Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

When you play

When you play

Playing your sweet song

Rippling rhythms smooth and melodious

Piping it smooth and easy

Filling us, all of us with those treacly joys of life

Tunes filled with emotions awakening something deep within, stirring-

Strains of sweetness

Honey trails of joy

Pleasantness unmatched

Dribbling in tones scintillating

And I am drawn to listen,

Loosing and loosening myself in your rhythmic flow-

Over and over again-

You fill me with joy

When you play these sweet tunes

Tunes, floating in a subtle dance of grace with air, smooth and easy,

You play it so fine, you make it sound easy

This complex play of wind-play;

Scaling through gradations of happiness-

Playing, you play gently to my emotions

Soothing sounds of appeasement

Mellowing my tumbled emotions

A healing potion given expression in your songs, assuaging

You bring joy to my world

Playing these tunes-

My world is ever ready to share in these tunes

Smooth tunes of complex compositions

Packaged and delivered with ease

You wrap these gifts with care

Delivering them in gentle ease

Playing your tunes of mixed joy-

Your song plays with my whole being

Filling me, moving me and bringing ease

Soft notes of pleasantness

Stroking in light brushes of master artist

You breath light in wind through these tunes

Filling my whole presence, electrifying dancing air around me-

Dancing with clear rhythms

You make ready world dance with you

Tinkling with happy glee of delight

Delightful light sounds feisty

Taking over, drawing us in

Into a state of mixed emotions of joy–

These delightful potpourris of sweet scented sounds

You lay in these copper coils

Scintillating delight most pleasant

Whiffs of pleasant ardour

Encapsulating us in your world

When you take us into your world of playful tunes-

You play with sound

Working at it with all your abilities

It absorbs you,

It is your life, your love, your longing

Sealing you in a world of creativity;

Your world must be full of primary colours-

I imagine water colours

Freshly painted by Angels of song

Who lovingly share their songs with you

Melodies of sweetest strains

Trickling upon your receptive mind

You pick delicate brushes of imaginations and paint

Imitating watercolours of life in your tunes-

Watercolours unfading of song

Stroked in feathery layering

Pastel colours painted by practised hands

Twiddling with notes in sweet outpouring of plain delight

When you play your songs scaling musical notes,

Rising with discovery from level to level-

Till you notch heights of creativity unimaginable

When inspiration's closed dams burst open

Pouring forth beauty of sound, mighty gush refreshing

Musical notes stringed together in smooth chain of perfect rendition

Your songs smile with you, perfection rendered

Infectious, riotous laughter, glistening delight of world at play, with you-

Sounds; lively smooth, gentle music, silky to touch

Mind’s hand caressing these notes as though a thing tangible

Suffusing music you generate filling to fullness void of boredom

Wrapping itself around me

As though joy itself had assumed shape and form in your tunes

And has become warm, strong hands holding me in its captivating embrace

Generating satisfied sense of fulfilment in your tune-

When you play,

O Boy, when you play, playing those tunes

Scintillating, sweet songs of hope given birth,

Shared happiness given expression

When you play you reaching out with loving hands

Embracing me in your shared love- edit -

Piper of joy, playing songs of exaltation

Raising emotions without creating hysteria

You pour wax, bees wax and lacquer emotions

Till a smooth veneer of polished sophistication emerges

Calm and clear on luminous outside

Bursting with unrestrained joy within-

Soaking in all these rhythms of finesse nurtured –

”Sångar som virvlar omkring mig som fjärilar

När du spelar dem där tjusiga låtar i  lätthet

Du tappar bort världen och

öppnar i verkligen himlens dörrarna (very heaven´s gates)

och tillåta oss att njuta något som är mer än vi kan beskriva

Man kunde väl se Petrus som tappa i stor nöjda fötterna

Du som spelar och spelar med allt

Dina låtar begripa med starka känslor

Vi är som barn som bara le,

Vi skratta i glädje när du spela

Dina låtar färga våras känslor som regnbågar

Du som måla glädje och få världen att skratta med dig-

You set a charge to air

Electrifying it in a way that is all you

When you play, vibrations echo through prime substances

Ions dancing in air charged drawn to each other creating new things

You weave a pattern of joy indescribable

Shifting patterns constant in rendition-

Your music awakens nature to take note

In noticing to move in sashaying motions of ease
Master artiste creating

You add spice to life

You alchemist of sound

You play with very nature’s substances-

Deeper emotions you weave around your fingers

You sly pleasing deceiver playing

Your songs trick ears into hearing subtlety self generated

World within worlds in these tunes regenerating

You create and activate mind to add

Increasing tempo of joy infectious spreading its seductive allure-

Only you do it in a good and rewarding way

You sculpt and fine tune

Removing rough edges undesired

Till purity in tonal clarity is clanging melodious bells

Cathedral bells of sound composed with gentility

Filling sound swelling in definitive rendition–

Aha, now, you see a thing there that is not

you sculpture a world of sound encompassing

Then you draw all into your world to share your vision

Suffusing and filling everything and impacting all

In a profound sense of ease

Fireflies of innocent preoccupation

Lighting darkness with flitting dashing fires cold-

Flitting flirt of song seducing with ease

A smooth edge mesmerises

When you play

You who play with emotions

Tuning and easing in one flow of seeming innocence

Orchestrating varying emotions to sing along to your tune-

When you play your tune

You are as sunlight shining through my emotional downside

Light shining down from overcast skies

Beautiful bright sunny light into a dark place un-beseeched

Much beseeched is light in ever increasing brilliance

Notes as sun rays lifting my emotions up

Dispelling these blues feeling me with blue skies type of joy,

That brilliant clarity of late spring reflecting nature colours over still waters–

