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Speaking of Karl's earlier works, I recalled the Opus 119 today for some reason!


Text:

The Crystalline Ship

And so the crystalline ship has sailed,
Where you feasted on the soul's hard bread,
With the winds in league
With the seas calm or gale
The crystalline ship must sail
Somewhere
You rested in the soul's long bed,
And dreamed you were alive
On the crystalline ship
With the fish and the birds
And the cook in the galley
Sings to her ears
That water is a three-edged sword,
One for the skin and one for the bone
And one for the spirit all alone,
Who is tempted to splash and thrash
The Pacific of your mind's distress
That the crystalline ship has sailed
Somewhere
You bested the sea and split the shell
With a three-edged sword
Of pain and smiles and a wondering blue,
And now launch a vessel found only in you
Left behind by the crystalline ship.



Performance:

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Text:

My Life, My Life

Thus moaned the soil:
My life, my life, my life,
A mass of desire
In a priestless church,
A smile of despair
In a cloud-choked face,
A gasp of adieu
In an unknelled box. 

Thus cried the fire:
My life, my life, my life,
Growing and thinking and warming,
Gilded and hated,
Warming and yearning and fading,
Useful and useless,
Fading and yearning and fading,
With a yearning heart.

Thus sighed the air:
My life, my life, my life,
A wave in a sea
With a too-far shore,
A clock in a world
With a time-free sky,
A grain in a dune
With a boundless mind.


Thus sang the sea:
My life, my life, my life,
Dreaming and birthing and storming,
Frozen and cobbled,
Storming and healing and playing,
Lovelorn and Love-filled,
Playing and healing and playing,
In the healing soul.


Performance:

[Karl Henning]

Enough with the Retrospection, Already

[Karl Henning]

I keep working on it, but the sense that what I've been doing is right is eluding me. My feeling, though, is to plough my way out to the final double-bar, and re-touch/repair when I've got the line complete.

As noted in the blog, I'm thinking of a different tack on the writing for guitar. I did make a start on that today, but mostly I discovered how to write out the rest of Simple Music, Opus 205, and that's now done, a good ten-minute piece. 

[Karl Henning]

but mostly I discovered how to write out the rest of Simple Music, Opus 205, and that's now done, a good ten-minute piece.

It's only MIDI:

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Simple Music and All

[Karl Henning]

As noted in the blog, I'm thinking of a different tack on the writing for guitar.

And (pending, of course, any notes Aaron might have, I finished today.

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At Ease, It May Be

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