Redtree Times

Reaching Out– At the Principle Gallery

Let’s get my incantation right:
“I wish I may, I wish I might”
Give earth another satellite.

— Robert Frost, A-Wishing Well, 1959

Hadn’t come across this poem before this morning. Frost’s cranky lobbying for another moon (or many more moons) in the sky made me chuckle which is always a good thing on an early Sunday morning. Plus, it was somewhat in line with the song I wanted to play this morning. I am not going to put up the whole poem here but its ends with this reassurance (?):

I am assured at any rate
Man’s practically inexterminate.
Someday I must go into that.
There’s always been an Ararat
Where someone, someone else begat
To start the world all over at.

The poem was written as a Christmas greeting in 1959. You can see and read the poem in its original form by clicking here.

That brings us to this Sunday’s morning music. It’s an old Lou Reed song covered by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain who have appeared here a few times over the years. I always enjoy their takes on certain songs. This is their version of Satellite of Love.