Sunday Mini Challenge ~ Hallelujah ~ for Read Toads

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© Sigrid Saradunn 2013

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I am not familiar with Leonard Cohen that I know of.  All my life I have had trouble with my hearing.  Discerning words to songs has been nearly impossible. I would … before the computer…search out copies of the lyrics to songs that I found the music haunting me or I found myself… in discord ☺… humming the music endlessly.  

Thanks to a ten dollar amplifier for my computer, (an “as seen on tv amplifier ) I was able to play, and hear the u-tube versions

of Leonard Cohen (awesome…I want to find out more about his writing and music), kd lang … a favorite of mine, and Jeff Buckley,RIP who would have had the 3rd place of those I enjoyed the most.

The following is what I wrote while listening to the song in it’s various renditions.

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Halleujah ! Hallejuhah !

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In joy, peace or grief,

invigorating or haunting

soulful and rejoicing

as  Hallelujah !, Hallelujah !  

is sung

from

deep

within.

Eyes shining,

souls

on

fire.

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Tonight my spirit

stirred

in

another

place.

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

(deep sighs,

no

exclamation points)

no

raising of arms

no

praising the Lord

haunting

sad

deep sighs

come

from

within

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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Hallelujah

a new meaning

feels my soul.

of

grief,

sadness,

ripped,

torn,

heart

and

soul.

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah .

sadness

and grief.

our greatest

losses..

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

from

the

depths

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no

raising of arms

no

praising the Lord

haunting

sad

deep sighs

come

from

within

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You are among toads

“Think as I think,” said a man,

“or you are abominably wicked;

you are a toad.”

And after I thought of it,

I said, “I will, then, be a toad.”

~ Stephen Crane

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