Sunday, July 29, 2007

Singapore PhotoPoetry





A Poetic Vision

A tribute to Yip, SEL for his contribution to lyrics

God made the world in six days flat,
On the seventh, He said, “I’ll rest,”
So He let the thing into orbit swing,
To give it a dry-run test.

A billion years went by, then He
Took a look at the whirling blob;
His spirits fell, as He shrugged,
“Ah well,It was only a six-day job.”

“Back to the Drawing Board”, Yip

Yip was the lyricist for The Wizard of Oz and Finian’s Rainbow. He also wrote the lyrics for Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, April in Paris, and dozens if not hundreds of other songs.

I suspect that Yip and I agreed about practically nothing in politics, religion, or anything else but, if there’s a heaven (which Yip most definitely denied), he’s certainly one of the people I’d like to meet there.


For more poetry and photography of the ServiceWorld Gallery, visit our blog sites at http://singaporekampong.blogspot.com/ and http://leaves-of-life.blogspot.com/ and our web sites at http://www.serviceworld.com.sg/ and http://www.yipcheongfun.com/