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David Becker, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

“‘Benedetto’ means the ‘blessed one’ and I feel that I have truly been blessed.”

-Tony Bennett

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Tony Bennett, In Memoriam

Lightning strikes
as your voice makes magic
on a summer night
i think of a tall girl who works
at the cofeehouse, her legs
are as long as a note you
could hold, and just as memorable
you sing ” somewhere over the rainbow ”
and she becomes a rainbow
strutting like a cat in the night
smooth as a melody, you lay down

it’s no secret women and music
go together like bees and honey
even if she played me, she would
be worth the risk; i picture her
long legs, as she lay, as a dream
on a summer night; your voice
paints her into daylight, a dream
called “her”…

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Erren Kelly is a three-time Pushcart nominated poet from Boston whose work has appeared in 300 publications (print and online), including Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish, Poetry Magazine, Ceremony, Cacti Fur, Bitterzoet, Cactus Heart, Similar Peaks, Gloom Cupboard, and Poetry Salzburg.

Click here to read “Under Quarantine” — COVID-era poetry of Erren Kelly, published by Jerry Jazz Musician

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Listen to the 1995 recording of Tony Bennett performing “Over the Rainbow” [Columbia/Legacy]

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