Instrumental Improvisation by R Gerry Fabian

I can fine tune your troubles

so they fall into harmony

and gently touch your frets,

washing slowly away

in soft melodic wisps.

I can use Am-F-C-G

to lift you out of doldrums

or

Em-D-C-G-G/F#

to calmly and carefully caress

perfectly paced intervals.

I can capo your resonant tone

to bring another dimension

to what seems lackluster depth.

Place yourself in my hands.

R. Gerry Fabian

(Image by DWB, of an improvisational instrument)

5 thoughts on “Instrumental Improvisation by R Gerry Fabian”

  2. DWB's avatar DWB says:

    RGF

    I truly get the sense in re-reading your poems this week that the author of these pieces (yourself) FELT the poems before they were written, which is the most important thing in the world.

    In Wallace Stevens’ great poem “The Idea of Order at Key West” the poet and his friend hear a girl singing as she walks along the seashore. This seemingly random (but perhaps not so much random after all) happenstance CAUSES the poet to write his poem; the unplanned, spontaneous moment of hearing the girl singing her song beside the ocean waves turns the poet into a poet again, so to speak.

    Your works have that kind of feel to them.

    Poems should not be written to show off; they should be written to show WHY LIFE IS WORTH LIVING. Your focus on the magic of the everyday accomplishes that utterly crucial task.

    Great work.

    Dale

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