ENCORE AND ENCORE II

                           ENCORE
Still not sure, what I will do for an encore
another curtain call, so many Acts, Scenes
an anxious audience, viewing my fairy tale
life, thinking that I understand Wagner, his
Der Ring des Nibelungen, finally coming to
the end of Gotterdammerung, the twilight
of the God’s, my evening at the veil.

My life, a theatrical work, that Giambattista
Vico would describe as non-Cartesian that
followed an order of things: probabilities of
experience surprised by circumstances, the
axioms formed of abstract reflective musings
a follower of Socrates and Cicero, true ideas
and discovery of human wisdom’s foolishness.
Life does not proceed in reason’s straight line
geometry fails as it tries to describe my years.
Maybe music by Bela Bartok or Zoltan Kodaly
will work for an encore, brilliance of mind.  
(C) Jan G. Otterstrom F.
    February 16, 2023  

 

    

                           ENCORE II
Now near the end I feel like dancing
Bartok’s Romanian and Transylvanian
tunes give me another perspective, I will
play the 6th  Aprózó/Máruntel with melodies
from villages of Belényes and Nyagra  
Allegro in D and  A major themes with coda
beginning in Lydian then with Lydian Mixes
ending in the Dorian. Feelings expressed that
I do not belong here, my parents taught me
to search for more than there is or was.

The imagination on another plane, with an
horizon or horizons that are on the edge
of my view, vague and with my cataracts
even harder to see clearly, but it is ancient
dance with roots in humanity, people that
I have never met, yet may well meet them
after death, the pulse of earth and season’s
changes, life struggles, hope in hereafter.
(c) Jan G. Otterstrom F.    
February 16, 2023