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The Poetry Reading....OMG! free verse from the Balladeer!
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The Poetry Reading....OMG! free verse from the Balladeer! |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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( inspired by a poetry reading I attended today) The poetry reading had begun. Prim ladies dressed in proper attire light blue or yellow dresses hair tied neatly in buns just the right amount of jewelry stopping just short of flashy fingernails manicured expertly painted sitting atop blue-veined backhands rouge evenly applied reading poems of butterflies and lost loves to men attired in three-piece suits Giovanni ties hair combed over from side to side in vain attempt to make one long hair cover the entire head shoes brightly polished over black silk stockings Rolex keeping time with the rythym of the poem. I sat. My time machine mind traveling back thirty years transforming the speaker into a sandal-footed long hair to waist skirt down to ankles fingering love beads broad-rimmed glasses sitting atop upturned nose child of the 60's Virginia Slims cigarette (you've come a long way, baby) dangling from blue-painted fingers Gloria Steinham style. Butterfly poem transformed into make love - not war ban the bomb equal rights for all hell no...we won't go fist militarily raised two fingers V'd in defiance 'No Vietnamese ever called me nigger' Attitude behind blazing eyes foot-stompiong fist-banging child of the times looking for Mr. Goodbar and Joe Dimaggio. At the exit she noticed me sockless tonged feet patched blue-jean shorts under raggedy Iron Butterfly t-shirt (in a gadda-da-vida baby) long, uncombed hair rabble-rousing rhetoric swirling about my head like an angry cloud hiding a beater-than-thou attitude. We shook hands muttered "Nice poem" and for just a brief second the daughter of Aquarius and Allen Ginsberg made time stand still. |
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Lost Dreamer Member Elite
since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464Somewhere near the Rainbow |
Sir Balladeer, This is totally awesome, I love it.  |
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Dr.Moose1 Member Elite
since 1999-09-05
Posts 3448Bewilderment , USA |
I totally agree,you should do this more often! Doc |
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