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THE LATE, GREAT ... Jeff, John and Ron - All gone. Mayo, Addey and Davison. Charles Harvey and Charles Jayne; Al H. Morrison. The quiet teachers, The mercurial out-reachers, The wired-world explorers, Sacrificing self for us. Walker, Elliot, Woodruff Achieved enough And they are gone To the real With Jim, Howard, Neil - Lewis, Sasportas and Michelson. The men of presence, The laid-back and the intense, The spiritual mothers, The many unforgotten others. Rudhyar, Ruperti, Ebertin Have now been Where all is known And Moby Dick is, Johndro, Maurice Wemyss To whom we are dreams. Ingrid Lind. Ada and Ivy. Margaret Hone. Jacob, and Olivia, and Michel - Schwartz and Barclay and Gauquelin - Shine on where all is well With our wise-women and our starmen. Now we are the teachers, We are the out-reachers; They before, beside us, behind us Invisibly remind us. ............................................................................... THE PRICE OF FAME You used to be my friend; Such is the price of fame, That partnership would end Once you had made your name. I found you at my door; I taught you all I knew. The glamour that you wore An amusing part of you. The showman and the mage Reached for the wheels of time, Spun them on every page, Made them your pantomime. Now here’s the photograph, That weekend in July When I made people laugh ... You never said Goodbye. And here’s the quarter-page, The store, the famous face; And here’s the West End stage; And Strictly in eighth place. Here’s the remark you made, Burned on a DVD, The moment you betrayed Your soul, to be rid of me: The stars that lit your way, All that I value dearly You still exploit for pay Yet were a hobby, merely. Once, you always swore Never to fail a friend, And now one heart is sore Which you refuse to mend. If I am to forgive, Leap from the turning wheel, Abort its narrative ... If we are both to heal, Deep in the heart of light My bitterness, my shame Must die, and I rewrite The price we pay for fame. .......................................... |