Fête de la Musique

Poetry Piątek #46

Kids' voices
sing almost forgotten
songs with varying enthusiasm.
Parents' hearts set on fire:
music fest.

The Fête de la Musique, or the music fest, is a yearly celebration of music in France. We were lucky this year to have been able to visit a small scale celebration in our town, and even more so to attend the outdoors celebration at the school of our kids. All, of course, in a setting in line with health measures. Although music performed by professionals is certainly something I enjoy very much, the songs performed by our children and their classmates were of a different category. One that brings an incredible amount of joy and pride. This poem celebrates that. The picture is from the local music festival, by the way.

The poem on top is a tritriplicata, a poetic form I created. If you want to know more about it, click here to find answers to some of the questions you might have. If you want to read a collection of tritriplicata poems, why not buy my ebook Thinking of Europe. It has 27 tritriplicata poems taking you on a journey through Europe.

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Poetry Elsewhere

Poets writing haiku are courageous. To avoid doing so, I invented my own poetic form. But, I do love a good haiku. Fortunately, there are amazing poets like ACM who write beautiful poems like this Haiku of Monsoon’s Arrival.

I recently found this substack newsletter, and I do like the poetry in it. Especially the second one here: good news story.

And if you like a little home archeology, you might like this poem by Roye Segal: Holding On. I did some storage excavation recently, but had not thought about writing a poem about it.