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Hello, here's a little poem I made while listening to some piano music.

Any help would be most welcome. Especially any suggestions to make it more concise

Music is the wind
That spreads wings
And takes imagination
To new heights
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I can well relate to it as is.

I've countless times been revived and restored to proper life by music.

Just yesterday I came home shattered and was saved yet again, this time by bireli and sylvain playing estate.
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I agree with youkrst. It expresses what I feel when I listen to certain music that kind of presses my "spread your wings and start dreaming" - button (Mozarts Concert 20 in D minor KV 466 does that to me (the version with the amazing Friedrich Gulda on the piano), but sometimes it can even happen by a Manowar battle song :-)

P.S.: Which piano music inspired you to write the poem?
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What inspired me to write the poem was the works of Ludovico Einaudi.

He's a famous European pianist. He's really good.
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He looks really interesting - I just looked him up on Wikipedia.
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Aomame wrote:He looks really interesting - I just looked him up on Wikipedia.
He is. There are about 9 albums of his on spotify.

They're all mesmerizing.
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may i just mention Wilhelm Kempff

he floors me (or rather stratospheres me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsqFjiA7ao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg
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youkrst wrote:may i just mention Wilhelm Kempff

he floors me (or rather stratospheres me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsqFjiA7ao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg

Spell-binding.

And I enjoy the pun
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