A Poet's Journey

A Poet's Journey

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A Poet's Journey
A Poet's Journey
Her Music Speaks Clear From Her Soul

Her Music Speaks Clear From Her Soul

A Tribute to Nina Simone

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Bob Metivier
Mar 04, 2023
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Her Music Speaks Clear From Her Soul
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Nina Simone on the Victrola - Image by Shawn R Metivier, 2018
Nina Simone on the Victrola — Image by Shawn R Metivier, 2018

She asks a searing question then
A pin could drop within the hall
And everyone who’s sitting in
Would hear its jangled, tingling fall
It is as if the world was all
Just still and sound had stopped at once
And waited on her voice to call
Her out of this fantastic trance

You look real close and listen in

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