Fast Times

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. - Thoreau

one day the past and present met together

whilst waiting for the future to arrive, there was little left to say

so they turned the encounter into a venue of harmony

just jamming

beckoning to a later time

running before walking

letting the music do the talking

until it finally came knocking

Author's Note

"I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream." - Thoreau

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

I knew Mr. T flouted convention, but I did not know he was a flautist to boot. The idea of the past and the present jamming together is interesting, but psychologically, we are either in the past or the present. Ditto the future. Our problems stem from the fact that our attention is most of the time in either the past or the future, seldom in the present. Which is ironic, because the present is the only time that actually exists.

[Pete]

yes, he played a flute and adored music. he worked with his father making pencils. he wrote that, “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

god bless you j the b ... :)

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

This was a delightful read, Pete. Painting the abstracts of time in form and song. It's this imaginative purity in poetry that inspire others to do the same. Thank you for sharing your work.