Monday, January 17, 2011

Already...

Maple leaf in the snow, Dykeman Walking Trail

Music: "Already Song" - performed by Dadáwa (Zhu Zheqin), composed by He Xuntian - from Dadáwa's 2008 CD Seven Days.

Already Song
Lyrics, music and composition by He Xuntian

Awareness of Living:
In this present life, when everyone else has gone, the stars and the tree leaves will not have gone before you.

Sun already sunk behind the hills
Companions already gone home

Evening breeze already blown away
No one left to play

Stars up there, come out
And I will play with you

Sun already sunk behind the hills
Companions already gone home

Evening breeze already blown away
No one left to play

Leaves up there, flutter over here
And I will play with you

Photo © 2011 by A. Roy Hilbinger; "Already Song" words & music © 2006 by Wind Music International Corporation

7 comments:

  1. Oh, I love the snow when it is all crunchy like that.

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  2. I have almost the perfect replica of that leaf on my desk. I picked it up a couple of years ago and for no good reason I laminated it. And so it sits on my desk, unchanging, captured in its fall but never reaching the earth.

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  3. The music fits the solitariness of the leaf in the snow just perfectly.

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  4. ...I already had California Dreamin' in my head this morning.

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  5. Your photos are so consistently outstanding, but this one of the maple leaf is definitely one of my favorites ever. Just exquisite!

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  6. ...beautiful. I feel the stillness of winter in this photo...

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