This Poem was Submitted By: Marcia McCaslin On Date: 2002-04-04 17:56:25 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Blues Singer

Blues...like no other colors, like no other feelings. She opens her dark-red mouth, and sings you into submission.  Her voice, far from golden, but rich and throaty, sometimes rough and raspy, lays out the human condition and forces you to look. The Blues...like no other sound, like no other cry, excerpts of brokenness, vignettes of struggle. Her wings have been fractured and yet she flies; her voice has been stifled and yet she sings. She has no choice. It is her heritage. The Blues...melodies played out on the black keys, as though the white keys are too naive to tell it like it is: midnight re-discovering itself; the percussion of water playing the rocks; the trees, like brushes, playing the wind. The Blues...the only honest thing left to sing  about; the tragedies of life bursting forth into strength; the vibrato only flirting with the melody--to hit it note-to-note would be all too honest and would break you into pieces. With no formal education, she tells your fortune and reads your mind. She strips you naked and shows you your own heart. She wrenches tears from your dry soul, and wrings you out like a limp cloth. She is...The Blues Singer

Copyright © April 2002 Marcia McCaslin

Additional Notes:
I am neither the Blues Singer nor am I the Blues Songwriter-- just the Blues Poet, in this case.


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