Feelings inspired by your music

[patriciabutler]

I have often thought what music does for us, how is it that it can change lives so.

When I close my eyes and listen to you sing , it is like being transported to another world. This poem was actually written by a young WW2 pilot about his enjoyment of flying - but so many of his feeling mirror my own for music, your music

[align=center]High Flight[/align]
[align=center]Oh. I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of;wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sun-lit silence. Hovering there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air;
Up,up the long, delirious, buring blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark nor even eagle flew;
And while, with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.[/align]
J G MAGEE 1922- 41

God bless you Signore, and give you all the Joy that you give others in your music.

[silva]

Beautiful, joyful, lovely and boundless.

[Lelly]

What a coincidence Patricia - I've just been reading one of Alan Titchmarsh's books (wonderful escapism) and that poem is quoted. I thought then that it was excellent, but didn't link it with Andrea. However, you're right - that same feeling of flying when listening to the man himself - quite incomparable.