Lest we forget...

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:20 pm

Over the past few weeks many things have been said here and many people have shown their true colours. It has left this place changed. While things in the world are about to unfold, this may be something to think about.

I greet you all,

Peter

Though there are torturers in the world
There are also musicians;
Though at this moment
Men are screaming in prisons,
There are jazzmen raising storms
Of sensuous celebration
And orchestras releasing
Glories of the spirit.

Though the image of God
Is everywhere defiled
A man in west Clare
Is playing the concertina,
The Sistine Choir is levitating
Under the dome of St. Peter's
And a drunk man
On the road
Is singing
For no reason.

Michael Coady

from Two for a woman, Three for a man: Michael Coady , Gallery Press. 1990 ©

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:37 pm

That's exactly the thing I came to C&F for: the beautiful absurdity of making music in the face of it all.

Thanks, Peter.

N

CraigMc · Post by **CraigMc** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:42 pm

Very touching Peter.

I like to believe the same as Tolkien that there was music in the beginning and there will be music in the end.

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:46 pm

Yes, thanks, Peter--beautiful. Nanohedron, me too.

Carol

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:48 pm

Thank you, Peter.

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:16 pm

Agreed, Peter.

The transatlantic slanging-match that we're seeing here saddens me. I wonder will C&F ever be the same again.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:23 pm

Thanks, Peter.
You're being short-worded and sensible as usual. So, what's changed?

lauragayle · Post by **lauragayle** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:46 pm

thank you for posting this most appropriate poem.

pacem-

laura

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:49 pm

Thank you, Peter, I needed that. I almost didn't read it, as I'm boycotting all political threads as of last night, but I'm glad I decided to check and see what this was. I'm going to print it out and carry it with me over the next few weeks.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:59 pm

Lovely poem.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:03 pm

Nice poem, Peter. Thanks for posting it.

Claus von Weiss · Post by **Claus von Weiss** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:10 pm

Thanks, Peter, for posting this beautiful verses. In times like these we all need the encouragement and healing, music and poetry can bring.

Claus

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:25 am

There has been political discussion on this board in the past that has been insightful and illuminating. I would hate to see that disappear. But recently I have only looked in on political threads occasionally and have been deeply saddened by much of what I've seen. I have occasionally declined to post, even to correct elementary historical or philosophical mistakes, in part because I thought that the person being addressed simply would not want to know.

Thanks Peter for helping to restore the sanity we need now, and in the coming weeks, more than ever.

John