All of you know that LongShortStories is all about fostering the short story form. But I am going to make an exception for an exceptional woman who recently celebrated her 90th birthday. On that exceptional day with this exceptional woman, she gave me two poems that she wrote. I want to share them with you.

Marjorie Hedenberg has never used a computer.

Marjorie Hedenberg is a brilliant classical pianist, organist, and vocalist.

Marjorie Hedenberg, I’m proud to say, is my mom.

To Music

 

 

The sparkling facets of my Muse

Serve to ignite its tender fuse,

Exploding in a tome of tune

Crescendos reaching to high noon!

 

And as I work to re-create,

Assimilate, and imitate

The notes left as our legacy,

I enter realms of privacy:

 

The dreamy depths of rhymthic thought

In soul-inspired cadence caught,

Now surge into my fingertips

Or cascade forth from willing lips.

 

The music seems from unknown spheres

As it descends upon my ears;

It leaves me limp with humble praise

As it inspires with every phrase.

 

How blest am I to know the sound,

The harmony of life I’ve found;

Composers may have left our earth,

But I perform in their re-birth.

 

 

Visions

 

 

I am a dreamer

Whose perfect model

Leads me through

Kaleidoscopic views

Until, alighting

On some satisfying thing,

I close my wings.

 

I am a schemer

Whose dim-lit path

Would conjure up

A misty scene,

All figured with

The thoughts of things

That bear upon my mind.

 

I’m a redeemer

Recalling back

Those precious notes

In limbo almost lost,

But now preserved

To warm my memory

In timeless rhymthic pulse.

 

And so my Muse shall never end

As I the lilting tonals tend;

The world may softening solace find

In concords of great music’s mind!

 

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