Rallentanda

Rallentanda

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

O Take those lips Away

 

 take two music students

sitting on a stone wall

outside the church

waiting for the bus

armed with a cello and viola

take two wide eyed girls

who had just discovered alfred deller

and elizabethan music

completely wrapped 

(thank you Miss Pinwill)

take two giggling girls

crank starting an old Ford 

take two adventurous spirits

both disappearing from each other in pursuit

of their big dreams

take those two old sheilas

at the hardware store

half a century later

with nothing to say to each other


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7 comments:

  1. Rall, I liked all of your interesting scenarios. My favorites were the girls crank starting the car and the sheilas having nothing to say to each other. (I had to look up 'sheila.' LOL). Thanks for participating.

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  2. Wow! This is quite a journey! I can so relate with the end. Love the title, very cleverly done. Thanks for the music.

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  3. Now this is different, Rall! I love this autobiographical (?) take on the prompt. I haven’t listened to or played Elizabethan music in decades – thank you for reminding me of it. The ending is sad.

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  4. I love this progression through the stages of a life. I identify with the old sheilas - having talked through so much of our lives, one grows quieter, content to simply Observe, with a wry twinkle in our eyes.

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  5. Rall,
    A fantastic journey through the lives of two friends...their experiences as adventurous spirits, each going in a different direction, only to reunite and find a void in their relationship... a great movie with the perfect musical accompaniment..

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  6. I love this! The perfect example of why no two people are ever the same, never mind a whole bunch of them. One shared experience or enthusiasm doesn't make an unbreakable bond. We are each how life forms us, and how we form life.

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  7. Very clever - I think many grow up and relationships change - have wonderful memories of a long childhood best friend - but we have nothing in common now but the past...

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