Ears you have given hearing in these songs you play

I have acquired defined taste of appreciation,                                

Listening to you play your tunes of delight

As though sipping with deliberate ease

On old, cultured wine, of music most refined

As though of some classic vintage-

Sipped in some far away rustic French vineyard

O, yet still in some Oceanside South African vine yard

White, solid walls with quietness so absorbing

Rhododendrons asplash with vivid life colours in breezing ease

These worlds of a cultured pleasantness

All in a class of its own –

Of discernment of quality that I never knew existed hitherto

Delightful sounds of life given expression

And I am drawn to simmer in this nourishing stew of emotional replenishment

Slowly stewing in this delectable dish,

Prepared by ancient recipes with a touch all yours,

Seasoned to joy as I broil in this slow cooking "Ambrosian chants"

Lovely is time spent in this delight all consuming-

Lost Am I in these tunes,

Closest to heaven’s harmony I have yet come

Where glorious Angels adorn His presence with songs of song

You revive me in my exhaustion

Breathing moves into these tired old bones

I am tapping with cool ease to these tunes

You play –

When you play

Your sound lifts sagging moods

Lifting high roof of this ancient settled house

You blow and blow in refreshing winds of renewal

It as though a breath of fresh air were

Blowing through these smoky halls

Bringing in something new, an exciting upbeat of measured tempo

You awaken somnolent masses with practised ease-

Blinking eyes, diamond points of light

Excitement as sparkling starlight dancing in twinkling eyes

Your excitement filling your tunes

Creating vibrant joy

You are your music, when you play, music man at play

Then you are yourself,

Working your charm on expectant audience-

How pleasant,

Mr “Musicman”  when you lift up your pipe

Piping tunes sweet divine

You relocate my mood and mind

You reposition me in a place so different

In a place of calm and relaxation

Your transport me from my hubris in some hard edged city

To a place of calm in a

Some far away rural cottage-

Your music, reflections of quiet lakes

A thing of joy sweet to my heart

Lifting my mood in a joy indescribable

In your music you perform miracles of restoration

Setting this old physical body at certain ease,

When you plane your tunes-

Let’s take a stroll down memory’s lanes to

Some place, warm and soft lighted

You weave some wand of delight when you toss and turn with that trumpet

You write on invincible surfaces of dancing air

You command gladness of a relaxing kind

A slipping off for a time of wearies

Sipping on your sweet tunes in crystal of pure heart delighted

Receiving joy you impart in your songs of ease

For, a time I am lost, in your music-

You bring far places to me in familiar landscapes dreary

You take me back to warm known landscapes

Experienced in some portal of time as indescribable happiness

You take my soul and play with it in your songs

Weary body for a time left to revitalise in purest sounds becalming

You lift my mind for a time to a place of dreams

Dreamily I loose myself in your tunes of ease-

Body gliding in gentle foot taps

Head nodding in rhythmic sashaying of composed ease

Whole body dancing inwards to little outward demonstration

A contained universe in a mind set to these tunes so sweet; healing

You let drop sugar drips of tantalizing music

Ice chilled sugar cane juice dripping in a hot place

Sizzling on my hot tongue of weariness, becalming-

Warm chocolate in a soft lighted room

Set beside a snow covered landscapes of white

Warm fire blazing, a touch of merino wool

Gentle rubbing my forearm

Butter scones liberating saucy aroma of pleasantness

Beyond words, a feeling so good,

Blend of good taste, statements of intelligence in tunes,

You play and play with minds sturdy, contemplating joy in soft tones-

Rollicking collective fun

Sounds of joy locking minds disparate, worlds apart

To a common drinking pool

Where life’s essentials are shared in quietness

You create a world all so different, you bring together when you share

Your joy is a world at peace with ease,

You set tone in tunes worthy –

Sounds washing like mountain streams

Pure and cleansing, gurgling sound of innocence,

A chill welcoming shower refreshing amidst sweltering heat

Cascading alluring warmth of lava flow in chilling cold

Elated mind absorbing these streams of purity

Losing myself into worlds beyond worlds

Your tune, playing, gently and smoothly –

Pinpoints of refined sound pricking to a state of elation

A blend of rehearsed ease

Each note, perfection attained with seeming ease

Healing balm flowing all over me

These sounds you so generously offer

Soothing -

You awaken picturesque memories

Of pleasant times in some lost worlds

Its gratifying beauty forever sealed

Landscapes of changing scenarios etched

Deeply ingrained into memories unconscious template

Where reproductions are projected unto consciousness’ screen

Displayed in vivid colours to your tune,

Solace embracing me in comforting sound-

Your tune is soft heartbeat of midnight

Silent sound of night in its intensity

Swirling around me in its unchallenged swarm of emotions let loose

Taking me through lost places in meandering journey through life

Corners of deep experiences, life changing

Lived and quietly locked away for just moments like this

When your tune stirs all those memories

Silent pools quiescent stirred into blurry disturbed roiling streams-