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Perfection is a rash and dangerous word
that slips seductive into careless chat
oft used to praise and, daubed like lemon curd
all thick and sweet, so knobbly toast ‘comes flat.
How can we be content to reach the state
where what we aim for is, in full, achieved?
Complacency, that’s called, which you don’t rate
nor will you ever likely be deceived.
The greatest music needs the greatest care
that execution strives to match the thought
of its creator, restive soul laid bare,
whose teaching must be learnt and can’t be bought.
Your generosity, desire and art
so restlessly provokes and moves the heart.
24 November 2008
Sowerby Music – 21st Birthday Celebration Weekend.
A pilgrimage to Rocksalt Restaurant
is fast becoming a regular haunt,
not just for the quality of the food
- a poor report would be extremely rude -
but for the amazing view
behind plate glass, accorded to the few
that enter here anticipating appetite to sate
with all the treats set ‘fore them on a plate.
It’s not just food but ambience and time;
we need all senses harnessed here to rhyme.
What better monitor than half a rising tide
as FE74 sets free from mud to ride
at anchor evenly afloat.
What of that other stranded boat
surrounded by the bickering, mewing gulls.
Perhaps I’ll have a pud to watch its hulls
come free so the inner harbour is at last
all flooded bringing the end of our divine repast.
17 May 2017
Sacconi Festival, Folkestone