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Gratitude (for Robert Bly)

from Secrets Are The Best Stories by Kurt Elling ft. Danilo Pérez

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Just as sunlight casts a shadow / the first shade of another day
Interrupted in his sleep / still in half a dream

Nettled into awaking / wishing light away
Drinking his cup of coffee / puzzling what he wants to say

The evening before he’d tried to tell it
He’d showed off all his ecstatic truths
… and wine had encouraged his bray

He’d gone to bed / long before the point was proved
And risen / deep in the night / to walk

To wander under stars / And time and again
He’d wished then / that his children had come walking with hm

To wonder at stars / until they grew dim
Sharing the thoughts that spin him / like butterflies trapped within him

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And so he thinks himself unlucky / this someone who has eyes to see
Who finds stars when wanting stars / who can sing the moon

Someone whose feet get sandy / in the hidden dunes
Someone who knows the ocean / who knows what he has to do

He still thinks his mind is full of tangles
Whose mind to him just a mangle is
… and who thinks his poems a mess

Even though he tells the truth / long before the point is proved
And rises / deep in the night / to write

To wander until light / and fly words like kites
Whose children / share their father’s inner intuition

To sing to the moon / I think maybe soon
Somebody ought to tell him / Maybe we ought to tell him


Something he ought to know

Something his poems show

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from Secrets Are The Best Stories, released April 3, 2020

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Renowned for his singular combination of robust swing and poetic insight, GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling has secured his place among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. Declared “the standout male vocalist of our time” by The New York Times, Elling has garnered unprecedented accolades, including a fourteen-year run atop the DownBeat Critics Poll, as well as a dozen GRAMMY nominations ... more

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