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[aid] => Mick
[title] => The Minstrel is Leaving
[time] => 2003-02-22 12:00:00
[hometext] => In honour and with dedication to my dear friend Tam Harvey - A man of rare talent and divine integrity- With my love and relentless friendship.
[bodytext] => Have you heard the minstrel’s laugh?
His old friends sleep in photographs Reminiscent ponderings, Of smoky rooms and guitar kings. Have you seen the minstrel cry? As melodies refuse to die While yesterdays discordant ghosts Drone their tuneless victory toasts, Have you held the minstrel’s hand? That led one time a merry band Where wood and steel made vibrant bond As friendships one by one abscond And of the love the minstrel plays? In tuneful, sweet, harmonic ways An opera called divinity That only purest hearts can see Have you watched the minstrel fight? For all he was, with all his might The bottle and the bottleneck Like violent tides upon a wreck Someone fetch the minstrel’s hat For time enough this place he’s sat Where critics picked away his vim And plucked his very soul from him The minstrel packed his bag of things Plectrums, capos, snaps and strings A favourite book, a talisman The simple needs of music men As dust disturbed by sturdy stride Attempted not his trail to hide A wandering the minstrel knew Would lead him to the end of blue Can you see the minstrel now? Among the birds and apple bows His road is now an avenue As trees grow flavoured blossom new Barley fields sway to and fro As skies place perfect cloud on show With songs of joy and dreams to play The day the minstrel walked away. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 426 [topic] => 55 [informant] => Terry_Stephen_Driscoll [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => dedicatedpoems )
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