Weatherly wrote this double glory times as an improvisation on the blues line
“never muted heart,” the preamble to wally, an improvisation in several sections dedicated to Wallace Stevens and with allusions from The Man With the Blue Guitar, with influences of rhythm and blues, jazz, and vocalese (respect to Eddie Jefferson, Betty Carter, King Pleasure, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, also Manhattan Transfer).
never muted heart
never muted heart
eclectic blues guitar
(C)2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly
něv ər my
tĭd härt
něv ər my tĭd härt
ĭ klěk tĭk blz gĭ tär
times
truly alone muley
knows truce death music
never muted heart
knows moody brute hurts
human blows sound blues
(C)2006 Thomas Elias Weatherly
short history of the saxophone, Groundwater Press, Hudson NY, 2006
a x x b a x
x a x a x
x x a x c
x a x a c
a x b x a
tr lē ə lōn my lē
nōz trs děth my zĭk
něv ər my tĭd härt
nōz m dē brt hûrtz
hy mən blōz sound blz
The rhyme begins at both ends and moves toward the center and back out toward the beginning and end. The poem written in syllabic prosody, a pattern of the number of syllables, deploys lines of the same number of syllables, with one exception. That one exception does not break the rule. The rhymes in the main pattern identical rhyme, true rhyme and assonance plays against two consonant rhymes heart/hurts.
The phonetic depiction shows the musical nature of his composition. He is Tom Campian; he is not Ben Jonson, though he claims both.
(C)2011 Thomas Elias Weatherly
