Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana
San Francisco, 1974
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
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Herbstlich
Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
caresses in us, in their ground.
It isn't the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor--from breast to knees--
and the battle was so pure
an angel wears it after you.
― R M Rilke
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Decimista
In Latin America there is a long standing tradition of singing decimas. A decima is a ten line verse or stanza with a rhyming pattern of ABBAACCDDC. Decimas can be pre-written, but often they are improvised. Violeta Parra’s decimas are some of the most profound, beautiful and gripping. Like with the best decima writers, one gets the impression that she thought like that, indecimas. One of her most stunning achievements was writing her autobiography completely in decimas, a beautiful epic poem about the life of an incredible woman.
From Volver a los Diecisiete (Back to Seventeen):
What feelings can do
Wisdom is not able,
Nor the clearest of directions,
Nor the widest thought.
It can all change on the spot
Like some condescending magician,
Sweetly distancing our position
Away from rancor and discontent.
Only love with its sixth sense
Can bring our innocence to fruition.
Wisdom is not able,
Nor the clearest of directions,
Nor the widest thought.
It can all change on the spot
Like some condescending magician,
Sweetly distancing our position
Away from rancor and discontent.
Only love with its sixth sense
Can bring our innocence to fruition.
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