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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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SIBLINGS THE MUSIC OF A LANGUAGE 15 January 2011 To hear the music a language speaks you need to not understand a word. THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC 15 January 2011 To hear the language that music speaks, you need to turn your senses six on to high alert and let every note flood your spirit and seep through every corner of your frame and envelop you in a tonal bubble that speaks to you in ways beyond words that cannot be unlearnt the rest of your days. Owl |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
profound, succinct, AND enjoyable...now, I would call that a homerun (do you play baseball in south africa?) |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Yes, you have it just exactly right! That universal language, made for the communication between the earth and the skies with mere insignificant humans in the middle. Loved this. I remember listening to Andreas Bocheli one night and although not understanding Italian, I actually cried. Eric Love does not look after it's own interests. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Music. You got it, Owl. It has been the rallying cry of the destitute and impoverished, the anthem to nations great and small, but mostly music comes the closest to incorporating the soul, or what stands for the soul, as anything on earth. Words, mere words, gain momentous clarity when reeds and strings and keys are blown through, fretted and fingered are introduced to them. Long live the music. ~ Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils? / Because They Have Big Fingers. ~ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Music crosses so many barriers... Thank you, Diana, for a poem well done! |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
I agree, music and language, are both beautiful things. Currently, I'm attempting to learn Korean, I absolutely adore that language  Music, ah....I can't even imagine life without music, and I happen to be learning to play the guitar too.  Enjoyed.-Trina |
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faithmairee Senior Member
since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441Poe Haven, USA |
you write so beautifully and on a subject i love...this is a great wonderful poem...i enjoyed it so much! Faith There must be a poem in here somewhere. |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
You write so well on so many different subjects, Diana. Love the way your mind works. Ida |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Music has less to do with listening with your ears than it does feeling with your body and soul. Loved this. Lori |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Steaven. I am glad you enjoyed it. Blush, blush, I think we play a little baseball in South Africa. I don’t know much about sport. I played netball and hockey at school, love gym classes and rode horses most of my life, and kept fit on nature trails, but that is about it. Sports channels on TV don’t call out to me much, but, thanks! I am glad you felt it was worth a home run! Smiles. Thank you, Eric. I am glad you could relate. Thank you, Jerry. I loved what you said about music and words. Languages can be beautiful too. I think French and Zulu are two of the most beautiful flowing languages I have heard. I wrote a poem about the sound of the names of Japanese gymnasts in a team and an African language from north of our borders I heard a woman speak on TV, features largely in another poem of mine. Thank you, Karilea. Yes, music certainly does cross so many barriers. Thank you, Trina. I haven’t heard Korean, but I met 2 young people who were Korean and I loved their accents. Talking about accents, I love listening to accents. I wish I could collect them and bottle them and let the genie of any language of my choice out to listen to and then put it back into the bottle to savour whenever the fancy takes me. I love languages too. My first language is English (my mother was Scottish and my father was South African English and his grandparents or great-grandparents were from England). My husband was Afrikaans. I am fluent in Afrikaans and French. I speak more Zulu than the averge white South African, and I have a tiny smattering – or I did many years ago – of German. I bought a book at a book sale called Teach Yourself Russian, and got as far as the alphabet and (probably bad) pronunciation years ago. I would love to find the time to work through the book. I did Attic Greek as part of my degree, but of course, that wasn’t spoken Greek, but I loved that passionately. I play the piano (badly) and it is one of my favourite instruments (along with the flute and the harp and several others), but I think that to be able to play the guitar must be wonderful, especially because it is so portable. Enjoy learning Korean and the guitar, as I am sure you will. Thank you Faith, for your very kind words. I am glad you enjoyed them so much. Ida, you honour me with what you say and you have made what is left of my evening! Thank you. Oh, I do so agree with you Lori. The ears are merely the means through which the music fills the body and soul. Thank you. I am glad you loved them. Owl |
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Rex Allen McCoy Member Elite
since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863Sippin a Timmy's in London |
I have always loved music ... especially instrumentals. where I can settle into my easy chair and let the music set my mind adrift.  I do some of my best sleeping that way ... (dreaming) |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Yes, Rex, music massages and soothes the soul. Owl |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
you speak the music of the spheres with your poetry Diana and this poem is especially lovely... |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
Wow, Zulu, and German? I've been told that Russian and German are two of the hardest languages to learn. The Piano, It would probably take a lifetime for me to master, even the basics of piano playing, only cause I can't seem to recognize which key is which ha they all look the same  Thanx Owl  -Trina |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thanks for your reply Trina. No, German is very easy. There are lots of rules, though, but that makes it so much easier. I would think that Korean would be very difficult. I had heard that Chinese is possibly the most difficult language to learn. I would think that English must be very difficult to learn as a 2nd language - grammar and pronunciation rules seem to have more exceptions than regularities! Piano keys are what you see is what you get and a lot easier (for me) to get to know than guitar strings. You guitarists seem to create magic and a million notes out of so few strings - far too difficult for me! I have no idea whether Russian grammar is difficult as I only got as far as the pronunciation which seemed pretty straightforward to me. The alphabet (though fascinating) has similarities with Greek which I was studying at the time, and was, in fact, one of the things that attracted me to the book in the first place. Owl |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
"The ears are merely the means through which the music fills the body and soul." so true...and I think music also touches...I certainly can feel it. M |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Kate, I missed your beautiful reply. Thank you, I am very honoured. Your responses are so often so exquisitely poetic and this one is WOW! Owl |
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