Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 pm at the Knight Concert Hall at the Arsht Center, Piano Slam celebrates its 15th year. Young poets from local middle and high schools will recite their poems accompanied by Piano Duo Spektra and Afrobeta. For more information click here.
Below enjoy poetry by two young poets who will perform at Piano Slam.
The Clouds and The Sky, In Light and Shade, A Celestial Duet with Importance and Equality
Derick Nunez, 6th grade, Lawton Chiles Middle
Oh, what dynamics come from the outside world, flying in through the open balcony door is
The fanfare of the air currents crashing and rushing into each other,
Opening the balcony door, you can hear what harmony comes from the clouds above,
The elegance and vocals of the wind’s romantic, celestial hymn, like the song of the heavenly gods above,
Although, sorrow flows whenever darkness floods and light goes away,
The melody from the guardians above, guiding the zephyr and creating happiness all around, but sorrowfully,
Always interrupted at one point by the crashing interlude of the rain, That always creates a magnificent crescendo for darkness, and a decrescendo for the divine light,
Like the chorus of a play singing in harmony and ensemble interrupted by injury or accident, or disaster or cataclysm,
the unevenness of the light in the sky and the shade in the gray clouds.
is like my longing lament for the interlude of the freezing rain,
the gap between gray clouds and clear, bright skies,
the duet of cloud and sky, light and shade, dancing an intertwined ensemble,
like the intervals between darkness and brightness, or the rhyme of a poem and a story,
like the metronome of a song and its harmonic notes full of elegance,
creating a crescendo in the lofty, celestial light after the cold, frosty rain, and the ghastly clouds,
and the slow tempo of this very long day, ends with the coda of the gloomy, dark storm.
The Burning city
