Take This Tune
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 by Travis Cody in
Take This Tune is a feature hosted by my pal Jamie at Duward Discussion. Jamie puts up a video prompt complete with lyrics to the song, and the task is to find another song or to write something inspired by the title of the song or something in the lyrics.
I really enjoy participating in Jamie's feature because of where the prompts take my thoughts and emotions. I get to take credit for this week's prompt. I suggested a beautiful song from an oddity...an Andrew Loyd Weber musical that was not outrageously successful. The song is Whistle Down the Wind, from the musical of the same name.
I'm including the lyrics, but I encourage you to listen to the song as well.
Whistle Down The Wind
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Whistle down the wind
Let your voices carry
Drown out all the rain
Light a patch of darkness
Treacherous and scary
Howl at the stars
Whisper when you're sleeping
I'll be there to hold you
I'll be there to stop
The chills and all the weeping
Make it clear and strong
So the whole night long
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I will not abandon you my precious friend
So try to stem the tide
Then you'll raise a banner
Send a flare up in the sky
Try to burn a torch
And try to build a bonfire
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I'm there
So whistle down the wind
For I have always been
Right there
Howl at the stars
Whisper when your sleeping
I'll be there to hold you
I'll be there to stop
The chills and all the weeping
Make it clear and strong
So the whole night long
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I will not abandon you my precious friend
So whistle down the wind
Let your voices carry
Drown out all the rain
Light a patch of darkness
Treacherous and scary
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I'm there
So whistle down the wind
For I have always been
Right there.
I continue to be visited by a flood of old memories. I'm grateful for it, because it helps me gain more perspective about where I reside in this moment of my life.
This sonnet was composed using a Shakespearean rhyming scheme.
Tempestuously rolling toward shore.
Cold bites hard, more winter ice than spring rain.
Vortexes of angry clouds promise more.
Within such uncheck'd volatility
Did the course of a fast friendship reside.
Only alive when running wild and free;
Never quiescent, rarely satisfied.
Yet often comes that day when paths diverge,
When the lives of men find distinct purpose,
Youth foregoing witless pursuits to merge
In honor with the few and the proud, and thus,
For duty, one met his untimely end.
So shall I always remember my friend.
This has been an original poem by Travis Cody, copyright 2010.
Interesting that we both went for the storms in life. That is a wonderful sonnet. Thank you for sharing it.