(i) Пианино
Black and white ivory keys
Pressed at regular intervals by long, slender fingers
A head dances above the keys,
a pair of eyes rove over the notes
that stare back from scoresheets,
that reside in a scorebook that appears
never-ending, thus the pianist is entrapped and doomed to remain a pianist
even as he dies, he will bring the piano and the scoresheets to his grave.
(ii) Скрипки, альты и виолончели
Strings, strings and more strings,
a never-ending sea of strings, guttural sawing, an endless flurry of
seemingly excited musicians, when they stare down at the crowd that they can see nothing of,
they wonder who's watching them and saw away till the
end of their concert on the stage of life.
(iii) Флейты, магнитофоны, сопилки и духовые инструменты в целом
Flutes or recorders or sopilkos or whatever
You have to work your mouth around something,
You need to cover up something,
You need to let go of something.
That is life in a nutshell, but not all of us can do it,
yet these performers perform it so well.
(iv) Барабаны
Basically, they're just skin stretched over an opening,
be it animal skin, synthetic skin, human skin, whatever-skin.
You hit the skin, either a nice, hollow note echoes in your ears,
or a short, hard sound bounces off your eardrums.
Either way, the slap of skin against skin is music to your ears
(if you're a psycho--I AM a psycho),
leaving your skin a nice, fleshy red.
(v) Дирижер
A lightning conductor, an orchestra conductor, life's grand conductor
They all direct something and change the course of that something.
Lightning doesn't near us, notes reach our ears, and we reach the end of the line.
Who's that conductor on stage?
(vi) Аудитория
Different shows attract different types of people to watch.
Some attract people who care less,
Others attract people who cry and weep the whole damn time,
others just have no audience at all--the performers perform just for themselves,
like the performance of life, or the Life performance, or whatever.
Stand on this wooden stage here, behind all the performers.
Look down from there, tell me what you see--
I see only darkness, no cheers nor whistles or camera flashes.
Tell me, what do you see?
(vii) Конечная нота
In musicals or plays or orchestra performances,
the last note is the most dramatic.
Its either too soft, too loud or too overbearing;
you never fin notes that comfort you at the end.
This life performance has been treacherous, but you've gotten so far--
you need to end it; make everyone remember you.
Leave a note behind,
as dramatic as possible--
one that lingers in the eyes and ears of everyone who comes across it.
Sorry about the small font, all😅
lol its nice
Ty
(i) Пианино
Black and white ivory keys
Pressed at regular intervals by long, slender fingers
A head dances above the keys,
a pair of eyes rove over the notes
that stare back from scoresheets,
that reside in a scorebook that appears
never-ending, thus the pianist is entrapped and doomed to remain a pianist
even as he dies, he will bring the piano and the scoresheets to his grave.
(ii) Скрипки, альты и виолончели
Strings, strings and more strings,
a never-ending sea of strings, guttural sawing, an endless flurry of
seemingly excited musicians, when they stare down at the crowd that they can see nothing of,
they wonder who's watching them and saw away till the
end of their concert on the stage of life.
(iii) Флейты, магнитофоны, сопилки и духовые инструменты в целом
Flutes or recorders or sopilkos or whatever
You have to work your mouth around something,
You need to cover up something,
You need to let go of something.
That is life in a nutshell, but not all of us can do it,
yet these performers perform it so well.
(iv) Барабаны
Basically, they're just skin stretched over an opening,
be it animal skin, synthetic skin, human skin, whatever-skin.
You hit the skin, either a nice, hollow note echoes in your ears,
or a short, hard sound bounces off your eardrums.
Either way, the slap of skin against skin is music to your ears
(if you're a psycho--I AM a psycho),
leaving your skin a nice, fleshy red.
(v) Дирижер
A lightning conductor, an orchestra conductor, life's grand conductor
They all direct something and change the course of that something.
Lightning doesn't near us, notes reach our ears, and we reach the end of the line.
Who's that conductor on stage?
(vi) Аудитория
Different shows attract different types of people to watch.
Some attract people who care less,
Others attract people who cry and weep the whole damn time,
others just have no audience at all--the performers perform just for themselves,
like the performance of life, or the Life performance, or whatever.
Stand on this wooden stage here, behind all the performers.
Look down from there, tell me what you see--
I see only darkness, no cheers nor whistles or camera flashes.
Tell me, what do you see?
(vii) Конечная нота
In musicals or plays or orchestra performances,
the last note is the most dramatic.
Its either too soft, too loud or too overbearing;
you never fin notes that comfort you at the end.
This life performance has been treacherous, but you've gotten so far--
you need to end it; make everyone remember you.
Leave a note behind,
as dramatic as possible--
one that lingers in the eyes and ears of everyone who comes across it.