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Open Poetry #39

Yodeling Down

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Member Rara Avis

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0 posted 2006-10-26 04:20 PM

Yodeling Down

Great-grandfather
yodels boldly down
from a high Bavarian
plateau;

that is how I see him
in my imaginings,
two worlds away.

Bavaria isn’t in
Switzerland
but it’s easier to
spell,

and he probably
did the same thing
there:

tend cows.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

1 posted 2006-10-26 04:42 PM

I just absolutely love this.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Martie

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2 posted 2006-10-26 10:46 PM

Yep...he probably did.

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

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3 posted 2006-10-26 11:53 PM

"Bavaria isn’t in
Switzerland
but it’s easier to
spell"

your poems are so concrete
dry
they give me pause
good pause

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

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4 posted 2006-10-27 01:35 PM

So, that's why you look somehow familiar!

A Swiss friend of mine gave me a CD with a Holy Mass completely sung in the Jodel-mode... (sounds funny). There is the Halleluja part that brings me goosebumps ... and sometimes I try to sing it ... of course only when I am alone in the car!!

Loved your imagining past Jodel performances by your Great-Grandfather!

Love,
Margherita

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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5 posted 2006-10-28 02:04 PM

Ed~
What a tender render~

My grandma was a yodeler ... when she was
upset with grandpa ... she'd start to yodeling to beat the band ... no way that Grandpa couldn't get the message !!

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - noles1@totcon.com

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

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6 posted 2006-11-17 02:35 PM

I love the stories I hear about my ancestors... but even more... I love being left with my imaginings... *S*

And he might well have yodeled to his cows, yanno. *S*

I love this... excellent work!!

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