Teaching my harmonies

 ‘teaching my harmonies’ Trgates,5/22/2026

every note, every chord
I play, yet my picking
has come by way of others
sharing, breathing
some here, some there
teaching harmony,
learning the value of
sequences, progressions,
learning dissonance
swinging doors for
open tunings,
fifths, augmented sevenths.
listening closely
there’s the voices not near,
yet never gone,
somehow blend with those here,
polyphony, homophonic, monophonic
choices sung from compositions
through precise music theory,
and choices of improvisation.
pause, sometimes I hear
in this silence
otherwise unread, unheard,
my presumed interpretation in the way,
then a gifted overtone
opens a beginning psalmodic chant.
those there, those here
join the choral symphony
variations with backdrops of
open tunings, fifths, augmented sevenths.
in the pause’s silence
I hear earth’s heaven.
sometimes.