Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Syd Barrett's Death



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Well, now it's official. Syd has passed away. I'm afraid his life seemed something like a death-in-life for the last 25 years. I had hoped he'd live to a fine old age, but it wasn't to be. I'm afraid that most of his adult life was a terrible falling off from the brilliance of his early years. As the darkness closed in (apparently from complications connected with diabetes), one couldn't imagine Syd struggling too hard against the comforting black night.




I repost my recent Syd poem as a tribute to a gentle soul with a special gift.





Ave Syd




Was incipient madness always there?


Or was the startling suddenness of fame


Too much for one of temperament so rare


And fine?I guess it’s difficult to blame


Any of the band too much. The crazy eyes


Were always fixed upon them in disguise.




Those early videos of black and white


Presaged an odd rejection of the real;


As if some stricken soulhad taken fright


And hidden in a lunatic’s surreal


World…Ave Syd! I think you were relieved


When finally you had to leave the field.

1 Comments:

Blogger pluto85 said...

mi piace,xchè la composizione in colorato è bellisima, e xchè con questa è un bel modo,di ricordarlo
27enne mio xxx78 sei troppo speciale

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