A personal tribute to the Welsh Diva Empress Her Majesty Shirley Bassey!



By Stanley Collymore

Actually I shouldn’t be as dismayed as I am nor come to

that ought any other sensible, intelligent and clearly

rational person either, as things presently stand,

but all the same we’re nevertheless evidently

concerned by the rather ludicrous, risible

and patently vainglorious procession of

what we’re told, and then ad nauseum persistently

reminded of as though we’re retarded children,

are outstandingly and essentially in societal

terms state of the art celebrity figures by a

closely knit, decidedly subjective coterie,

and collectively, a self-appointed and

in every respect an unrepresentative

consortium of utterly self-serving

and absolutely unreliable carpet

bagging shakers and movers.

Persons: generally businessmen or women who obviously

have their financial and other personal vested interests

to carefully consider and safeguard, but who even so

don’t mind at all proceeding with their monetary

endeavours without the least regard that what

they’re habitually, fraudulently, avariciously

and self-centredly flogging is nothing more than the

crass utilization of minimal talent, if any to begin

with in the preliminary situation, encapsulated

in media streams of concerted and distinctly

propagandistic fiction that is then adroitly

packaged as an exclusive brand for the

systematically hedonistic gratification

of a primarily uncultured following.

Very much a current trend unfortunately but reflectively it

wasn’t always so, as I well know! For there was a time

when genuine talent like yours our Empress Shirley

could be readily discerned, warmly embraced in a

mutually exciting and pleasurable environment

of realistic and justifiable expectations while

being proficiently, encouragingly and fittingly honed

in the cauldron of artistic brilliance; and accounts

for why, plus the outstandingly proud Welsh

tradition of melodious singing that you’ve

been nurtured in, you’re unquestionably

the matchless Welsh, Diva Empress,

we all of us everlastingly respect

and genuinely love, your Most

Gracious and regal Majesty;

the unparalleled and the

expressively peerless

Ms Shirley Bassey!

© Stanley V. Collymore

28 May 2016.

Author’s Remarks:

Politically accredited by your country the United Kingdom you’re additionally a societally acknowledged and cheerfully accepted Dame; a living legend occasioned through genuine and astutely recognized merit; an incomparable Diva of astounding worth and artistic brilliance; a comprehensively enthralling figure richly and prodigiously endued with an exuberant and thoroughly captivating dynamism.

The sterling and consummate manifestation of definitive meritocracy and a truly spellbinding, infinitely memorable and an ineradicably sensuously, both physically and psychologically, alluring woman that’s wholly encapsulated in you, Dame Shirley Bassey: the unparalleled Diva Empress proudly born in Wales but rightfully and gratefully belonging none the less to the entire world.

And thankfully on my part and as a devoted, life-long and enduring fan of yours Dame Shirley I’m eternally grateful that your unwavering perseverance in the grievous face of myopic, racially motivated and distinctly bigoted, apathetic or concerted indifference on the part of mean-spirited, so-called teachers and other equally aberrant lowlifes who did all they could to stymie your natural ability with the expectant wish of impeding your studious progress and valid aspirations – where are these disgusting nonentities now I wonder, or who even remembers them? – appreciatively didn’t succeed in their loathsome scuppering enterprise!

So well done to an impeccably laudable Dame of the United Kingdom and matchless Diva Empress of Wales fittingly conjoined with the musical empire you’ve trustworthily created and impressively consolidated on a truly massive, enduring and global scale!