Music - A Winter Blue Jay by Mark Grieves

A wonderful Winter themed release by Mark Grieves.

Quite a few of Mark's limited editions feature sheet music: 'Mark Grieves - Sheet Music Series' and within some of the New releases he is uniquely transposing famous poetry onto them.

Here he uses the lyrics of 'A Winter Blue Jay,' by the American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), written as the title and words of the piano music.

Below our mini figures are still embracing & there is snow underfoot, but while the paper is still encrusted with mini hearts there is now snow on top, powdering the top of the sheet!

Mark has also created a similar limited edition 'Music - When Music Sounds,' this time featuring the poem 'Music' by Walter de la Mare.

I thought I'd paste the whole poem 'A Winter Blue Jay' by the Pulitzer Prize winning Sara Teasdale for you to enjoy & relax too!

'Crisply the bright snow whispered,
Crunching beneath our feet;
Behind us as we walked along the parkway,
Our shadows danced,
Fantastic shapes in vivid blue.
Across the lake the skaters
Flew to and fro,
With sharp turns weaving
A frail invisible net.
In ecstasy the earth
Drank the silver sunlight;
In ecstasy the skaters
Drank the wine of speed;
In ecstasy we laughed
Drinking the wine of love.
Had not the music of our joy
Sounded its highest note?
But no,
For suddenly, with lifted eyes you said,
“Oh look!”
There, on the black bough of a snow flecked maple,
Fearless and gay as our love,
A bluejay cocked his crest!
Oh who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty?'