Ph: Mentor: My Uncle Ardean's Lost Chords Comments

Through your gift I discovered that music is dance An emotional language that lives as composite An intelligence melting your core And a harpist that plays your heart’s strings like a God, How I shudder to think this was all happenstance.   Beautiful lines! Yes, a gift received sometimes becomes a turning point in life! So I understand that there is music in your genes! Enjoyed your poem!

[some old and some new comments] ok, i read it. and i found no typos! ! yay! of course i am super-limited in music ability and knowledge. a 'chord'? ? spinal or electric? i CAN play happy birthday on the piano, but i only learned it a few years ago. i don't read music (without much struggle while learning HB and two other short songs i have 'forgotten' due to lack of practice): HB is good enough for me! i DID take a music appreciation course in high school. that's where i was when i heard of JFK's shooting. bri :) you are lucky to have music in your life and a talent for it. but you KNOW that. p.s. i just read L's comment. i agree about the 'superb structure', if by that she means the rhyme scheme, even though the rhymes are too far apart to impact ME much. are you still looking for the chord? ? check under the bed.

Very nice poem, Brian. Music, one of my favorite subjects, written about in a delightfully sentimental manner. I admire the superb structure of your poem, no easy feat.