Listening to Satie
[ Issue 18 ]

Listening to Satie

The poem Listening to Satie by Bet Briggs celebrates the calming power of the Gymnopédies, piano pieces by French composer Erik Satie.

"Music with a still centre."

[ Print This Issue ]

[ Help with Printing ]

Music Player

Listening to Satie
[ From Evenings of Music]
— Bet Briggs

Copyright

Gymnopédies’
limpid tones fall
like raindrops,
each a small jewel
of sound
in the still pool
of midnight.

Music with a still
centre abides;
such calm is a pearl
set deep
in the troubled pool
of the mind.