Cancer 011 (Blues Nile) - title borrowed from song y John Hassell))

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Cancer 011 (Blues Nile) - title borrowed from song y John Hassell))

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2020-12-26 06:25 PM

Cancer 011
Blues Nile*

Listening to Blues Nile - John Hassell,
ethereal to say the least,
especially with closed eyes,
mind tuned to hear
only its voice,
heart beating slow beats,
soul floating
in that space
between life, and death.

Half-way through now.
no longer hearing . . .
only feeling, floating
in the vastness of space,
of time

It's Christmas Day -
How many more will I see.

Blues Nile
It speaks to me, today.

© wesley james beard, jr.
december 26, 2020

Blues Nile - song by John Hassell
(on youtube)

[This message has been edited by jwesley (12-27-2020 03:53 PM).]

Paul Wilson

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since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

1 posted 2020-12-27 12:43 PM

James...Sounds ethereal like you said.
Loved the visions you describe in this poem.

Getting lost in the mood and music is a beautiful thing.

We never know how many more Christmases we have, we just have to enjoy what we have and hope and pray another will be granted to us.

Stay strong my friend...Pasul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2020-12-29 11:49 AM

Jimmy,my very special friend,
you have a beautiful heart that you share so generously,creatively and poetically. Thanks for letting me/us share your journey. it is an honor. ~L

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

3 posted 2021-01-04 08:43 PM

very sensitive,
yann

Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

4 posted 2021-01-10 02:25 PM

Well said, my friend.

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

5 posted 2021-05-04 12:28 PM

I read this, listened to the song, and read this again. Maybe it's my mood, but for the song, I find it to be ominous.
Your words...the ending...I wonder the same thing, but for different reasons. Enjoyed!

"I know this love will tear me to pieces
I know his hands will dig up my secrets"

Meg Myers

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