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#elegy

Scholar-at-large
2 weeks ago

The crowd opens / rises like a row of poppies, / and subsides, / scattering peanut shells like petals.

George Bowering
Elegy 5
Kerrisdale Elegies

#poetry #elegy #conceit #baseball

Manuel JF
4 months ago
Jakobu wrote the following post Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:06:41 +0200

Faure









Élégie, Op. 24
by Jacqueline Du Pré - Topic on YouTube



#music #Faure #GabrielFauré #Jacquelinedupre #elegy #1880
Dave Lojek
4 months ago
Steve Silberman
5 months ago

What made #JeffBeck special to the musicians he inspired? This is the most beautiful and deep-reaching of the tributes I've read, from my old pal Probyn Gregory, a brilliantly talented multi-instrumentalist in Brian Wilson's band who toured with Jeff. #music #elegy

Probyn Gregory - One of the most original guitarists ever has passed today, Jeff Beck. I tried like crazy to play along with his jazz-fusion records in college, to little avail. His control of the vibrato arm was uncanny, and people, in case you haven't seen it elsewhere, he used no pick-- just fingers and mainly that devastating thumb, the like of which we will probably never see again. My friend Mike Zonshine has this to say about his playing-- "Dynamic, ever increasing vocabulary. Not afraid of redefinition. He was to guitar what Miles Davis was to trumpet." | can add that every time | saw him perform, he was out there on a limb soloing, WAY out there with no safety net, and in the 2% of the time when he crashed chasing an idea, he would grin that sheepish/devilish grin he had and shrug, accepting that this was part of the game. The Brian Wilson Band had the great good fortune to tour on the same bill with Jeff about 10 years ago. | had the extra bonus of being chosen to come up stage nightly during his set as part of the small vocal ensemble during his "How High the Moon" Les Paul tribute (though that didn't quite make it as far as the hometown show in LA, drat). He was rarely seen without a guitar in hand-- coming off the tour bus: with guitar. If you glanced into his dressing room: with guitar. Once even at catering: with guitar! | would use the word "obsessed" but | don't want to sound negative-- guitar was his life (that and vintage cars), his joyous HOME. [cont.]
Surazeus
5 months ago

High On Wings Of Infinity
© Surazeus
2022 12 29

Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento
23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022

The way he glides with grace across the grid
and kicks the ball in net of victory
highlights passion for the beautiful game
that inspires our hearts with adoring cheer
to watch Pele dance with the spinning sphere
arching high on wings of infinity.

#Pele #Poem #Poetry #Elegy #Soccer #Football #Futbol #WorldCup #ASelecao #OCanarinho

Alexander Huber
5 months ago

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me."

https://www.thomasgray.org/

#ThomasGray #Elegy #GrayAt306 #DallE #OpenAI

An image created by #DALL-E from the first stanza of Gray's "Elegy"
Jennifer Ebeling
6 months ago

#December 9, 1608
#OTD John #Milton, #English #Poet, is born.

His #Elegy, called #Lycidas, was dedicated to his #Friend, Edward King, who died young.

The #Poem mentions 11 #Flowers at his #Funeral including the #Primrose, #TuftedCrowToe, #Gessamine, #Pansy, #Violet, #MuskRose, #Woodbine, & #Cowslips.

The #Verse ends:

Every #Flower that #Sad #Embroidery wears:
Bid #Amaranthus all his #Beauty shed,
& #Daffadillies fill their cups with #Tears,
To strew the #Laureate #Hearse where #Lycid lies.

A statue of a woman gazes off toward the horizon. She leans against a wall next to a sleeping winged angel.
Surazeus
6 months ago

American Mork
© Surazeus
2014 08 13

Elegy for Robin Williams

A long, long time ago
I can still remember how
that laughter used to make me howl,
and I knew if I had my chance
that I could make those people laugh
and maybe they'd be happy for a while.

Whole Poem:
https://ello.co/surazeus/post/p5ensn5vmzsep4zj27p7sw

#RobinWilliams #Mork #AmericanMork #AmericanPie #Elegy #Jester #KingOfFools #JesterKing #HighPriest #Comedian #Actor #CaptainMyCaptain #DeadPoetsSociety #DeadPoet #MetaModernism #MetaRomanticism

Jennifer Ebeling
6 months ago

The #Zinnias -cut-and-come-again-
are dry as #Mother's #Hair. They crush
beneath my hand. The #Lilies, though,

are further gone than that, sunk down
into their #Bulbs, as #Mother has
gone underground. Each #Spring they burst

into their almost human flesh -
#White #Blooms like all they've ever made.
But not the #Same.

- Andrew #Hudgins, #November #Garden: An #Elegy

#Garden #Flowers, #Autumn #Forest #Woods #Seasons #Poetry #Writer #Author
#GardenersofMastodon

A dried flower head - maybe an echinacea?