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  1. Julie A. Dickson

    Julie A. Dickson Well-Known Member

    Making music

    isn’t me
    not enough voice to sing
    harmony if someone better
    can drown me out

    you say anyone can learn
    to play, to read music but
    it’s as much another language
    as the Spanish I struggle to recall

    can’t play piano even though I tried,
    gave up on me -  the teacher after
    practicing a year on the old upright
    I inherited from my grandmother

    so I write the music in my head,
    ok the lyrics are what I write, not
    actual tunes, but sometimes I dream
    that I am playing and singing

    my fingers trip over piano keys, voice
    in my head is my own and the words
    flavor a melody worth hearing and
    I really am making music



    Julie A. Dickson
     
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  2. Lance Jencks

    Lance Jencks Member

    Thank you, Julie!
    From time to time I write a song—
    always doggerel of one sort of another.
     
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