Bluesman Bob Walsh

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Tchocolatl
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Bluesman Bob Walsh

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"He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."

Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
Diane

Re: Bluesman Bob Walsh

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Thanks for the music of another recently lost Québécois.

I like this Hendrix cover that youtube kindly suggested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQN0qeCdJeI

So glad you alighted back on the forum, stubborn friend:-)

Au revoir.
Tchocolatl
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Re: Bluesman Bob Walsh

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Diane wrote: stubborn friend:-)
Blue Alert, may I say.

Expressing feelings through artistic voice of others feels sometime like something good to do.

Like Bartleby did with this soft, beautiful poem in the other thread.

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A prophet of doom Leonard Cohen ? Naaaaaaaaa : Superfullmoon, yes.


Just listen to him. You hear it. It is against doom. Against darkness.

Doom happens. Dark times are here. Since a while.

He faced it all and then enlighten it, by reflection of some Light of him. This happens in the inner world. This is what I meant. If you listen carefully.


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Lizzy,

"Jean" : it's a man's name in French. (My, oh my!)
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"He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."

Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
Diane

Re: Bluesman Bob Walsh

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Yes, Bartleby's poem is gentle and tender. It alludes to fragrances. Like (Leonard and Anjani's) Blue Alert: There's perfume burning in the air/Bits of beauty everywhere; like On the Level: Your crazy fragrance all around/Your secrets all in view.

I am reminded of The Beauty Of Death by Khalil Gibran, which begins:

Let me sleep, for my soul is intoxicated with love and
Let me rest, for my spirit has had its bounty of days and nights;
Light the candles and burn the incense around my bed, and
Scatter leaves of jasmine and roses over my body;
Embalm my hair with frankincense and sprinkle my feet with perfume,
And read what the hand of Death has written on my forehead.

This is a nice read: http://www.techofheart.co/2008/08/perfu ... story.html
The one eternal perfume is the one that smells of Nothing of God;
Tchocolatl wrote: *

A prophet of doom Leonard Cohen ? Naaaaaaaaa : Superfullmoon, yes.


Just listen to him.
If he is a prophet of doom, then he is also a prophet of hope: "The moon is my sorrow. The moon is my lantern." (That wonderfully succinct quote stolen from John Hiatt, discovered in this music section - I love it!)

But shhhh. Just listen - I agree.
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Re: Bluesman Bob Walsh

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Walsh, his identity, it's as Irish as the rest, actually. Multifacetted people are we.

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As I mourn the artist, which will live forever has he did a line or... (O.K. we known, he ?) I sometimes skip the reality of the death of the... (we all know this either). Still the sphere of the private... life (eh oui...) to me, this is to say : a sacred right to be respected. But I feel a pang every time it hits me, the dark reality.
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"He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."

Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
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