Holiday Blue
~*Marge Tindal*~

She sang blue
a song or two
Sing of shade
darkened blue
Sang her song
then slips into
ordinary blues
of deeper hue
Lady Day they
idolized-wiping
tear from her
eyes-sang her
song then upon
darkened blue
Lady no longer
sang the blues


Tribute in memory of
Jazz and Blues Songstress
Billie Holiday
April 7,1915 - July 17,1957

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Now I am not lying - I had her CD on when I came to Pipps this minute!  Is that weird or what?  She is my all time favorite, along with Chet Baker, and there is another tragic story.  This picture has always said so much to me.  I am rambling but what the heck - the year Lady Sings the Blues was nominated for an oscar was the year Lisa Minelle was nominated for Caberet, and I was livid when this movie did not win, as Diana Ross did her justice big time.  Thanks for this tribute to one of jazz's greats.  Got one for Dorothy Dandridge?  Pushing my luck?  Guess you figured I loved this   You bet!

~*~ Remember to tell someone today that you love them as tomorrow may never come ~*~

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
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