Solo Piano.

Aura: a luminous quality or disturbance that surrounds a living thing, place, or object, and that appears to emanate from it. A pervasive yet mysterious quality that a living thing, place, or thing possesses: a person, the earth from space, the sun.

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The following poem considers our sun from the distant viewpoint of my experience on earth.

Aura

You are as fire,

As free as flame,

As distant star,

Shine full from far domain,

Rest long upon this earthly rock,

This crust of planetary dust,

Of blue-green sea,

Of mystery,

Of touch,

Of taste,

Of scent and sound unknown,

You warm this world,

Our heartbeat, strong,

You kiss this land, this body,

Hand and foot,

With heat and solitary song,

With open arms,

We gather here,

Together at this place we most belong.

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The music Aura begins shyly, quietly, before soon growing in confidence as the aura of someone or something casts its spell. The sounds express my feelings as I experience the aura of another using simple gestures: a single line of melody, the close uncluttered harmony. Towards the end of this short piece, the piano shapes itself with a contemplative dance of solitary notes, then fades from view.

The most powerful idea of aura for me is that an unseen quality can so potently move the spirit of another.

The image is of a stylised crescent moon and is used as the music cover. The moon's aura as seen from earth...

The quality of aura is magnified when all is not seen...

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