I can almost hear her foot print still in the front yard I’m sure she is just behind me looking for me I say her name out loud but there is no answer her happy voice – no more.

Never see her overlooking the front [...]]]> It cannot be right once again – a loss

I can almost hear her
foot print still in the front yard
I’m sure she is just behind me
looking for me
I say her name out loud
but there is no answer
her happy voice – no more.

Never see her overlooking the front yard again.

This is not fair
It’s only a year since last
the trust, love and hopes
again slipping through our fingers.

on the heather
we will meet
from time to time
lady, Cassie and now Tessa
family members

By getting together the best place is Visemøllen. More or less comfortable placed, there is far to the bar. a chain reaction must be activated before the beer reaches your thirsty throat, but the mood is good surprises are on the menu From [...]]]> A pebble thrown at Tønder
ripples of music
travel far away

By getting together
the best place is Visemøllen.
More or less comfortable placed,
there is far to the bar.
a chain reaction must be activated
before the beer reaches your thirsty throat,
but the mood is good
surprises are on the menu
From Line Dance
to the traveling man’s blues
and remember
always carry a coin in your back pocket.

a bit of agreed talk for some
I know
but come to Tønder Folk Festival
and especially Visemøllen next year

Where there is a willpower there’s a seat,
but it’s best to book in advance

Last weekend of Summer
the sun went on vacation
Tønder Folk Festival

The concert was a birthday gift I was delighted looking forward to this event To use a modern word, at least in Danish. After a long [...]]]> some years ago I went to a concert with The McCalmans and wrote a “poem talk” in Danish, I have translated it now more than 4 years after:

The concert was a birthday gift
I was delighted looking forward to this event
To use a modern word, at least in Danish.
After a long drive
We arrived at Holstebro.
A small beer at Fox & Hounds
We had the time.
Later we found the place me and  my soul mate,
Knudsen’s a small cozy venue
Moreover recently restored.
We came into the hall -
It was here we realized
Was it really the right place?
Well it was the right  place.
We looked at our fellow audience for this concert
And our doubt came back.
Was this really McCalmans on the poster?
We came in
And the musicians came on stage
Well luckily it was McCalmans
That means it took a while to recognize Ian and Nick
Ian’s gray hair – Nick’s a bit squared body
But the sound – voices did not disappoint.
Then it dawned on me
We were among the mature audience with some of their favorite musicians
They looked older – maybe even older -
I wonder how did we look?
It is time to admit, albeit reluctantly
We did not get any younger ourselves.
We follow time
We are older – yes
But our minds are still young
And that is good -
And if Mike Jagger
Can jerk around on stage
In his retirement
at full blast of his youth music
Then we can maintain our youth by listening to the music from our youth.  
And despite age
our mind is what counts.

After this poem-talk I made a Haiga, going to yet another concert or rather a festival, we call it “Late Summer Rock” 2010, and one of the bands was “copy” band (a sound like band) the Led Zeppelin Jam. Under this concert  I stood again among the fans of late Led Zeppelin from 1970’teens and the only difference was the gray hair, but the delight of the sound was the same.

in corridors
of memory lane
Led Zeppelin
jam the remembering’s

We shall overcome and you know the rest. It’s amazing what a simple song prior to the famous one can become. from “I will overcome” to “We will overcome” derived from gospel song it was published in 1947 by Charles Albert Tindley. [...]]]> A song line can be the start of a movement – true.

We shall overcome and you know the rest.
It’s amazing what a simple song prior to the famous one can become.
from “I will overcome” to “We will overcome” derived from gospel song it was published in 1947 by Charles Albert Tindley. Eventually Zilphia Horton taught it to Pete Seeger.  He and many others included it in their repertoire. At one point, maybe Pete Seeger, it changed from “will” to “shall”. It’s very much a collected contribution of many in this song.

As you know the lyrics says “We shall overcome someday”  at which you could say “someday has been said for thousands’ of years” this someday gives the hope, if one said “next week” it would be promise, one that couldn’t be kept.

To know
what you are
who you are
what you can
what you feel
you will overcome
we shall overcome
someday
even, this has been said
in  a thousands’ years
every tributaries
from I to We
will lead
from violent
to peacefully action
to a free people
I ain’t afraid – she sang
of what you say, believe
or how you live
I’m afraid of
what you do
in the name of your God

Though we shall overcome – someday
it might be a bloody road ahead

We shall overcome
we shall overcome
someday
keep an eye on the price
can we pay – someday

-

she sang: Holly Near

Remembering that when we in 1963 moved from a southern town to a more northern town it seems [...]]]> There was a discussion a little while ago about thunder & lightning in the past, present and future.
Remembering the thunder & lightning in the past as rather impressive events and treated with respect and awe.

Remembering that when we in 1963 moved from a southern town to a more northern town it seems to have more thunder & lightning, we still treated it with the respect as one should do, with this kind of nature’s magnificent events.

Up to the present days when in short time there has been two lightning strikes – one on a golf course and one on a soccer ground. The first one deadly, and the second is still in debate between the doctors and the masters above.

Our discussion ran along the line whether man was growing reckless, thinking we do as we please, and do it regardless of that nature is a powerful force, not to taken lightly.

Only fools
defy a true force of nature
thunder and lightning