Monday, 25 July 2022

This side now

For Joni Mitchell 


Pure of note, so smoothly sung
Full of health and strong of lung
Each word like crystal goblets rung 
Heard that song that way

Fifty-plus years have come and gone
And on this rainy July morn
An ageing voice sings that same song 
In a different way

You’ve sung that song from all sides now
When young and fresh to almost four score
But would you write it differently
Given all that you have seen? 

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