Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Birthdays
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Today is the birthday of Billie Holiday and of William Wordsworth. Two poetic people who had a phenomenal way with words. Despite her and his travails, each made listeners/readers feel optimistic. What is more lovely - except the flowers themselves - than "I wandered lonely as cloud" which ends:
A host, of golden daffodils;
beside the lake, beneath the trees,
fluttering and dancing in the breeze. . . .
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
and dances with the daffodils.
And didn't anything Holiday sang sound wonderful even if the lyrics were poignant? Tell you what: you memorize or recite a Wordsworth poem and I'll hum a Holiday song . . . and/or vice versa. Deal?

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Two Billies!
from Blogger ligneus – April 7, 2009 at 9:56 PM

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