Ryanne Molinari

An Active & Imaginative Life

July 28, 2016

Untuned

My heart is a violin

With strings played to the breaking,

And wound so tight I have no breath

Since the hour of waking.

Still sings my soul, though grown thin

So lost among a score,

And yearning for familiar rest

I failed to love before.

Poetry

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Ryanne Molinari (MLitt, University of St. Andrew’s) is a pianist/organist, pastor’s wife, and lover of words. She is the author of Spirit-Filled Singing: Bearing Fruit as We Worship Together, and her writing has been published in journals such as the Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK). Connect with Ryanne by subscribing to her blog or following her on Instagram.