Saturday, April 23, 2011
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Mathematics and Music Meld
Mathematics and music meld:
Intuitive and innate
Yet both separate and cognate.
Symmetrical and asymmetrical:
So mellifluous and true, that
Notations and symbols endue.
Rhythmic and eurhythmic:
Measured and inspired,
autochthonous and acquired.
Both beautiful equations:
Enticing and repulsing
the soul’s inner fold,
with harmonics and metrics
at once nuanced and bold .
Each devoted disciple--
Answers non-negotiable decrees:
reverentially working
beyond their lees.
Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
