JEAN BAPTISTE LULLY'S LIFE
(1632- 1687)

On a snowy December Sunday
we awoke at A.M
hearing the F.M. radio
playing the Baroque
master composer
Jean Baptiste Lully
with his "Psyche"
remembering from harmony class
about post polyphony
not regretting
the knowing critics
of the motet and the Mass
remembering this composer
of France's court culture
supporting his invention
of the overture for orchestral
interlude, recitative and air
with its instrumentalist music
at the least passing scales
in different moods to share
who also wrote for the dance
and notably collaborated
with the poet Moliere.