Ode to Anne-Sophie Mutter

[Hawkman]

Well, by poular request, here it is, not exactly great poetry but a little honest fun. It was inspired by her Album, Carmen-Fantasie (Deutsche Grammophon, 1993) (and it's cover).

When I think of violinists
Sophie Mutter springs to mind
with her haughty, savage beauty;
skills demonic, or divine.

For she plays the ‘Devil’s Trill’
even better than Old Nick
and the fact that she’s so clever,
it must really make him sick.

This dishy virtuoso might
perhaps be too Germanic
but should we ever chance to meet
I don’t think that I’d panic.

With her figure slim and willowy
and shoulder-flowing hair,
I’d happily invite her home
to beard me in my lair.

And there I’d let her play me
with her nimble-fingered art,
raising notes of passion
that in turn would thrill my heart.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Being as I am one of the founding members of ADMA (the Anti-Dangling Modifier Association), I have to ask of


With figure slim and willowy
and shoulder-flowing hair,
I’d

whether this is indeed an apt description of what I previously imagined to be your sterling manly self?

Apart from which of course I enjoyed your light-fingered tribute to Ms. M.

[Hawkman]

Well, I said it wasn't great poetry :) Light-fingered? where I come from this is a euphemism for describing someone as a thief! Do I need to call my lawyer? :D

Still, Thanks, (I think...) H

[PrinceMyshkin]

Well, I said it wasn't great poetry :) Light-fingered? where I come from this is a euphemism for describing someone as a thief! Do I need to call my lawyer? :D

Still, Thanks, (I think...) H

Of course! I ought to have remembered that, but it does have other, less frequently employed usages. Still, if you were going to steal, you could hardly do better than to steal from yourself.

[Bar22do]

Whatever! but it's pleasing to read and Mutter would be flzttered if she read your tribute to her art and beauty! Now I'm almost on the way, so more will come soon... in the meantime, take care sensuous Free Bird! I myself will use steel wings to fly... Bar

[Hawkman]

Of course! I ought to have remembered that, but it does have other, less frequently employed usages. Still, if you were going to steal, you could hardly do better than to steal from yourself.

My Prince, you have invented a new crime! Auto-Plagiarism. If convicted, the offender will be forced to listen to his own words until his brain melts and leaks out of his ears. So might the punishment fit the crime :D


Whatever! but it's pleasing to read and Mutter would be flattered if she read your tribute to her art and beauty! Now I'm almost on the way, so more will come soon... in the meantime, take care sensuous Free Bird! I myself will use steel wings to fly... Bar

Sweet Bar, One would hope so...

Safe trip and happy landings, keep safe and be well, dreamer of songs and singer of dreams.

H

[Jerrybaldy]

Hi H
in my ignorance of your use of beard as a verb I searched and found :
Verb 1. beard - go along the rim, like a beard around the chin;
All makes perfect sense now :D

I loved it and love your coupling of Germanic and panic. Is a rare old rhyme.
cheers
JB

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful poem!

I don't think the idiom beard the lion in his lair (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/beard+the+lion+in+his+lair) quite fits either.

When I read the line
to beard me in my lair. I thought of you as a Samson beguiled, only to be sheared later (as in tamed). How I reached that conclusion I haven't a clue. (I must be very tired).

Beard, v. - perhaps a new usage to define as above; or at worst a nonce word (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nonce+word) to be used and cast away.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tarradiddle) n 2. )
: tailor STATELY

[Hawkman]

I'd given up on this one! I don't know if there's a Pulitzer prize for poetry, but if there is, this one certainly won't be winning it. :D

Thanks, tailer and Jerrybaldy for sparing time and words for it ;)

Best, H

[Virgil]

Not a great poem, but I do think Mutter is a great violinist. :)