<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: A bit of poesy (was OLD PIANO)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2">Cool. Goes into our St. Louis chapter newsletter ...<br /><br />Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /><br /> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr />Original message<br />From: "Annie Grieshop" <annie@allthingspiano.com> </annie@allthingspiano.com><br />To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br />Received: 5/25/2007 1:45:24 PM<br />Subject: A bit of poesy (was OLD PIANO)<br /><br /> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2">A friend just sent this to me -- seemed appropriate for the Old Piano discussion.</font></span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2"> </font></span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2">by Howard Nemerov, past U.S. Poet Laureate</font></span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2"> </font></span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><strong>To His Piano<br /><br /></strong>Old friend, patient of error as of accuracy,<br />Ready to think the fingerings of thought,<br />You but a scant year older than I am<br />With my expectant mother expecting maybe<br />An infant prodigy among her stars<br />But getting only little me instead–<br /><br />To see you standing there for six decades<br />Containing chopsticks, Fur Elise, and <br />The Art of Fugue in your burnished rosewood box,<br />As well as all those years of silence and<br />The stumbling beginnings the children made,<br />Who would believe the twenty tons of stress<br />Your gilded frame's kept stretched out all this while?</span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"> </span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2">Annie Grieshop</font></span></div> <div><span class="328363718-25052007"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff" size="2"><a href="http://www.allthingspiano.com/">www.allthingspiano.com</a></font></span></div> </div><a href="http://www.allthingspiano.com/"> </a></font></span> </div> </body> </html>