockenspiel glissandos
Heavenly hymns, happily harmonized, hearkening hearty hallelujahs
Improvising instruments inspiring in impromptu inventions,
Jovial jazz juxtaposition of jubilant, jamming jitterbugs
Kalimba keeps count as keyboardist kinetically caresses keys
Love song lullabys - lilting, legato lines of luxuriant, longing lyrics
Minuet melodies and madrigals marking mellifluous motifs
Nutcracker's necklace of nourishing notes: a nighttime nocturne
Orchestra's opulent overture opus, oratorio's operatic octet
Pianist plays presto pianissimo pitches in pulsing pizzicato perfection
Quartets and quintets on a quest for quality quiescent quarter notes
Romantic rhapsody rhythms resonate as rock 'n roll reverberates
Symphonies and sonatas send spine shivers, saxophone solos soar
Tenor troubadours tremolo in tempo as trumpet thrills with trills
Utopia of unassuming ukuleles unwinding in unison
Voluptuous violin vibrato, virtuoso vocalist, vivace vintage vibraphone
Well-tempered woodwinds wield wonderful waltzes worth whistling
Xylophone eXudes eXcitement in eXquisite eXtemporaneity
Yearning for youthfulness, you yodel "Yesterday"
Zesty zither anyone?

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Beata Agustin Date: 8/18/2020 9:06:00 PM Congrats! Thanks for sharing your blessings. God bless you. I likewise delight in the way you acquainted me with music's fundamentals and its finest. Login to Reply John Watt Date: 8/18/2020 9:15:00 PM Beata, thank you for sponsoring your 2nd contest, and making it such an uplifting opportunity to consider life's blessings. Thank you also for esteeming my entry. God bless you this week ~ John

Eve Roper Date: 8/18/2020 8:59:00 PM Wow!Fantastic job adding alterations with you lovely poem. Congratulations on your awesome win. Eve Login to Reply John Watt Date: 8/18/2020 9:16:00 PM Thank you my friend for the congrats and the greatly appreciated words of kindness. You are a blessing ~ John

Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/24/2020 4:25:00 PM OMG, you even did it with alliteration. Wow, John. What an amazing way to take the challenge!! Login to Reply John Watt Date: 7/24/2020 5:07:00 PM Thanks, my friend. It's my first abecedarian poem; I figured I'd better start with something I know about and love, like music. I appreciate the uplifting words.

Michelle Faulkner Date: 7/23/2020 7:56:00 PM You clearly have a musician's ear, I am dazzled by your vernacular (and I really like 'Nutcracker's necklace!) Best wishes for the contest! Login to Reply John Watt Date: 7/23/2020 8:02:00 PM I always appreciate your wonderful comments, my friend.

Caren Krutsinger Date: 7/23/2020 7:13:00 PM Well done. Every line spectacularly thought out and executed beautifully. Login to Reply John Watt Date: 7/23/2020 7:37:00 PM As always, you are too kind, Caren. Thank you!

Brandy Nicole Date: 7/23/2020 6:39:00 PM Music truly inspires me. I am actually listening to "the elegance of Pachelbel" "Elegy" right now as I as type this. At night, when all the world is quiet- I linger in the soft touch of music. My muse likes this. :) Sometimes she comes out to play. A wonderful tribute. :) Brandy Login to Reply John Watt Date: 7/23/2020 7:35:00 PM Thanks, Brandy! I'll give that Pachelbel piece a listen tonight. Glad you liked this.