For you................

A litmus test of what was.

Nice Letty

Cheers!
t

Thank you tcb, and welcome to A2K. That was a very personal poem my friend.

Exquisite Letty and very heartfelt.

(((hugs)))

Ah, Bella. Thank you, honey. It has been so long since I have written a poem here. It was indeed inspired, as I am certain that you know.

And a big hug for you as well, my dear.

Letty,

That's very poignant.
Please accept my condolences on your recent loss.


It reminded me of this song.


the dutchman..

The Dutchman's not the kind of man
To keep his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in
But that's a secret only Margaret knows

When Amsterdam is golden in the morning
Margaret brings him breakfast
She believes him
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow
He's mad as he can be but Margaret only sees that sometimes
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes

(chorus)
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee
Long ago, I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me

The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes
His cap and coat are patched with love
That Margaret sewed in
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam
He watches tugboats down canals
And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain
'Til Margaret comes to take him home again
Through unforgiving streets
That trip him though she holds his arm
Sometimes he thinks that he's alone and calls her name

(chorus)

The windmills whirl the winter in
She winds his muffler tighter,
They sit in the kitchen
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew
He sees her for a moment, calls her name
She makes the bed up humming some old love song
She learned it when the tune was very new
He hums a line or two, they hum together in the night
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.

(chorus)

Imur, that song is lovely. Thank you, Irish. My eyes just misted a bit, but I can blame it on allergies. <smile>

Letty Wrote: Thank you tcb, and welcome to A2K

Ah how quickly we forget…Remember Maple Syrup?
Our conversations re FAS (whom you did not recognize from his initials)
Sure it was almost three years ago, but some of my writing rests within these servers
ted

Oh, my gawd, tcb. Francis Albert Sinatra? Oh, yes. Now I remember, and what a cheeky brat I was saying, "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know about Frank." my apologies for that stupid remark.

Oh Please Letty
I don't recall the comment... And you were rather congenial…Besides, I'm so confident in my Sinatra knowledge-base (from both a musical and biographical perspective) I probably ignored it.
But since you made the gesture I accept
I'm glad to see you're still contributing and holding down the fort
I too contributed…. a pathetic little doggerel type excoriation of sorts... if you're so inclined to cringe:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1699598#1699598

t

Good morning, tcb and all. I think I'll transplant your poem here since I don't like rap battles.

What happened to the poem?
Those 14 line sonnets
With couplets well honed
Were they erased by the ages
Relegated to pages unknown
Thrown in a heap by the side of the road
Are there only rhymes these days
Seemingly thrown and sown with
Haphazard pride
Vulgar to their core
Besmirching creative purity
As if the F Word could cure illiteracy
Purporting that bullying and badgering
Is a from of artistry
The meek, the intellectually weak
Only think they are writing
When in truth they are fighting
The world

I really like that, buddy, especially the summation, "When in truth they are fighting the world."

As Winton Marsalis observed, "rap is modern day minstrel."

Incidentally, buddy. He's a very fine musician.

Ahh Letty
Thanks for transporting me out of that place to here where I can breathe in that salt air...Mmmmm!
As for Marsalis, yes a fine musician, though I usually take his style of Jazz in small doses.
t

The music teacher is the one,
Who strikes a chord of native son.
We may not understand the style,
But, oh my friend,
Jazz is worth while.

Beautifully said.
I liked the show he organized at Lincoln Center for Katrina Relief
BTW, in today's world of jazz; Diana Krall is the tops IMO

Indeed she is, tcb. Bo of Toronto also tuned me in to Holly Cole. Both do the old ballads so wonderfully well.

Holly Cole…yes...dark...but authentic
Do you know:
Stacy Kent?
Tierney Sutton?
Patricia Barber?
Maude Maggart?
Jane Monheit?
All great contemporary ladies of the American Songbook

ah, tcb. I'm afraid that I don't know those ladies, my friend, but I most certainly will check them out.

You do that... you won't be disappointed

I would like all of you to join us on our cyber radio station, WA2K radio.

We just hit our first year of broadcasting. One year old today.

tcb, that's the place to be if you like music, news, history, bio's, etc.

Going on the air right now to check out Hawkman's bio's for today.

While I'm not too sure about the format Letty, I did do a little on air cameo in the form of a "Spot" (Commercial)
Hope I didn't offend anyone