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bs2 Mar 24, 2023

A reply to my morning e-mail yesterday about taking the day off,

> I think everyone would be happier if it were easier.

, prompted a Bob Marley soundtrack for people that feel like this but can't take a vacation day.

> They make their world so hard.."^1

> Where the living is hardest! ^2

^1 _One Drop_
(1992)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=q1fUfbAV_VA
(Lyrics)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JPsb4BvRkvI

^2 _Concrete Jungle_
(Live! Sweet Voices)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5R94DgGRg7w

#BobMarley #OneDrop #ConcreteJungle #Reggae

One Drop (1992) - Bob Marley & The Wailers

"One Drop" from Bob Marley & The Wailers' 1992 album, Songs of Freedom! Listen to the full album now on all major streaming and digital services at http://hyperurl.co/BM_songsoffreedom Discover more at http://www.bobmarley.com Subscribe to the channel: http://bobmarley.lnk.to/Subscribe ——————— Apple Music: https://stream.lnk.to/bobmarleyYD/applemusic Spotify: https://stream.lnk.to/bobmarleyYD/spotify Amazon: https://stream.lnk.to/bobmarleyYD/amazon Pandora: https://stream.lnk.to/bobmarleyYD/pandora Shop: https://shopmarley.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/bobmarley Instagram: https://instagram.com/bobmarley Twitter: @bobmarley Snapchat: @bobmarleymusic ——————— #OneDrop #BobMarley #SongsOfFreedom #BobMarleyAndTheWailers

Bob Marley | Invidious

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bs2 Mar 24, 2023

Posts got me thinking of poetry and my late arrival at an appreciation for it. I'm wondering if keeping lines from songs in your head, chewing and tasting them over and over, might work like poetry works for people that have a deep appreciation for it. Lines from #MaidQuiet^1 came to mind, search to verify them turned up an earlier version with #Hanrahan and #OurMotherOfPeace. ^2 Like the One Drop songs, the poems got simpler quieter??

^1 https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy031.htm
^2 https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/the-wind-among-the-reeds/30-hanrahan-laments-because-of-his-wanderings/

Later Poems of Yeats: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899): Maid Quiet

Later Poems by W.B. Yeats, at sacred-texts.com

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bs2

Lines from Bob Marley:

> Where the living is hardest...

> They made their world so hard..

and lines from Yeats:

> The winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.

> Now words that called up the lightning
Are hurtling through my heart.

recur in my mind the same sort of way. I still can't get the un-heard just-read poem lines to remain as exact as the often-heard performed-song lines though.

#Yeats #WBYeats #Poetry #Songs #BobMarley #ConcreteJungle #OneDrop #MaidQuiet