Wait! with an exclamation point is very different from waiting in general. There is a bit of both in these photos.
Then, there is always Tom Waits. My favorite. Here’s a sample of him as well:
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The Arts
Do stories flutter round your head and brush your ears with wings?
Do words sift down like embers and ignite sparks in things?
Do crystal visions in your eyelids scare away the blues?
Do new rhythms lift your spirits and install taps on your shoes?
Do staffs of music fall like rain to shift your mode of thinking?
Fall like water from the sky until you feel you’re sinking
into overtures of gratitude for what life has been giving:
words and music, art and dance that make your life worth living.
flutter stories haunt spark lift words wing staff shift water gratitude crystal
For Sunday Whirl Wordle 531
The topic for Song Lyric Sunday is “Heaven or Hell.” Given a choice, it will always be heaven for me, and my mind immediately settled on “My Blue Heaven,” my favorite version of which was recorded by Leon Redbone. The lyrics are pretty simple, but if you need to see them after you listen to the song, you can find the lyrics HERE.
Forgottenman found an opinion column suggesting that this 50-minute podcast by /reply-all/ is one of the most entertaining EVER. I love it, too. Maybe you will as well.
A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super Tech Support case. #158 The Case of the Missing Hit
Heartful Gatherings
Those who yawp on about rainbows and the weather are too wordy.
I’d rather converse at great length about topics more nerdy.
Crossed ankles and a pot of tea with polite conversation
seem somehow remiss in their mental titillation.
Give me feet up on the coffee table with a nerd or two—
both talk and a libation of a stronger brew.
Quantum physics, writing, music, games or art
make for a connection that is closer to my heart.
When it comes to cliques that I could be a part of,
I prefer to find a group that I can find the heart of.
Prompt words for today are connection, nerd, rainbow, yawp and group.
This performance by a father and his children is so touching. It was sent to me by my friend Sharon who received it from our friend Lynda. Isaac and Nora are two talented siblings from Quimper, France (originally from Seoul, South Korea) who melt the hearts around the world with their cover of a Cuban song “Veinte Años” . … The song is so popular that it has dozens of covers like Pablo Milanés, Diego El Cigala or the young Spanish Silvia Pérez Cruz.
The Voice of Music
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Someone just commented that there should be sound on this post, so here is Christina Anfossie’s musical rendition of my poem “Naughty little Pleasures.” https://judydykstrabrown.com/2018/04/03/set-to-music-naughty-little-pleasures/
For Cee’s Fun Foto: The Sense of Hearing.
For NaPoWriMo, they want us to write a poem that copies the style of a favorite song or type of music. I chose Jazz.music
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