Recipe for Musical Disaster

Just stop listening
In any musical piece
All goes haywire

Worry about if
You will play the wrong note and
You’re more likely to

Practice sloppily
While expecting perfection
You will surely fail

Recipe for Musical Success

Always listening
To the language of music
Letting it move you

Taking care as to
The intention of each note
Tone has living soul

Practice reachfully
With mindful repetition
One step at a time

NaPoWriMo Day 21. The prompt was “try your hand at writing your own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way  — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire, but is described as if it is all very normal.”
I decided to write about both the haywire option and its antithesis. I may hang these on my music room wall! My daughter added a last stanza to the Recipe for Success:

Play it carefully 
Take your time to get it right 
Like my mother says