“Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing. Let’s break out the booze and have a ball If that’s all there is.”
Peggy Lee hit song. Song was written by Mike Stoller.
Inspired by THOMAS MANN’S short story, “Disillusionment”
Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now is sheer poetry. Now that she is older she sings it with such richness of emotion. Each word. https://youtu.be/tKQSlH-LLTQ
I have several favorites ,so I’ll list them at intervals.
1 Robert Burns
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Langston Hughes
4.Robert Frost
5. Mary Oliver
6. Rumi
7.John Keats
Either T.S. Eliot or Wallace Stevens
Ernest hemingway
Wallace Stevens? Frank O’Hara? Elizabeth Bishop? Anne Sexton?
I love the metaphysical poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell, and more recent poets – Wilfred Owen, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin.
Emily Dickinson
Nezar Qabbani, Pablo Neruda, and Carl Sandburg
John Donne, Robert Frost, John Milton, Sylvia Plath… and many more… Lol
Dr. Seuss.
I’m a kid at heart. Shel Silverstein.
Poet & songwriter too! Who can forget “Sylvia’s Mother” and “A Boy Named Sue”, just to name a few
And of course..”.Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree”..
Sung by Tony Orlando and Dawn
Written by Irwin Levine, and
L. Russell Brown
1973
Robert Service!
Roethke
John Keats
IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
“Is that all there is?
Is that all there is?
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing.
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is.”
Peggy Lee hit song.
Song was written by Mike Stoller.
Inspired by THOMAS MANN’S short story, “Disillusionment”
A prelude to suicide (?) once you suddenly realize ” that’s all there is”.
Another relevant song:
“Cry Me A River”
Tossup: Carl Sandburg or William Carlos Williams
Well, if we are talking about poet – musicians I would add Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell.
I love Joni Mitchell! ?
Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now is sheer poetry. Now that she is older she sings it with such richness of emotion. Each word.
https://youtu.be/tKQSlH-LLTQ
Thank you for sharing ?
Neruda, Garcia Lorca, Frost, Wordsworth, Donne … and so many others.
poet? lol
Robert Browning
Charles Bukowski, Shel Silverstein,
R. Frost
Wordsworth n all other Nasture Poets
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Walt Whitman
Hillaire Belloc