Name: Venus De Milo, 1820
Duration: P00H03M42S
Description: This is a poem put to music. My friend Lisal Kayati Roberts wrote this lovely poem. I was reading her book of poetry one night and came across "Venus" and began to play a few chords to go along with it and this was the result.

Venus De Milo, 1820

from Sweet Anne's Road by Jim Sharkey

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This is a poem put to music. My friend Lisal Kayati Roberts wrote this lovely poem. I was reading her book of poetry one night and came across "Venus" and began to play a few chords to go along with it and this was the result.

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VENUS DE MILO, 1820
(Written by Lisal Kayati Roberts, music by Jim Sharkey)
She knew her own beauty
long before it was discovered by ordinary men
Their fingernails dirtied with years
of tending to their own animals
and the earth they slouched against
They were heard telling small excited stories
About the only God they understood

She was found broken
and still with dignity
They brushed the fine, dark soil
from an unworried brow
And lifted her away from her hiding
She looks at us gently now
even and knowing
She has kept company with Gods
and sometimes, men.

Heaven is a subtle place
and Venus she has always appeared brightly
A small sun in our dark familiar nights.
It isn't meanness
in her self-absorbed posture
It's surely a kind of sadness
any of us might remember
knowing your arms will never
embrace the light again

She knew her own beauty
long before it was discovered by ordinary men
Their fingernails dirtied with years
of tending to their own animals
and the earth they slouched against
They were heard telling small excited stories
About the only God they understood

Heaven is a subtle place
Heaven is a subtle place

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from Sweet Anne's Road, released October 11, 2016

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Jim Sharkey Portland, Maine

Songwriter Jim Sharkey is an Irish and Americana folk musician. Jim grew up in County Roscommon, Ireland. He plays around the northeastern US. Jim's original songs blend Irish traditional ballad influences with contemporary issues.

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