I asked Davy Yue to share hosting duties for Our Friendship Bench on November 10th. The conversation that followed, especially the candid, touching stories of the transformative and healing power of music, led us to record this short video, “Breathing Music.” We found ourselves talking about music and poetry. Here is the video and the poem Davy read for us.
All audacious ambitions that creativity trespass
All my talents that entrance to outspin a compass
All heroic honed hobbies entertain elite’s access
As such so many I can confess, be blessed, digress
As such I call forth complexities to dreams intense
My gallant talents champion colorful cosmos immense
Folding origami to give birth to vase, stem, and rose
Proclaim procreation from paper to elegant proper prose
Profess precious profoundness as each crease proposed
Proper ponderings on prophetic paper elements imposed
Painting styles as modern, contemporary, and abstract
Every stroke of the brush leaves much less to subtract
Effusive designs before last bell, final call, closing act
Imaginative innovations brushed into canvas’ sealing pact
Improvising alto sax melodies, symphonies, and maladies
Monumental musical movements to mesmerize complexities
Compose expeditions from notes, staffs, and visionaries
Challenge Beethoven movements from auditory intricacies
Designing luxury home decor – rich, enriched, entrenched
Lavish ellusive illuminated visual ideologies drenched
Measured masquerade – masks, gloves, and ways to fade
Magnificent eloquent evident for lovely life well made
As thus effusive entities – intents, talents, endowments
All expansive elements emphasize a man of empowerment
I express diversions to birth beauty’s bravery eminent
Davy Yue