Piano Teacher

I will teach your child music
Enrich their mind
Summon the muse while
encouraging the joy

I enjoin the theory, history
And list charges
Against which they will
Warmup, scale, revel

Italian mostly, hi-lighter
only pencil yet always penned
Sheets and pages
Anthologies or albums
Etudes, method, sonata

And they will always ask for 
Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin
Or run screaming from Tchaikovsky,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky

And I am not sorry
They have learned a universal
truth, a love, a soul
Through which they can speak
and be heard just as they are

Pedaling begets freedom
Legato and staccato their
friends-in-arms

Welcome the feedback they
must attain it in portato
Tempo furioso whether
digital or grand it
does not matter

And confidence there grows
for the wealth they acquire
Waiting patiently, dolce
Dolcissimo

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