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Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone
Posted: 18 May 2010, 07:31
by Silver_Owl
Procession moves on, the shouting is over,
Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone.
Talking aloud as they sit round their tables,
Scattering flowers washed down by the rain.
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden,
Watching them pass like clouds in the sky,
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment,
Possessed by a fury that burns from inside.
Cry like a child, though these years make me older,
With children my time is so wastefully spent,
A burden to keep, though their inner communion,
Accept like a curse an unlucky deal.
Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,
No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall.
15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980
R.I.P.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 07:51
by Pista
Rock In Peace.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 08:28
by Norman Hunter
Posted: 18 May 2010, 09:40
by abridged
Sadly missed.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 10:26
by radiojamaica
Posted: 18 May 2010, 10:27
by markfiend
Thirty years? Wow.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 11:25
by Izzy HaveMercy
Just something that strikes me as odd tho...
Why would people celebrate a day that someone killed himself?
As a tribute to someone, would it not be more appropriate to celebrate someones BIRTHday?
IZ.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 11:50
by Norman Hunter
It's not neccessarily a celebration, more of a day of rememberance of such a sad, untimely passing.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 11:53
by Izzy HaveMercy
Norman Hunter wrote:It's not neccessarily a celebration, more of a day of rememberance of such a sad, untimely passing.
According to people and radio stations behaving today, it looks like a festivity...
IZ.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 12:04
by Quiff Boy
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Why would people celebrate a day that someone killed himself?
it's about celebrating his life and his works
and we choose this day to do that, because it's probably the most significant day in his life, as well as being the day that his life and his works ceased.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 12:41
by Norman Hunter
Quiff Boy wrote:it's about celebrating his life and his works
and we choose this day to do that, because it's probably the most significant day in his life, as well as being the day that his life and his works ceased.
It also worked for Elvis.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 12:42
by Quiff Boy
Norman Hunter wrote:Quiff Boy wrote:it's about celebrating his life and his works
and we choose this day to do that, because it's probably the most significant day in his life, as well as being the day that his life and his works ceased.
It also worked for Elvis.
elvis ain't dead
Posted: 18 May 2010, 12:47
by Norman Hunter
Quiff Boy wrote:Norman Hunter wrote:Quiff Boy wrote:it's about celebrating his life and his works
and we choose this day to do that, because it's probably the most significant day in his life, as well as being the day that his life and his works ceased.
It also worked for Elvis.
elvis ain't dead
My point exactly.
Double
Posted: 18 May 2010, 13:26
by Silver_Owl
Quiff Boy wrote:Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Why would people celebrate a day that someone killed himself?
it's about celebrating his life and his works
and we choose this day to do that, because it's probably the most significant day in his life, as well as being the day that his life and his works ceased.
Well said.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 21:27
by MadameButterfly
We respect the deceased on their death date.
People have different ways of grieving or reliving the memories...
People have the luck of the music still being alive.
RIP Mr. Curtis.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 21:59
by Back in time
MadameButterfly wrote:
People have the luck of the music still being alive.
RIP Mr. Curtis.
That kind of music will stay alive forever. I like to believe that it presented a major change.
RIP
Posted: 18 May 2010, 22:25
by Bartek
celebrate with cake.
Posted: 18 May 2010, 22:28
by MadameButterfly
Back in time wrote:MadameButterfly wrote:
People have the luck of the music still being alive.
RIP Mr. Curtis.
That kind of music will stay alive forever. I like to believe that it presented a major change.
RIP
Indeed forever as we pass it onto generations below us. I couldn't agree with you more although around that time I was a wee one, but still respects that major change.
Posted: 19 May 2010, 03:03
by Sunsonic
Bartek wrote:celebrate with cake.
while you dance dance dance to the radio!!!
Posted: 19 May 2010, 08:41
by SteBacchus
He had the very rare ability of being able to articulate what was in his heart so that we could all understand/empathize, absolute (tormented) genius.
Sadly missed