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The Park on Sunday - poem by my father, music by me, (a version for mens' voices - AATBB - is also available) Description of our dear old park (in Loughborough, UK) on a hot day with a light swing. The poem is by my father Stanley N Solomons Music by David Warin Solomons Performed by The Composers Choir under Daniel Shaw

Poem: The air is heavy this afternoon, Weighs heavily upon the mind And the heat, semi translucent, Presses against the slate blue sky,

Tactile as a membrane, Bulging like cling film over The pulsing microwave Of our dear old Park.

And Time is slow and viscous.

And scattered haphazard On the path and grass, Objects, people, and colours Have a surreal identity.

The grass is greener, Sounds more strident, People perfect samples, Everything in your face.

And Time is slow and viscous

Little old ladies With short white curly hair Take short light genteel steps Into their Third Age.

Old gaffers with shiny pates, Moustache akimbo, And spine welded stiff, Recalling how they used to march In their lost past.

And Time is slow and viscous

Families spread untidily And ungainly upon the grass, With fat pink ideal babies Squirming and cooing. And fat pink young mothers, Posing and dozing.

Floating and flirting girls, Golf ball muscled boyos Showing off to them, Showing off their talents To the talent.

And Time is slow and viscous In our dear old Park (c) S N Solomons

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