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This is a great new icon :D

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From:	aesiron
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 12:17 am (UTC)

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You should upload a recording of you singing it if you have the capability.

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:21 am (UTC)

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The only way I can do that is to sing while I record a little mini-movie with my camera. When I settle on a tune, I might do that. I had a tune (a pretty lame one, but it was All My Own), but then I forgot it. Next tune I come up with, I'll quick record, so I don't forget.

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From:	sin_agua
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 12:58 am (UTC)

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A thrice lovely poem, my dear friend! I love the poem, the images, and the font! Are the leaves in the photo poplar? They look like cottonwoods, from our old home in Tucson, but I'm sure that can't be, not in Massachusetts.

One day, I will be of a mind to write poetry again. When I do, you will be the very first person I share it with. :)

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:16 am (UTC)

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The leaves are bigtooth aspens :-)

I love your haiku, so I'm sure I'd love your poetry.

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From:	sovay
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 01:28 am (UTC)

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I see it now; her words are true
Nor gold nor apples have I none
Why then it's yellow leaves I'll treasure
And all Earth's other riches shun.

Prrrr.

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:15 am (UTC)

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♥

I made up a tune for it and then forgot it. (It was a pretty lame tune; I'll make up a better one.)

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From:	skogkatt
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:16 am (UTC)

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That was awesome!

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:19 am (UTC)

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Really? Yaaaay!

I wanted to write a really good singable ballad about all these ~~gold coins~~ yellow leaves lying around on the ground.

Seriously, I was picking them up and thinking, I'm rich, I'm so rich. I'm so rich in these leaves!

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From:	skogkatt
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:26 am (UTC)

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Have you got a tune in mind?

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:28 am (UTC)

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I've been making simple variations on the sort of minor-key folky tunes I like.

(I don't have a fixed tune in mind yet)

Just now I'm working on one.

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From:	skogkatt
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:39 am (UTC)

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Neat!

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From:	pdlloyd
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 04:39 am (UTC)

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That is such fun. I hope that once you've mastered the singing of this, that you'll share the song with us. :-)

P.S. I got my husband to read it, as he's the poet and musician in the family, and he also likes it.

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From:	pdlloyd
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 04:42 am (UTC)

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Ah. I should have realized that this is the proper icon for that post. Although the icon from my prior comment is one I think of as Blodeudd (from the Welsh Mabinogion--who was made from flowers).

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 12:18 pm (UTC)

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This way I get to enjoy both icons :-) Thank you!

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 12:17 pm (UTC)

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Oh, I'm glad your husband likes it too. When you say musician, does he play an instrument, sing, or both? What music does he like?

I will try to work up the nerve to share it if I do sing it. The thing is, my singing is really--well, uninformed ... it's awkward to put people in the position of having to comment on something that's very unremarkable at best. But maybe :-)

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From:	pdlloyd
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 05:17 pm (UTC)

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Karl can sing (he was in a Gilbert and Sullivan show when he was younger, but discovered he didn't like being on stage) and his favorite instrument is the penny whistle, but he also plays guitar and some piano and banjo. Plus, we have several less familiar instruments around the house, such as a psaltry, that we play around with on an irregular basis. I don't think either of us could actually claim to be good with those, but they're still fun.

He likes a lot of different kinds of music, as do I, but Irish music, blues, and rock seem to be his primary favorites. Our Wolgemut CD (German medieval) is really his.

Please don't feel pressured to post anything you don't feel comfortable sharing. I'd love the opportunity to hear your song, but not at the cost of making you uncomfortable.

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From:	origa
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 07:02 am (UTC)

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Such a lovely ballad, and I like the way it's sealed with the leaves at the end ... :)

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 12:19 pm (UTC)

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I'm glad you liked the ballad and the leaves. I think the leaves are so beautiful, but they really are a treasure you can't store... you fill your coffers with these beautiful leaves, then go back to look and the color's faded and they're all curled and dry! Very Japanese....

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From:	jtglover
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 11:34 am (UTC)

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That was absolutely fantastic! It's a lovely autumn poem, of course, but it gave me the prickles all the way through. Aside from being so lovely in its own right, I can clearly imagine you as the speaker, given the many pictures in your journal over the last few weeks. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful poem with us.

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 12:23 pm (UTC)

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I can't tell you how happy your comment makes me. Your reaction is *exactly* what I hoped for, but a person doesn't dare hope too much. Thank you very, very much.

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From:	tritoneclarinet
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 01:30 pm (UTC)

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:D I like it! I'm interested to see what your tune is like. I could transpose it onto manuscript paper for you, if you like. I also thought up how I might interpret it, but these sorts of things are like translations of masterworks: what I may get out of it musically might be completely different from what you had in mind. I hope you don't mind. :)

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 01:52 pm (UTC)

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I think it's fine for a ballad to have more than one tune (lots of them have lots, right?), and anything I come up with is sure to be amateurish, so feel free to go ahead. When I feel confident about my tune (I mean, when I can sing it with something approaching confidence), I'll send you a link or something so you can hear it. If you create a tune, I'd love to hear it too.

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 01:53 pm (UTC)

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(My tune is a riff off one of the traditional tunes for the ballad "Geordie," but it's not exactly the same. I'll send you a midi file of the tune from Georgie that I'm playing off...)

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From:	tritoneclarinet
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:37 pm (UTC)

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sent!

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:40 pm (UTC)

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It's **gorgeous**

I love your voice and I **love** your tune.

I'm trying to send you my musical notes (my own little mutterings), but gmail doesn't like the large file, or my internet ISP doesn't, or something, so it's not going through.

But yours was just lovely.

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From:	tritoneclarinet
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:48 pm (UTC)

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:D Thank ye kindly ma'am.

Gmail sometimes takes a while to download the actual file onto the email for me (took about ten minutes for that file). If you wait a bit, sometimes it goes through. You could also consider putting it on youtube or something, and then linking from there.

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:51 pm (UTC)

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oh no, these are horrible notes, not real singing... it'll come through eventually, I hope.

Meanwhile, I'll send you another e-mail with just the text of what I was going to say....

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From:	suzan_s
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 02:10 pm (UTC)

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It's chilly and windy here.....perfect for that ballad.....we may actually be getting golds and reds soon.

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 03:01 pm (UTC)

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You have the feel of it--chilly! Yesterday felt like November....

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From:	cheapriboflavin
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 05:20 pm (UTC)

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I really like this. :)

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 23rd, 2008 06:56 pm (UTC)

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Thanks :-)

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From:	mab_led
Date:	October 24th, 2008 10:57 am (UTC)

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lovely!

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	October 24th, 2008 11:00 am (UTC)

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Thank you! Your opinion means a lot to me :-)

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From:	salyey_marya
Date:	November 10th, 2008 12:05 am (UTC)

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i printed your lovely poem. it hangs by my desk :)
thank you

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From:	asakiyume
Date:	November 10th, 2008 03:38 am (UTC)

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Thank **you**. It makes me so happy to have someone like this ballad!

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