Vasily Kandinsky – It’s Only Art. Or is it?

“Every work comes into being in the same way as the cosmos – by means of catastrophes… The creation of the work of art is the creation of the world.” – Vasily Kandinsky As I walked around the Guggenheim Museum today feeding my soul on the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky, I experienced once again the [...]

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Christmas Archangel

Small talk potluck smiles Clench my jaws tight Just like stage fright An hour of social delight In a less-traveled corner My weathered friend I finally gird myself With long laces Of furry boots Where are you going? You ask with sorrow A three-year-old Wingless Christmas archangel With unclouded eyes I’m going home Is all [...]

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Longing

Tangled breaths of water nymphs Waves’ incessant moans Intertwined in endless Ebbs and flows Nothing satisfies let me Stay let me go Neither food nor Sleep comfort wordless angsts As if words could Soothe nameless yearnings Yes but no And what if The heart longs for That which exists not Aches to give That which [...]

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Three Laments of Heloise – New Music for Chamber Orchestra

Queens Envied Me My Joys If Not With You, My Heart is Nowhere My Most Wretched Soul I am very excited to introduce my new composition for chamber orchestra entitled Three Laments of Heloise. The Laments were inspired by the Letters of Abelard and Heloise I read this spring. I was deeply moved by the [...]

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Skyline

Heaven or Earth? Day or night? Water or air? Neither Just the horizon Cradling the face Of stillness I walk blindly Knowing less Hearing anew Feeling Truly Unreservedly Barefacedly ©2008 Dosia McKay

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Cold Stone

Cold stone wrought iron Flow my tears Ancient dripping stalactites Coarse wood kneelers Silver goblets Marble fountain pen holders Deliver me from The city of rubber Fluorescent light And processed cheese Nameless bricklayers Of gothic cathedrals Rest my bones Celibate scribes Of the Dark Ages Blood of the martyrs Deliver me from Disposable words Drive [...]

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But If You Must Fly Away

But if you must fly away Spread your featherless wings Believing The meek shall inherit the Earth The sunbaked fields lie fallow Unbroken horses Wild with defiance Of unharnessed boys Away from home But men are made With blistery plows In Godforsaken lands Days into weeks Weeks into months Months into seasons Carcasses of dreams [...]

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Making Music Making Love

Several years ago I was in need of some mindless decompression and so I went to the movie theater to see a popular at that time chick flick The Devil Wears Prada. Perhaps the Prada story itself could serve as a topic for another post, but for now I would like to focus on a [...]

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Promise Me

Promise me That you will not outgrow Running barefoot In the summer rain When the world Spits out Its schizophrenic songs Listen to the nakedness Of your heart And dance till sunrise Promise me That you will not cower in the storm The hail will pound Till numbness Promise me you won’t let go Be [...]

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Mysteries

Mysteries are unpolished gems Unapprised treasures For a discerning collector incognito Everyone else Wants a piece of the pie But he deciphers The recipe for its fragrance Once a year the coveted flower Blooms in secret He will risk his life to find it Those who know everything Know nothing at all Those who know [...]

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