Tag: music
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Et Lux Perpetua
We are five, we are ninety-two, sometimes shining gold, others flying sky blue. We are Beethoven symphonies and ballads and blues, with Picasso and Van Gogh in all their hues. We are pencil and paper but speedy computers too,with AI and robots and rockets that flew. We are cardinals and robins and pigeons galore,with turkeys…
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Thanksgiving
A nice long phone call from one of my children Joyful news of the coming of my first grandchild A long hug with my wonderful husband A text from another of my children, “I love you, Mama” Sweet visit with one of my brothers and his angel wife Gorgeous blooming of lantana out my window…
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Ode to the Concussion
Pain, pain, go away!Never come another day.Leave your lessons at the door,Surely I have made the score? Vertigo, vertigo, please be done,Don’t you know, you help no one?You create a turbulent shore,There is nothing I hate more. Noise, noise, why so loud?Even when there’s not a crowd?Please be soft, please be still,You are…
Treasures Along the Way 