(This is an art song written for Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen using his journals and writings as inspiration. Kierkegaard never married and left everything to Regine who remained a major inspiration in his works.)
From Kierkegaard’s Works of Love: ‘But every tree is known by its own fruit. So also is love known by its own fruit and the love of which Christianity speaks is known by its own fruit—revealing that it has within itself the truth of the eternal. All other love, whether humanly speaking it withers early and is altered or lovingly preserves itself for a round of time—such love is still transient; it merely blossoms. This is precisely its weakness and tragedy, whether it blossoms for an hour or for seventy years—it merely blossoms; but Christian love is eternal. Therefore no one, if he understands himself, would think of saying of Christian love that it blossoms; no poet, if he understands himself, would think of celebrating it in song.’
Inner Reconciliation (click here to listen)
(When my microphone comes back from repairs I’ll sing it for you, for now the flute substitutes.)
Inner Reconciliation
In the garden he does pledge
she accepts his proposal
sovereign queen of his heart
unknown divinity, mythic echoes
cast Søren and Regine
Their love, its abiding prophecies
full of life’s eccentric premises,
mere shadows lost in the light
In his melancholy he falters
placing his last hope
she pleads, he wounds
Their love, its abiding prophecies
full of life’s eccentric premises,
mere shadows lost in the light
Deceives to give her soul resilience
his sin a lack of faith
ever devoted
(instrumental interlude)
Their love, its abiding prophecies
full of life’s eccentric premises,
mere shadows lost in the light
Linked to New World Creative Union’s prompt to use Arthur William Edward O’Shaughnessy, “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” http://newworldcreativeunion.blogspot.com/2012/05/wednesday-wake-up-call-for-05092011.html?spref=fb
Chromapoetica 