Liberace Beyond Candelabras.....

[bluebirdspoetry2]

Beyond The Candelabras.....
by dr todd harris


gray-staged clouds
riding shotgun
rise high
rains
filling vernal phantom lakes

Time disperses fame's hangers-on
leaving
few fanciful fashion choices
silk excepting
dusty record-sleeves

empty tumbled down buildings
carry on mansions' memories
discarded takes

childless legacies
spawn life's greatest yard sales
leaving
tall trees' unwatered roots

passing years
prune admirers' vines:
thinning hair
shorter lines

spinning
steady
ever-winding spirals:
long playing helixes
stereo DNA
rebirthed soulful self-portraits
far-away musical phrases
framing yesterday's exacting poetry
redacting tears away

melodies echoing
unkempt marble floors
founding forest's dust-polished crypt;
pressed discs
marking heaven's reunion doors
ears
exacting long practice's earnest scrip

tomorrow's tommows
may silent pass
absent persistent phonographs

wilted roses all
receiving smile's gift
dropped leaves
all lifted-up

admiration's admirers
sipping shared mortality's silver cup

adoration's future
flocks trading mp3's
filling pail cans
watering long-parched trees

being remembered
resembles pure paradise's pacer

old recordings
lay waiting
wanting:

unopened lonely-flowers
requesting hungry bees

every watched clock
swinging seconds' merciless eraser

lest somone minds the trees.....

[bluebirdspoetry2]

I wrote this after watching the recent movie about Liberace's life - I visited the mansion as a guest just a few months after Liberace's untimely passing - like any great artist with no family to pass his legacy to, the winds of fate have blown harshly on the museum and Lee's memories - His music is the greatest gift, and that is what should be remembered most. All performers are mere mortals after all, but their musical recordings can live on - especially with Digital recording technology chasing tunes around the world on the WWW.

I hope you enjoy the poem - those of us of a certain age will remember things like record sleeves - perhaps even the Great Gildersleeve....regards and best wishes, dr todd

[Reilley]

He was the sort of guy that had great admiration for admirers, wasn't he?

That was pretty cool, and well suited to the portrayal of Liberace and his life.

Keep writing!