i m going to pretend your skin won t be gone, the wind the forces of nature change of transforming angel to a complete stranger hindsight your beauty helps my eyesight this sight is about your highlights it is written in stone is on no one can read write be my study delight you are the perfect memory i write about your memory so it never goes away my love is immortal you looks are forever i wrote it in my journal come and be my sunny day you can chase my clouds away i will be with you every day come on baby let s fly away come and be my sunny day sonnet 18. instead of mailing everyone my vacation photos,
we are glad to have you here, devon glover. the sonnet man. thank you for joining us. now i m going to invite you to get up from the table and head over to our summer concert series stage aka right over there. for those of you at home, we are going to leave you today with this version of william shakespeare s sonnet 18 i am krystal ball. melissa will be back tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. eastern. weekends with alex witt will be up next. now devon glover, the sonnet man. sonnet 18 shall i compare thee art more lovely open must is gold complexion dimmed every fare
students to compare to dark connect shakespeare to a great genre like hip hop it inspires them to open up shakespeare and learn more themselves. you start from a place they have a connection. they use that as a bridge. i think that s brilliant. yes. on the flip side you also perfect formed, as i mentioned, stratford upon avon shakespeare s birth place. how did the true shakespeareans view the work you were doingsome. it was quite a great experience. you know. the they like the beauty of the language and the fact that i was using his words and there was no switching of his words. i rye to call myself hip hop, you know, cliff notes. i actually it is the sonnet i have used, consider studying on. and they like the meaning and definition that i brought to this audience. it was actually great. actually i had been requested to come back next year. that s awesome. i m sure they love the weigh you bring it to life. you have a new cd out.
i m excited to have a copy of it. what can people expect to hear? you know, you can you can dance, if it has lot of different themes to it. you know. shakespeare. a lot of themes and different tunes. we have the blend the moats where you learn along and read along with shakespeare. just you know, getting a glimpse of shakespeare and getting a glimpse of may life because the sonnet i choose, i like to connect to my life and story. i will listen to it on the way to the beach today. i understand you performed a sonogram and engagement party yesterday. tell us about that. well, just went to a friend s house and, you know, that had had a couple of requests to possibly do a couple of songs. it was just you know, just good times and good times with friends and i like to do open shows as well as, you know, theater. it works great for me. awesome.
and say thank you, because whatever it is, you have the faith to know that god has put a rainbow in the clouds. no matter the time of day or night or the situation, she was always there for me to be the rainbow. the loss i feel i cannot describe. it s like something i have never felt before. and in a rare glimpse maya angelou s son guy showed the apple didn t fall far from the tree as he recited a mother s day sonnet that he d written long ago. others have been led by its incandescence to be more than mere flesh and bone, to love and