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 |  Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. |
| A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025.(provided I live that long, of course). |
| Mark Knopfler A simple man of frame most spare unimposing upon the air with voice so still to tell the tale while his guitar doth weep and wail and so he breaks the empty hush with gentle notes while mem’ries rush the music swells with passion strong then fades away to yearn and long and so he fills the gathered throng with days of youth and soaring song each gifted note to pluck their strings to lift them up and make them sing so in the end they live a life in other’s tales of love and strife. Line count: 28 Rhymed abcb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 25 Prompt: Music. Notes: Mark has been described as the most lyrical of all lead guitarists and there is no doubt he deserves that accolade. But he is much more as well. He unfailingly finds the most beautiful variations of any melody when improvising in those extended lead breaks so typical of him. in this, he is more akin to a modern Johann Sebastian Bach than the vast run of rock musicians. As a lyricist, too, he is outstanding, finding subjects close to his heart and, through gifted word choice, allowing us to feel in the same way. Modern lyricists are often called poets (too often, in my estimation), but Mark deserves that description as much or more than any of them. Yet still, this stands as mere assistant to the quality of his musicianship. There is none other that can make a guitar speak as Mark can. I cannot speak highly enough of him. |
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