Poetry in Song and Elsewhere

Have you ever heard a song and was mesmorized from the first moment you heard it? Yes, I have mentioned Patty Griffin on previous blog entries. Griffin is capable of the most hauntingly beautiful melodies. The lyrics are poignant and the music is more poignant.

"Someone Else's Tomorrow"

by Patty Griffin

Have you ever been baptized in the cool winter water

On a Sunday morning when the sky was gray?

You filed out of the churchyard, so cold it was silver

To gold, tan, and blue cars, and the cars drove away

All the memories fade, send the ghosts on their way

Tell them they've had their day, it's someone else's tomorrow

The tall and the tiny ships on the water

Farther and farther, floating away

Will never return now, all wooden and burned out

They echo and groan now in their salty graves

All the memories fade, send the the ghosts on their way

Tell them they've had their day, it's someone else's tomorrow

Someone else's tomorrow

Speaking of poetry, some of the most wonderful stuff can be found at http://www.writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

"ONCE IN THE FORTIES"

by William Stafford

We were alone one night on a longroad in Montana.

This was in winter, a big ight, far to the stars.

We had hitched,my wife and I, and left our ride ata crossing to go on.

Tired and cold-but brave we trudged along.

This, we said,was our life, watched over, allowed to go where we wanted.

We said we'd come back some time when we got rich,

We'd leave the others and find night like this, whatever we had to give,

and no matter how far, to be so happy again.

Just one of the gems of poetry read by Garrison Keillor. Thanks Garrison for adding infinite meaning to my life.