Faces People Love
My brother touches music with his hands.
He slowly shapes the chords with gentle palms
and smoothes the rigid edges. With a nudge
of one brown finger, he imprints himself
in songs of lakes and forests, mountains, stars,
and he is suddenly a part of all
the things that are important. He creates
without a word, his legacy of sound
beginning with a single note. It rings
across the morning stillness of our house
and tells a thousand stories, molding earth
into a happy, tragic heaven for
an instant. Others come together then,
a symphony of possibilities,
my brother smiling, sculpting rhythms in
the images of faces, people, love.
The world will know my brother when he goes
as one would know the passing of a breeze:
one moment cool, refreshed, and filled with hope,
the next, an ache, an emptiness, a loss.
Font size:
Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 42 sec read
- 9 Views
Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQNRS |
---|---|
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 790 |
Words | 143 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Translation
Find a translation for this poem in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Faces People Love" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 18 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem/70797/faces-people-love>.
Discuss the poem Faces People Love with the community...
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In