Margarita Pracatan - d. June 23rd 2020

No sombre ceremony

could fete you: that would be wrong,

wrong as the memory

of melody you learned for too long,

rendered unsingable. We

mourn your approximation of song.

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Ian Holm - d. June 19th 2020

I admired your purity,  

from outside the stadium,

to the middle of another Earth, 

to the coldness of space

- a survivor, always believable

in your unbelievable art.

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Vera Lynn - d. June 18th 2020

A table is reserved

at the Ritz of any age.

A menu of optimism

falls open at a page

adorned with bluebirds.

Angels sit expectantly

as you rise to the stage.

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Keith Tippett - d. June 14th 2020

There are no blueprints

for spontaneity: breathe

in a note, chord, cadence,

breathe out brilliance

through fingertips that,

even now, don't know

what's coming next.

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Ricky Valance - d. June 12th 2020

Tell Ricky, who loved him,

that in the chapel steeped in song,

we are singing his hymn

to doomed adolescence, the wrong

words but the right tune, grim

as the fate we expected all along.

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Rupert Hine - d. June 4th 2020

Takeastrangerpathandlurkfordecadesinthedarkness

Takeaquirkysoundandmakeitintosomethingquantum

Fixxuponafutureanddesignitforthestereo

Thinkmanthinkofhowyoullhearaheavenandremixit

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Steve Priest - d. June 4th 2020

Are you ready, Steve,

to raise some hell, push 

the button marked blitz,

square off with the bass, 

find the action, grab a piece?

All right, fella, let’s go...

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Michael Angelis - d. May 30th 2020

There's a promised land,

thick with accents, jokes,

where there are jobs 

for all the boys, signals 

are all set at clear

and there are rabbits, 

rabbits, everywhere.

Read about Michael Angelis here