Remembering Music: Variations on a Poem 1

I’m exploring the idea of playing with using a single poem, as told in different formats. I wrote this as part of a weekly writing prompt — which is connected to a National Writing Project writing marathon underway in New Orleans called Finding Your Muse — and I wondered how the poem would look/hear/read through the lens of different media.

So today, I present the poem as text only. Tomorrow, I will try something else with the poem.

Remembering Music:

Remembering melodies buried deep

notes and stories mingled together with harmonies

echoing out beneath street corner lights;

Remembering Music:

Remembering me, miles away,

with headphones slotted into spinning discs,

the map to a musical adventure moving into

the landscape of Louisiana;

Remembering Music:

Remembering New Orleans in syncopated rhythms

and rich architecture of sounds,

crafting the heartbeat ambiance of jazz,

the pulse of America becoming the soundtrack

of a nation finding itself;

Remembering Music

Peace (in the variations on a theme),
Kevin