Voix Celeste
conductor Hideki Yamaguchi
Kobe, July 2015
A Fairy’s Tale
Periwinkle, sugarplum, pistachio and pearl
Beneath a twinkleberry sky (a fairy’s tale)
Where you can kiss a toad and wake up as a little girl
And inside a blackbird, a pie (with a magic wand)
Ariel and Thumbalina in two almond eyes
A moon alights beside a mermaid
with a star upon her breast (where dryads fly away)
Persimmon pudding in the grail
All but a quest to find a whisper in a treasure chest
And inside a cockle shell, a whale (this enchanted pond)
Pray do tell, what could it be but a fairy’s tale?
Two Unicorns
Cinnamon pixie twirling about the pelican sky
Pink salamander walking a thoughtful butterfly
A bucket of lemongrass on a misty cardamom sea
Aquamarine the foxtail princess, licorice princes on their knee
Two unicorns, two unicorns
(A queen unseen, a boysenberry tangerine, a pocket of moonglow)
Hoof and horn in a bright cerulean blue
With peppercorn from yestermorn
(A green undine, illuminated jellybean, a pocket of moonglow)
Unicorns where the pretty pollywogs sleep
And only dreams come true, in a bright cerulean blue
Lavender junebug counting the oranges wandering by
Under a shoe the cinnamon pixie drinks his rye
An elegant winegum whirling upon a checkerboard square
Hats in a backward conversation
Candy cane waltzing on the air
Bubbles and Gumdrops
Bathing in snowberry honey and oil of rose
(lemon powder, the face on your nose, on hollyhock mountain)
Sprinkle and spice on your lip to the tip of your toes
(ginger cupcake, a saffrony sassafras fountain)
Showered and scented, the hazelnut day
Angels in the whirlwind blow it away
Drink from the buttercup, winking what no one can know
(only the elves know)
Bubbles, gumdrops, goose petal pie
Oh, all the wonders the world can see in your eye
(the wonder of worlds in your eye)
Ouroboros
In onyx a story told
In opal a touch of gold
Ravishing is Titania, radiant Oberon
Dawn to evening, evening to dawn
In amber the dragonfly
In ether the tiger’s eye
The Ocean Bed Of Barsoom
Centaur and Pegasus rising, Leo aligning, minotaur and gnome
Wood elf, wild elf, leaping armadillo, imp on a pillow, griffin on a throne
Valhalla Elysium Avalon and sunken Mu
Olympus and Neverland on the ocean bed of Barsoom
White knight, vermillion dragon, an iron maiden, satyr and a faun
Moon elf, star elf, sprite upon a Pan flute, a leatherback lute, multicolor swan
Sandman sleep, we can ride your field together
Soft and deep, flaxen ponytails of heather
Ride, ride where pixies rhyme inside a planted pot
Floating sheep there to greet us with an apricot
Look, our grand galaxy inside a pumpkin
Look, our reality now only an assumption
And when the phoenix standing guard unveils his feathered sword
And for a paper nightingale the zephyrs play a long lost chord
Wisteria and no more waiting
As if the sky were ever blue
Chimeras are chimeras, too
Wisteria and juniper and honeydew
So sandman sleep, the mysteria is blooming
Time to reap, now the world no longer looming
Fly, fly where fairies glide aboard each train of thought
Fly for keeps, as we leave the earthly parking lot