Solo

Harold Applebaum

 · 1916 · New York
 · 1974 · Pennsylvania


Solo.

You cannot hear me now. My voice is lost
in thunder. The song of me is drowned
in war's great symphony like the sound
of violins all beaten flat and tossed
against a cliff of brass. I am not free,
but I am singing still beneath the clash,
below the metal chorus and the lash
of trumpets at the sky. Long will I be
but a tiny voice, crying in the dawn
of stars to dream at and a world beyond,
and hold my keening note until the wand
waves back the brasses and the drums are gone,
then brave against the stillness sing my part,
the deathlessness of beauty in the heart.

About this poem

This is the title poem from my grandfather, Harold Applebaum's, book of poetry, published in 1947.

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Written on 1947

Submitted on January 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBACDDCEFFEGG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 574
Words 121
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Harold Applebaum

Harold Applebaum was born in 1916. He attended the New School and formed a writing group with Warren Adler and Mario Puzo. He continued writing until his death in 1974. more…

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