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My Tribute to Jerry Garcia
An Elegy for Jerry

Jerry my friend
you've done it again,
even in your silence
the familiar pressure
comes to bear, demanding
I pull words from the air
with only this morning
and part of this afternoon
to compose an ode worthy
of one so particular
about every turn of the phrase,
demanding it hit home
in a thousand ways
before making it his own,
and this I can't do alone.
Now that the singer is gone,
where shall I go for the song?

Without your melody and taste
to lead an attitude of grace
a lyric is an orphan thing,
a hive with neither honey's taste
nor power to truly sting.

What choices have I but to dare
and call your muse who thought to rest
out of the thin blue air,
that out of the field of shared time
a line or two might chance to shine.

As ever when we called
in hope if not in words
the muse descends.

How shall she desert us now?
Scars of battle on her brow
bedraggled feathers on her wings,
and yet she sings, she sings!

May she bear thee to thy rest,
the ancient bower of flowers
beyond the solitude of days,
the tyranny of hours-
the wreath of shining laurel lie
upon your shaggy head,
bestowing power to play the lyre
to legions of the dead.

If some part of that music
is heard in deepest dream
or on some breeze of Summer
a snatch of golden theme,
we'll know you live inside us
with love that never parts
our good old Jack O'Diamonds
become the King of Hearts.

I feel your silent laughter
at sentiments so bold
that dare to step across the line
to tell what must be told,
so I'll just say I love you
which I never said before
and let it go at that friend,
the rest you may ignore.

Robert Hunter 8/11/95

The Grateful Dead

Music for a lifetime.
JERRY GARCIA
1942-1995
Without love in a dream, it’ll never come true ~ Robert Hunter
Doing What he alway's did BEST!!!
Jerry Garia's Art Work
Banyan Tree                                Barn Yard                                  New York
Here's just a few of Jerry's Famous Art work, check back from time to time I may change or add some.

 

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