Your talk of the Brothers Grimm put me in mind of this.
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 01:50 pm
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 01:50 pm
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Letty
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 01:51 pm
Ah, well. Guess I better get my priorities straight again. My beth and her dog Jac, are delightful.
Today is Maya Angelou's birthday, so let's feature one of her poems.
Poem by Maya Angelou :
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 01:51 pm
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 02:23 pm
Well, I'm confused. Anyone surprised? Don't know how I missed all the great contributions, but I loved The Impalas, edgar and Pushman, The Bonzo Dog Band was great.
Letty, I had to screw around with my "outdated browser" to finally see and hear the youtube by Binge and V olegov. Both "lovely" works as you noted. Thanks very much for what I presume to be a lovely dedication..
JL
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Fri 4 Apr, 2014 05:50 pm
Saying goodnight a bit early as my Beth is leaving tomorrow and I still have the
sniffles.
I remember him best in To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted from another one hit wonder by Harper Lee. Just a reminder to all of our listeners and contributors, Truman Capote edited the book.
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Sat 5 Apr, 2014 08:54 am
Capote was a better than average writer. I just didn't care for the books he wrote, as a matter of taste.