Dorothea Barth Musician and WriterElegant Violin Music for your Wedding or Special EventCeltic Sheet Music Arrangements
Original CompositionsPoetry and Prose

by Dorothea Barth ©2009

Of fire and lightning rosewood flutes discourse,
A serenade from distant times to you,
More ancient than the music’s gentle force,
Did elemental thunder split your trunk in two?

When lo, by break of morn, a sacrifice,
As fragrant rosewood fell instead of grew,
To bring to life our pipes, let joy arise,
And celebrate your majesty anew;

In misty month of maying did we meet,
A brief encounter in the north coast’s land,
Our madrigals we placed on creviced feet,
Your trunk a welcome weathered music stand;

Oh redwood tree, your wisdom can’t be wrong,
Did you prefer the silence or our song?

Rosewood to Redwood was published in the 2010 issue of Yale University's SAGE Magazine.