Music, Arts and Society
Poem and Music at 70
“ngamashumi ayisikhombisa” (At 70)
“Passage” (for Rabbi Bill Berk on his 70th Birthday)
At bullet speed
out the shudder
one way
now, forever.
Laser-focused
trip’s, near end,
begins now,
huge crowds,
autographs, accolades, YAY!
(I be kidding).
I have loved,
been loved,
transported,
sung my tunes,
been blessed.
The churning inside
is the engine
even at this ripe young age
so much to do, to say, to try,
to find, to see, to touch, smell, taste,
at breakneck speed,
a life to create,
to love,
closing off filigree,
lingering ‘round details
and yes,
I loaf and invite my soul,
the wondrous free pass
to freedom.
******** click to play music: “Passage” for percussion, prepared guitar, and bass flute; Steve Peskoff, Jeffery Kowalsky and Stephen Horenstein
“Aging is an extraordinary process when you become the person you always should have been.” David Bowie
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“Aging can be fun, if you lay back and enjoy it”, Clint Eastward
“Elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.”
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