Miscellaneous, Writing Exercise

If I Could Hear Fairies’ Wings

Nancy's Notes šŸ–ŠļøšŸŽ¶

Written for The Daily Spur Writing Exercise where the challenge
is to describe an object using only the sense of hearing.
This is my description. The accompanying video
will reveal what I am listening to.

Listening to this apparatus I hear what sounds like gentle cascading waterfalls similar to a bevy of swans as it glides onto and across a lake.

If I could hear fairiesā€™ wings fluttering or hummingbirds hovering at their feeders, I believe they would sound like this.

Thereā€™s a regal quality, as well, like that of stately Baroque dancers performing a minuet.

Closing my eyes and listening intently, I see images of mushrooms sprouting through the earth, flowers opening, plants unfolding and trees shooting up to skies.

I can hear an arrow quivering through the air and insects buzzing by my ear.

The sun rises, slowly spreading glorious light from ocean to ocean and the silhouette of a ballerina pirouettes across the horizon.

I hear sand dunes shifting and snowflakes collecting on holly branches.

The heavens open as an albatross soars higher and higher to the tone a finely tuned Steinway.

A choir of angels is singing.

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Writing Exercise (Sun Jun 30 2024)

This is J.S. Bach’s ā€œToccata and Fugue in D Minorā€, usually played on a pipe organ. Here is Amy Turk … harpist, arranger, composer and session artist from the UK … playing Bach’s iconic piece which has been transcribed for the harp, the item I was describing.

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33 thoughts on “If I Could Hear Fairies’ Wings”

  5. Now I’m posting from your main site and not just from the reader.

    I have never been able to post from the main site. So there I have it OR maybe I don’t. Thanks for understanding. (We do connect on a few things.)

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  6. Where can get on of these specal hearng ads? really and truly would lke to have one.

    Dd you notce anythng slly about my comment? t s strange cannot type the letter n a comment to them. have no problem typng the letter elsewhere. Only happenng n comments.

    a b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. See ther s no . am gong crazy. lol

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    1. Wow! Ths s ncredble! ‘m havng the same ssue. Where am ?

      Just kidding, Sighs, but there are times when I can’t type anything in comments. I’ll be typing away and look up to see nothing on the page. Go figure! I have no idea! WordPress being WordPress, I guess.

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  7. You have a well tuned sense of hearing and an eloquent vocabulary that touches out into the realm of ā€œbeautifulā€ from where art comes.
    I so love this. Thanks for sharing.

    This is way over my capacity as a describer. Love your words. Thanks so much Nancy. Job well done.
    Wow. Stellar. šŸ‘šŸ½

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    1. Thanks so much, cara! I think you just disproved the accusation that my husband claims I’m not listening (to him)! It’s called selective hearing, lol!

      I have a great pair of noise-blocking headphones and an imagination that is at times uncontrollable. I guess that would explain it. I’m truly humbled by your very gracious words. Grazie mille, amica! ā¤ļøŽ

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      1. I remember in the Documentary, and LC’s posthumous Album “Thanks For The Dance”, that Damien Rice described the song ‘beautifully humble’ … I’m very pleased that you are going play in on your piano … šŸŽµšŸ˜

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