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nhills

Posts: 230
Joined: Jul. 13 2003
From: West Des Moines, IA USA

Sonnet

Hi!
I wrote this a couple of years ago, and thought you might enjoy it. Or hate it... Or Groan... Or...

On Hearing Diego del Gastor

Among the twisted lanes, Al-Andalus
Is home and rack for gypsies bred to fear
From years of heartless death and cruel abuse,
Their sorrows unappeased by loves that sear.
This wail and beat of passion without hope,
The stoic pain and dignity of songs
Vented to express a universal trope,
Defying the death that magnifies the wrongs.
A guitar whose silver frets ordain the pitch,
The shadows mass, the spruce and cypress weep.
He strops a razor on our nerves, with rich
Rough rasps, intense and brutal in their sweep.
A keening howl of shredded chords - this his
Pulsing cry - the blackened sounds - of that which IS.

Cheers,
Norman

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 20 2004 17:17:26

Ron.M

Posts: 7051
Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland

RE: Sonnet (in reply to nhills)

Thanks for that Norman,
Personally, I don't think things have changed much since those times.
We still have the weeping Mothers of sons meeting an untimely death in war in foreign fields....
We still have plenty injustice in the World to sing about, that's for sure.
Flamenco just goes on, speaking of the happinesses and sadnesses of life as it always has done.
Although we may have Mobile phones, fast cars and Microwave Cookers, those things shield none of us from real life, that's for sure!

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Nov. 20 2004 20:02:45