There’s a sad pattern of loss and poverty as inevitable as dry skin along the hairline Are they too close to see it, too close to embrace a change… or do they see it, too tired or discouraged to even reach for it?
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Contemporaries. Two faces at the table a world apart ages separated locked in conversation in the same moment in the same dull sound of coffee brewing on the same earth tasting the same dust. The post At the Same Time | Roger Still appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
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Dedicated to my nice Romanian friend Vasile You are my inspiration, every day. You are the smile on my face. You are sparkle in my eyes. You are the only song I want to sing. You are my light in the darkness, My strength when I’m too weak, My voice when I speak. My smile,…
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They assemble, they note they sway in unison. Ask them the ten question quiz, they will smirk. This they do not note. They have no reason, no remark, no railing force to see what words these demarcations attempt to explore. But hand them the right narrative, let them speak the story from depth of soul…
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SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928) Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, cond. (4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing the tune in ’27 at the Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow in a play called Roar, China. In one…
