Well, it’s been raining all day here in Kansas City. The rain, cloudy skies, and stress have awakened my Irish melancholy. I am too overwhelmed by work (my real job) to post anything today. I have some nice ones in the hopper though, that hopefully will see the light of day in the next few days. But for now since we occasionally post poetry here I wanted to share with you one of my favorite “rain poems”. Actually it isn’t a poem but a song. “Kathy’s Song” in fact. It was written by Paul Simon and sung by Art Garfunkel. The lyrics are just so beautiful and personal to me.
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and wallsAnd from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England, where my heart lies
My mind’s distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you’re asleep
And kiss you when you start your day
And a song I was writing is left undone
I don’t know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can’t believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme
And so you see, I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you
And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I.
Those two wrote some great songs, didn’t they? Where would the seventies have been without “Sounds of Silence,” “Mrs. Robinson,” “He Ain’t Heavy,” and “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”? Or, oh oh oh — d’ye happen to remember a schitsy little ditty called “At the Zoo”? Haha! “Someone told me it’s all happenin’ at the zoo. I do believe it — I do believe it’s true…” 😊
That one was a bit of an odd, song. I remember it specifically because our Zoo here would play the song in TV commercials. Which is pretty funny
As they say these days, OMG, LOL! That’s a zoo with a sense of humor! I just loved that song for some reason. But then, I was fourteen, and loved all their songs. (Oh, wait, I still do!) “Sounds” wasn’t first solo vocal performance — quite the experience…
Re last message: WAS, not “wasn’t.” Autouncorrect gremlin strikes again
Autocorrect is the bane of my existence
Eye no, meat oo
LOL