When Eudora Welty Sang a Song:

When Eudora Welty Sang a Song:

A Poem by carl
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giving honor

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Best I remember it goes -

No place like the past

all the rest is just rumor

you can hide there forever

and avoid the future.


Those Memphis memories

have an honest heart appeal

from the friendly WJDX

with detail and dialect

they all seem quite real.


The story is picture perfect

behind that green curtain

the wit is superbly stated

and the truth is for certain

as a photographed effect.


Then falls the silence

quite tragically deafening

with little communion

just lose and grief amazing 

with optimistic illusion.


The past was built by others 

but also was her own 

so to reveal the mystery 

she brought us along

when Eudora Welty sang a song.


© 2025 carl


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A great tribute well deserved. I often wonder what tribute each of us will recieve or if we will be remembered at all. Very nicely done

Posted 2 Months Ago


carl

2 Months Ago

my first exposure to the author - I found her work to be very poetic in images and impressions if no.. read more
short story writer and photgrapher. i think we read something by her in school one time. the things we'll do for rhythm and rhyme!

Posted 2 Months Ago


carl

2 Months Ago

ain't that the truth - "Life is a long song" I heard him say though I can't recall at all where my h.. read more
Pete

2 Months Ago

Jethro Tull has a song called, "Life's A Long Song."
carl

2 Months Ago

yes that's it - thanks
I didn't know she sang at all. But I have heard some of her stories including this one on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeZTYQL4sW0

Posted 2 Months Ago


carl

2 Months Ago

lol - no, to my knowledge she never did, at least not publicly - she is a new experience for me - b.. read more
Fabian G. Franklin

2 Months Ago

I'm a big Kristofferson fan myself. His lyrics are poetry that survive him. His voice was like whisk.. read more
carl

2 Months Ago

yes, I'm a fan of Jacob on his own and with the Wallflowers - also he did a documentary on the Laure.. read more

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Added on January 23, 2025
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I am a retired English grammar and literature teacher, married, with five grown children. I enjoy reading science fiction, fantasy, biographies, and nonfiction history and philosophy. I have a BFA in .. more..

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