Tuesdays with.... (#15)

Happy Tuesday! Today's poet is one that is well known and recognized. He passed away last year and left a wonderful poetic legacy for us all. One of his most famous poems is "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Gil Scott-Heron...

A Very Precious Time

by Gil Scott-Heron

copyright 1974

Was there a touch of spring?

Did she have a pink dress on?

And when she smiled, her shyest smile

Could you almost touch the warmth?

And was it your first love, a very precious time?

Was there the faintest breeze? 


And did she have a ponytail? 


And could she make you feel ten feet tall, 


Walking down the grassy trail? 


Was it your first love, a very precious time, time?

Now they got me trying to define, in later life 


What her love means to me 


And it keeps me struggling to remember, my first touch of spring.

Was there a touch of spring, in the air? 


And did she have a pink dress on? 


And when she smiled, her shyest smile 


Could you almost touch the warmth? 


Was it your first love, 


A very precious, very precious, very precious time, time.