Dejan Stojanovic - Poets
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    Dancing of Sounds


    There is a moonlight note
    In the Moonlight Sonata;
    There is a thunder note
    In an angry sky.

    Sound unbound by nature
    Becomes bounded by art.
    There is no competition of sounds
    Between a nightingale and a violin.

    Nature rewards and punishes
    By offering unpredictable ways;
    Art is apotheosis;
    Often, the complaint of beauty.

    Nature is an outcry,
    Unpolished truth;
    The art—a euphemism—
    Tamed wilderness.

    -Dejan Stojanovic