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A Love Supreme
“What’s he even mean by that,” my son asked the other day.
Whose love? What love? And for whom?
I didn’t have an answer, so started thinking, looking around.
I thought maybe God, but a non-believer,
preferred something mortal, something I had actually felt and seen,
which led me to my mom and dad.
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The photo is of the poet’s mother and father on their wedding day, May 16, 1953, in a small town in the Italian Alps
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Dan Franch, who grew up in the Chicagoland area, now lives in Estonia. Living a life full of random experiences and adventures and people, he currently owns his own English & coaching company.
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Listen to the 1964 recording of John Coltrane playing “A Love Supreme, Part One – Acknowledgement,” with McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (bass), and Elvin Jones (drums)
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A gentle poem filled with love and family. Well-done.
I do suspect, though, that at some level Coltrane’s composition is addressing love on a greater scale than human love. Still, your take on the composition also works nicely.
Thank you, Michael. According to an NPR article from 2012, Coltrane “presented [the song] as a spiritual declaration that his musical devotion was now intertwined with his faith in God.”
An interesting aside, a few years ago my mom and dad asked me why I wasn’t religious and didn’t believe in God. My reply was that I had them and their examples to follow.
Again, thanks for reading –