First movement

Language and vocabulary mingle in a chorus

Structuring a poem as a symphony of words

Strings sing violins tremble hauntingly

Short vowels horns trumpet low a main phrase

Belting out percussion slapping rattles kettles

Deep down deep down

Crashing to crescendo with a shushing cymbal hat

Up again and rising repetition of the main phrase

Multitude of timbres in a symphony of words

Racing climbing vigour bowing horsehair fraying

Singable tremolos shrilly trilling piccolos

Caterwauling clarinets competing to be heard

 

Second movement

Down to a slow low oboe solo

Bassoon doom gloom low

Oboe notes rock the room

Sad low low sad trudging

Tramping march sad low march

Horns low boom bassoons

Bright horns of hope down

Low dirge slow dirge

Clarinets sharp darkly quarking

Overtones on low slow trudging

Dull dark march harping

Harping Haunting low squall

Brass horns parp

Flickering shimmering whistling

And jiggling phoenix-like melody

On dull dark quickening march

Piccolo flute twittering

Tittering solo piccolo

A dull dark hastening march

Deep down deep down drum beat

Flickering jittering jiggety upbeat

Bomb Iraq bomb bomb iraq

Political satirical Political satirical

Tub-thumping tub-thumping

Deep down deep down shushhhhh

 

Third movement

Strings breeze in virtuoso violins

Flouncy poncey bouncing wavering

Each CELLOS COME IN violin HARMONISING

Sound APEGIOS followed HARSH SAWING

By JARRING CHORDS cello HARMONIES

Light airy offset with low tones

Serenity warm harsh bowing sawing tones

Surreally floating quickening bridging

Toplines fiddling questions answers

Three part harmonies bass

Questions answers worries

Questions answers worries

Quickening rhythmical changes

Fast staccato passages that

Hint at where they’re going then

Suddenly giraffe three beat pause

Airy floating quickening slow down ending

Rippling tidally through the air

Ethereal enchanting lilting dancing

Whimsical lyric comical

Petering diminishing and

Rising to crescendo then

Ending on a single quickly

Trilling high pitched violin string

 

Fourth movement

Chorus belting out with all word

Instruments in a rousing climax to

A symphony of words

Strings sing Horns blare drums

Bang wind calls low horns

Bash of cymbals all voices drown

Deep down deep down

Rattling battling falsely ending

Shushing violent crash

Up again and rising

Repetition of a main phrase

Rolling lowly beating tom toms

Piccolos and clarinets

Calling out and squawking out

A symphony in words.