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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Star Child Memory / Will Dockery
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 20:28:25 +0000
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On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 1:35:39 +0000, MummyChunk wrote:
> Will-Dockery wrote:
>> Hector Heathcliff wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 5:43:25 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>> Star Child Memory
>>>
>>> Snapshot of a moment
>>> an outdoor poetry reading
>>> in early Spring 1996.
>>> Glimmering stars
>>> and looming moon
>>> through the gloom.
>>>
>>> Passing through
>>> in that cavern
>>> of concrete, glass and brick
>>> off Broadway.
>>> I join the poetry reading
>>> already in progress.
>>>
>>> There's a hush in the air
>>> as we approach.
>>> Star Child and her friends
>>> standing with me
>>> on the sidewalk.
>>>
>>> Glimmering stars above us
>>> Springtime
>>> constellations.
>>> Poets sit in a circle
>>> in the alley
>>> behind Bazaar Earth.
>>>
>>> In those early days
>>> so late in the game.
>>>
>>> But I couldn't remain
>>> back then
>>> I had to keep on moving.
>>> I told them they couldn't get
>>> high enough
>>> to float with me.
>>>
>>> Star Child twinkled and tweaked
>>> skipping by me
>>> in that spangled night.
>>> Stopping at the parking meter
>>> waving goodbye.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Draft post, comments and suggestions welcomed for the upcoming re-write.
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Outstanding addition to the Shadowville Mythos, Doc....
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again for reading and commenting, we're in the process of
>>> adopting this
>>> story to music, at the studio.
>>>
>>>
>> We? And when will this happen, ? You're responding
>> to a post that is four years old now.
>
>
> In the year 2025, stay tuned.
>
>  😏
>
>  Waiting with anticipation!

I can post the instrumental guitar part to YouTube but the lyric
structure
 is still being fine tuned:

https://youtube.com/shorts/LiMdyP7QniY?si=_NpsToLWTXP7WZ3p

> This is a response to the post seen at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659908913#659908913