Coffee Shop Melodies

Snippets of Conversation merge

Into the ambient coffee shop music

Becoming one living breathing thing,

Alive, it swells and dies out,

Only to burst forth again.

Laughter. Rushed chatter.

Biting, staccato-ed phrases.

This little shop - composing it's own symphony

Musicianship Relearned

Tentatively, notes fill the air.

Piano first, then rising to mezzo forte.

Testing the water, relearning the feel

Of keys beneath fingers and air in lungs.

Confidence builds, and in a few days time

You can hear clear, solid melodies

Dancing through the air

And filling the house.

(4/9/2010)