On the 70th birthday
of Danielle Schoovaerts
Happy New Year, Lady TNT!
{Verses to The Greetings Book}
Dani Klein*
(Vaya Con Dios)**
And here's the song like the last cry,
Like a hopeless farewell look.
Like an instant dashing into the void.
Like a broking mooring line.
This pain knows no measure, no hurdle,
Like the electricity of a thunderstorm,
And big fellows
Are standing there and pursing their lips
To stay firm and suppress tears.
But — hark! There's already a different chant,
Where the step is light and joy is overflowing,
While the audience, tipsy with delight,
Echoes furiously the song desired.
Well, it's good to be young, although not quite a young girl.
And sing, and sing! And live, proud of herself,
Talented, capable, accurate — wonderful.
Without shunning anything:
The others' beauty, some jaunty dancers.
A ruby in a setting, for it —
This rays' play is an openwork illumination.
It isn't accidental, the pseudonym:
A little one. But such a power!
You're being driven by a simple tune,
As if it be a goodly quantity of TNT:
Neу Neh Nah Nеh
Oh Nah Neh Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Laaa
But the years went by, the years went by.
So what? What did it come to?
Now, are all the merits gone,
And all the past is a gone dream?
Nothing of the kind! The fruit was ripening,
Getting fuller, stronger, sweeter.
Just as «old wines take their turn».
Like a garden — alluring again in its bloom.
*
Merci, Dani, fuer diese Traenen,
There's no envy in them, no self-interest.
And they are not over what is mortal,
They are caused by bronze of late leaves.
You, like a glimpse on a gloomy day,
Made me recover myself.
Opened a wide distance on The Blue
with a sparkling border Magic Saucer.
Even if these tears are like frost,
That's here today and 'll vanish tomorrow, —
Your voice has brought to me the chime
Of carved, pure gold standard, leaves.
_________
* Dani Klein is the stage name of the singer Danielle
Schoovaerts, the songwriter, co-author of songs and their
musical arrangement, permanent producer, leader, inspiration
and soloist of the band Vaya Con Dios. She was born in
Belgium on January 1, 1953.
**Vaya Con Dios - literally: Go With God.
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