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# The Conductor
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-conductor/
- Published: 2022-03-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: invisible conductor, your baton is tracing magic symbols in my sleep a mountain lake, the splashing of a swan a fertile valley, shepherd with his sheep cicadas chirping loudly in the night the nightingales do celebrat...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

invisible conductor, your baton  
is tracing magic symbols in my sleep  
a mountain lake, the splashing of a swan  
a fertile valley, shepherd with his sheep  
cicadas chirping loudly in the night  
the nightingales do celebrate the day  
the waterfalls churn rivers with their might  
a lion roaring to announce his sway  
the thund'ring of a herd across the plain  
the begging of a fawn for mother's breast  
each moan, each sigh, each struggle to explain  
a mother tells her child that she knows best

all this and more, the symphony of life  
are you alone, conductor, or is there a wife?

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**Author notes:** inspired by: Music by Bessie Rayner Parkes Sweet melody amidst the moving spheres Breaks forth, a solemn and entrancing sound, A harmony whereof the earth's green hills Give but the faintest echo; yet is there A music everywhere, and concert sweet! All birds which sing amidst the forest deep Till the flowers listen with unfolded bells; All winds that murmur over summer grass, Or curl the waves upon the pebbly shore; Chiefly all earnest human voices rais'd In charity and for the cause of truth, Mingle together in one sacred chord, And float, a grateful incense, up to God.