I like the symmetry of this window (pictured left) the modern lines superimposed with the ancient reflected like a ghost from the past in the modern glass. Handbags, glad rags and the Piero della Francesca frescoes collude in a world of renaissance art and popular culture, like a scene from Derek Jarman's Caravaggio, and I have been thinking a great deal about this in terms of what I want to write for myself - as an exercise in writing and composing, 'Beauty awakens the soul to act,' wrote Dante Alighieri. I have recently been alerted to a Poem-a-Day website and I will take the next six months of this blog to clip the link to their daily offering for those who like to be introduced to something new, just click here and it should take you straight to it: Poem-a-Day But for now, R.I.P Gerry Goffin, a fantastic wordsmith, this is a track from my childhood which I never forgot - who could forget? One of the things I am writing now is a song about the soundtrack of my early life when I wondered where I would be now - and it was not here, that is for sure (I never thought I would get to here). Dante also wrote, 'Follow your own star...' and GF surely did, he wrote this with Carole King and Jerry Wexler and gave it to the amazing Aretha Franklin who made it her own, 'when my soul was in the lost and found, you came along to claim it...' oh yay!
and the Carole King version (ooh - I used to love that look and hairstyle:
