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My response to the beautiful pastel picture of Bom-Bane’s that Tom Walker gave to the café not long after it had opened. It was part of Tom’s ‘Snooker in the Frame’ exhibition in Sheffield of 147 (highest break) pictures, each with a nod to a different artist.

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I’ve travelled to the rhythm of a great conductor’s needle
To the ordinance precision of some strict surveyor’s staves
The ringing-singing symphonies of steep staccato stairways
And winding water melodies through orchestrated caves
I’ve held the panoramas of the planet’s ancient preludes
That scale above the islands then fall deep beneath the blue -
But never an adventure in the music of the stones
Could ever match the journey that my Bom-Bosch leads me through.

I’ve opened doors to silver scores and welcomed velvet voices
Listened to the brightest brew a singer’s heart can stir
Recognised a million sighs that breathe among the breakers
And chased a million others where the flooded cities were
I’ve taken inspiration from the drama of my dreamings
Followed calmer choruses where level waters wash
And found a never-ending mound of joyful jewelled verses -
But nothing like the song that lives inside my great Bom-Bosch

Basketfuls of poetry have satisfied my thirst
And nourished all the playful fruity hunger deep within
Unlocked the many luscious lands of lyrical supply
And lit in droves the stoked-up stoves, while stacked-up stanzas spin
Disarming rhymes with cryptic mimes have furnished me with feasts
As joyful lines in saddened brine charm taste buds in my brain
And satiate my longing for the world to thrill my thoughts -
But nothing so delicious as the sweet Bom-Bosch refrain

I’ve penetrated guarding glass and slipped through wooden frames
To search between titanic tones and quiet hidden hues
I’ve lived among the galleries where pure dimensions meet
Tracing timeless secrets under freely coloured clues
I’ve gasped in wonder every time a canvas calls my name
And stared in disbelief when living marble shapes the past-
But not before I gazed in awe at Tom-Bom-Bosch’s hand
Did I see clearly what I was - and life knew me at last.

credits

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook, released May 26, 2022
NP Appalachian dulcimer, backwards coathanger and forwards humming
BV Candy Hilton and Rosi Lalor, who both worked and sang Bom-Bane's the Musical that this song is taken from. www.facebook.com/RosiLalor/
Pic Tom Walker

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Jane Bom-Bane Rogers, Arkansas

JB-B performs original songs & poems to the accompaniment of harmonium. She's played around & outside the country & with Linda Thompson, David Thomas, John Bradbury, Rich Hall & David Cunningham, appeared solo on Ch 4, BBC 2, STV, Russian State TV, R 1,2,3,4 & 5Live, R Scotland & written many musicals performed with Eliza Skelton, Daisy Jordan, Emma Kilbey, Kate Daisy Grant etc at Bom-Bane's cafe. ... more

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