Liudmila Kondakova
City Iconographer Extraordinare
By Kimberly A. Rinker
Here is an article we published many years ago. We congratulate Liudmila on her success an an artist. She has become quite well known since those days.
We have searched around and found her art represented well at Martin Lawrence Galleries
Art-One does a good job of presenting a gallery of Liudmila Kondakova
Thanks to Kimberly A. Rinker
….editor D M Jackson
20 years and Go To Vegas Poem by Amy Jackson
I was 19 years old…
I loved him…. no doubt.
But… I was 19 and stupid.
He loved me in spite of myself.
We lived.
Had kids…
Had bills…
Had memories…
And now? It has been 20 years.
20 years? Really?
Where did the time go?
To kids…
To bills…
To our memories.
Time to make some new ones.
Not kids…. memories!
Off to Vegas.
Vegas?
Yes…. Vegas!
A toast to the next 20.
Posting poems in the night for
you who read me,
somewhere in this world.
Oh I have done it for so long now.
I may have published
the first poem on the net.
It went
Hello World.
“Hello Ball”,
said Art Carney.
I roll the ball toward
some overwhelming question
without an answer
and tell you that
beauty is truth.
Then a few judge
whether I
said it
well enough.
when all I wanted, really,
all you wanted
was to hear the words
rain drops fall off the leaf.
It Looks like another poem
is waiting among the roses
or the thorns
or maybe the sidewalks,
hoping for sidewalks
instead of muddy paths,
muddy paths and
muddy lives.
Hoping for better
is better than
nothing.
Hoping for better
child
is always
better than wasting away
thinking life is
so unfair,
which it is,
which it is.
Humble hands must work
Humble hearts must try.
Humility is beauty, and
Beauty is truth.
| Friend and folk singer Jodey Bateman in New Mexico translates Pablo Neruda and sings many folk songs in three languages. His knowledge of folk music is such that Jodey’s work is worth saving and presenting.Here he sings his folk rendition of Little Milton’s classic song. http://www.motherbird.com/folkmusic/We’re_Gonna_Make_it.mp3The Song is originally a soul song We’re gonna Make it By Little Milton Here is Little Milton’s Biography |
Here are Little Milton’s lyrics:
We may not have a cent to pay the rent
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
We may have to eat beans every day
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
And if a job is hard to find
And we have to stand in the welfare line
I’ve got your love and you know you got mine
So we’re gonna make it, I know we will
We may not have a home to call our own
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
We may have to fight hardships alone
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
‘Cause togetherness brings peace of mind
We can’t stay down all the time
I’ve got your love and you know you got mine
So we’re gonna make it, I know we will
Our car may be old, our two rooms cold
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
We may not can spare a single crumb
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
And if I have to carry ’round a sign
Sayin’ “Help the deaf, the dumb, and the blind”
I got your love and you know you got mine
So we’re gonna make it, I know we will
Give notice in heaven, Leadbelly, this is a classic too.
Little Milton sing his song: