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# Moonlight Sonata
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/moonlight-sonata/
- Published: 2022-04-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Pale moonlight oozes from the lacquered grand as birdlike fingers stroke the checkered keys. Time seemingly forgets its second hand, a drop of golden amber set to freeze.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Pale moonlight oozes from the lacquered grand  
as birdlike fingers stroke the checkered keys.  
Time seemingly forgets its second hand,  
a drop of golden amber set to freeze.

C-Minor echoes through the concert hall,  
draped in a velvet burgundy on oak.  
The chandelier's on dim as shadows shawl  
the audience in leisurely baroque.

The tempo's picking up, a stately dance.  
Wrists up and down, a peacock’s mannered gait,  
and then, excited, clasping at their chance,  
they race across the keyboard to their fate.

Could but a poem match that final note,  
the poet, could say, quitting: "all she wrote".