{"id":361779,"date":"2022-02-11T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=361779"},"modified":"2022-02-11T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:04:06","slug":"valentine-moods-and-vicissitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/valentine-moods-and-vicissitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Moods and Vicissitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cMusick and Poetry have been acknowledg\u2019d Sisters,\u00a0<br \/>\nwhich walking hand in hand support each other\u2026\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014John Dryden (1631-1700),<\/strong> English poet who wrote words, lyrics, and poems for many years as a collaborator with Henry Purcell (1659-1695), an English music composer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Music is the Food of Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If music is the food of love then poems are loves thought<br \/>\nif music soothes the savage beast poems are not least<br \/>\nwords of love can woo and weave when love is sought<br \/>\nif music is the bread of love poems make it rise like yeast<\/p>\n<p>Sing out with poems when you are filled jump for joy<br \/>\nlistening to them let your whole body and soul move<br \/>\nmusic has melody, harmony, and tunes for hoi polloi<br \/>\nballads, blues and boogie will get you in the groove<\/p>\n<p>Hear Masses by T. Tallis, H. Schutz, Hildegarde von Bingen<br \/>\nJ.S. Bach, Mozart, Handel, and sing the Hallelujah chorus<br \/>\nMahalia Jackson, Spirituals, Gospel songs keep us singing<br \/>\nClassic Opera, rock and roll, blues songs will seldom bore us<\/p>\n<p>So keep music alive with friends, in school, and in your homes<br \/>\nremember many songs begin with lyrics, rhymes and poems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fraught With Love Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWrought all my loss; O frowning Fortune! cursed, fickle dame;<br \/>\nFor now I see Inconstancy.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My love fraught, sought, caught, and tangled for naught<br \/>\nMy love thought not that it was her love that I sought<br \/>\nMy eyes saw less and less of what became love\u2019s mess<br \/>\nThough my arms reached out their hugs were in doubt<br \/>\nSometimes things were amiss, sometimes a rejected kiss<br \/>\nLove seemed to be denying all my fretting and fervent trying<br \/>\nOf my fidelity and faith in that love she seems to be defying<br \/>\nMy heart is not buying all the moaning heart sobs, and crying<br \/>\nWhich is destroying our bliss, the very reason for all this<br \/>\nIt seems as if all my love poems to her have been forgot<br \/>\nNow I\u2019m confused and don\u2019t know if she loves me or not\u00a0<br \/>\nMy old romantic heart is baffled, broken and bleeding<br \/>\nNo one knows the troubles I\u2019ve seen and help I\u2019m needing<br \/>\nFraught with all these love thoughts I continue pleading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOEY \u2018PEPE BATBON\u2019 CONNOLLY (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. 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