It’s hardto pick a favoritewhen swaddled with losstucked in penitencecaught flat-footedInterstellar traveleryou’re a rock starbut your eyesregister discontentearned with senescenceCockilyyou queue up Blackstarand all is forgivenin a rushof empyreal forebodingIt gets dark earlyelegiacin listmaking seasonturns out our heroesare not immortal after all
Today is David Bowie’s birthday.
The first posthumous birthday is a sad occasion. Your memorial is very poignant - a reminder that a life may touch that of others long after it is done.
ReplyDeleteHe was awesome!
ReplyDeleteI've cranked up a good bit of Bowie in the last couple of days. This is a beautiful tribute to the loss of a legend.
ReplyDeleteEspecially loved those last 3 lines -
ReplyDeleteNice reading, Marian. A little poem with a big reminder, our heros aren't perfect, goes for elected officials too. I am Star Wars ignorant so I right off related to 'ones' kids. About of the five, the one you love most very likely is the one you bail out of jail (at 3;30 in the morning).
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Love how you weaved it in... It made me ponder David Bowie and his last recordings being released in an EP this week (I have not listened to them yet). I'm sure there is a black star up above..
ReplyDeleteI love the interstellar traveler.
ReplyDeletejust for one day ~
ReplyDeleteBowie did give everything away, with lavish generosity, and yes, "Blackstar" is such a rush "of empyreal (empyrean?) foreboding" -- one reviewer called it the angst of drowning, which is not the ocean of death. How did we get a rock star at all who lived both as long and fertile as Bowie? And to die on the day you're hippest achievement ever is released -- that's like dying at 27. In memoriam, yes.
ReplyDeleteturns out our heroes
ReplyDeleteare not immortal after all... so true!!!
That last stanza is like waking up one day and realizing that the darkness (and not the good kind of dark) is always around us, even when the sun is shining in the sky.
ReplyDeleteahh so poignant and well expressed
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are not immortal after all
there's a whole other sense of immortality that comes after their physical though - these stars reach a new level of hyperfame and are ironically much more celebrated and remembered than they ever were before
This is such a beautiful tribute to Bowie!
ReplyDeleteI love being in your head.
ReplyDeleteI love being there when Bowie is there, too.
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