Mrs. Galina B.

Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)



Mrs. Galina B.
Mrs. Galina Berezovsky is our Russian piano teacher here in Hollywood

Mrs. Galina, as everyone knows
Came here from Ukraine, in the land of the snows.
She came here with manuscripts, folios, scores
She got off the plane and she took them indoors.
She set them up neatly by piano and wall
Ready as needed to teach to us all.
Mrs. Galina, I'm happy to say
Came here from Ukraine to teach us to play.

Mrs. Galina, we're all well aware
Will make you sit straight with your wrists in the air,
And fingers extended, that's what she will teach
Over the keys and show you to reach
The chords and the scales in fine repetition
And classical pieces for your erudition.
Yes, Mrs Galina she sits there all day
She came here from Ukraine to teach us to play.

Mrs. Galina, we thank her each time
We hear the sweet notes of a willowing line
From the score of a master we love to recall
Pouring out from a piano in parlor or hall.
We judge the dynamics, we know when its right
We can tell when the tempo is sloppy or tight.
And the reason we do, I'm so happy to say
Is that Mrs. Galina has taught us to play.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on April 30, 2012

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Scheme XX AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD XXCCHHDD
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,082
Words 216
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 8, 8, 8

Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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