PODCAST #21: VALENTINE’S SPECIAL

Originally planned as video collage 9.4, this presentation became Episode #21 of “Martin Bidney, The Be-loving Imaginer” for two compelling reasons. (1) The Valentine’s Day presentation is the most joyous love song I have written. (2) “Love” is pre-eminently the mood of my “Be-loving Imaginer” offerings. Here is a poem that my Valentine’s Day song performance stimulated:

327 Song of Love

I wrote a love song, and a pleasure sweet

Could feel when singing this to a computer!

Be blest, kind Muse of Tech, who are my tutor –

You as my Valentine I also greet.

I started out with improvising. “Wing it!”

The goddess told me, “Loosen up the mind:

A carefree heart will new coherence find.

Abide in me, and I will help you sing it.”

I felt that vocal spirits treasure kept

For decades well protected while they slept…

Then David words had whispered: Shir ḥadash

(“New song”) and then he added yitkadash

(“Let it be sanctified”). And then I knew

My love I’d sing to Universal You.