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iliana
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0 posted 2006-01-12 01:12 AM


*~*~*~*~*
When Ventura was a highway
That appeared within a song
That was where you’d find me
Traveling all alone.

The 70s were my freedom
And I wandered Country Roads.
I drank at Hotel California.
Never kept a heavy load.

The 80s brought realization
Girls just Wanna Have Fun-un.
Mr. Mister was my escort
Kyrie Eleison.

The 90s brought a distant drum a’thumpin’
Tired of this land, had to run.
To Java’s coast I took a journey.
Losing My Religion was the tone.

Now wandering is over though my mind still has that lust.
Feels like veils have lifted leaving Dessert Rose in dust.
*~*~*~*~*


[This message has been edited by iliana (01-13-2006 01:10 AM).]

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JL
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1 posted 2006-01-12 01:16 AM


Sing it GIRL!  
I can relate to this one. COOL!
Enjoyed
JL


iliana
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2 posted 2006-01-12 01:23 AM


Thanks, JL.  Had to go back and change the Annie Greensprings thing; I think it's better this way.??   ...jo
Honeybunch
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3 posted 2006-01-12 01:33 AM


"Now wandering is over though my mind still has that lust."

And always will have, Jo!  One can't live without music - the music of the soul!

iliana
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4 posted 2006-01-12 01:36 AM


Thanks for the comment, Helen.  Yes'm and I might add, you sing some mighty fine soul.   ...jo
tracie66
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5 posted 2006-01-12 01:44 AM


Dear Jo~
this is great, I loved it very much.

~hugs~
Tracie

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe



iliana
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6 posted 2006-01-12 01:46 AM


Thanks, Tracie66.  Wasn't sure if everyone knew these songs.  Glad you liked it.   ...jo
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7 posted 2006-01-12 01:53 AM



Music Note Enjoyed this joyful trip down Country Roads ~ er, "memory lane"! Music Note


Linda

iliana
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8 posted 2006-01-12 01:54 AM


Thanks, dear Earth Angel!  I love to sing, too....hehehe.   jo
weepingwillow
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9 posted 2006-01-12 02:50 AM


Got songs flowing in my head...Nice write
iliana
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10 posted 2006-01-12 03:05 AM


LOL -- my muse is singing up a storm tonight!  Thanks for your post.  jo
tracie66
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11 posted 2006-01-12 04:46 AM


Oh Yeah, know em and luv em....thanks Jo

~hugs~
Tracie

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
                        — W. E. Channing



ice
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12 posted 2006-01-12 06:37 AM


A beautiful song, Iliana...
With old recalls rising in shadows between the lines-
Of someone on the road with stuck out thumb
A long, long time ago..and also
other old songs that had great impact on my life
*
"You are my children
my sweet children
I am your poet."

"So walk to the edges of a dying kingdom
There's one more summer just around the bend
The amber in your smile is brave and winsome
for though your highway has no end, it never ends
There is still the sky
the windy cliff
and the sea below it
I'd take an angel's ram horn trumpet
and I'd blow it
I'd blow it."

(Joan Baez "The Hitchhikers Song")

OK, you have done it again...call my emotions stirred..

______  ___ice
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icebox
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13 posted 2006-01-12 10:17 AM


Made me smile!

Also, I had forgotten about all the kool-aid wines like "Annie Greensprings"  thanks for the memory!!!


Suetang
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14 posted 2006-01-12 04:04 PM


iliana

Being a huge music fan and born in the sixties, I really appreciated this well written piece.  Fabulous!

Take care........Sue

I am in motion
I am blue
Love is an ocean
I'm anchored in you
- Shawn Mullins

OwlSA
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15 posted 2006-01-12 04:25 PM


Thank you for the music!

Enjoyed the song and the wanderlust and the pathway down the decades.

- Owl

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16 posted 2006-01-12 04:47 PM


I would really like to know what you and
your muse had for lunch...particularly what
you both had to drink?????  Eh?  Can you
help me with this one???

iliana
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17 posted 2006-01-12 04:59 PM


BJ - notice that it was after 2 am when this poem came into being so I don't think it was anything we (musie and I) had for lunch...lol.  Actually, my muse was quite active last night.  Although I admit, I changed one of her phrases after I posted it.  That phrase had to do with Annie Greensprings (a cheap wine in the late 60s and 70s).  Who knows, maybe she was drinking after all...but I wasn't, really!  
kayjay
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18 posted 2006-01-13 08:52 AM


So many events of our lives are defined by the music of the time.  Along with most folks with some years on them, the music of our youth sings most sweetly.
Thanks for this one, Jo, music is the Esperanto of the world.  Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

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19 posted 2006-01-13 03:13 PM


Thanks for this delightful rush of memories! *S*
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20 posted 2006-01-14 08:37 PM


Jo,

The time has flown, hasn't it?  I remember sitting in the blue VW listening to those songs with you.  There must be a song for every time and place!  Now you've got me thinking how I'd document my life!  Here's one:  "Going out of my Head"  (only at times!) or how 'bout "Spinning Wheel"  what goes up must come down (and here, I thought  that one was about the law of gravity!)  But even if they were created before my time, I've probably spent most of my time "Following the Yellow Brink Road"! to find if I only had a heart!

  Enjoyed this a bunch, Jo.  

cathy

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21 posted 2006-01-15 01:35 AM


A sweet song and a sweet memory.

"Now wandering is over though my mind still has that lust."

Ah, how I know that song. Thanks for singing it to me.



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22 posted 2006-01-16 10:24 PM


Love you, mom!
Ab

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23 posted 2006-01-17 06:27 AM


I might help with this,
but I can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Enjoyed the stirring together of the songtitles,
I salute you from The Dark Side of the Moon
and may your Money problems never stand in the way since I know you aren't the Material Girl type.

Gloom
(the gray)

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24 posted 2006-01-17 04:10 PM


and I have just begun my wandering~~~

love how you think...

M

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25 posted 2006-01-17 09:52 PM


wow !!!! perfect script
i enjoyed this , being a long hair rebel myself lol Peace

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jackiej
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26 posted 2006-01-22 02:56 PM


I don't know the song but I like the way it brought reflection to ones mind.


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27 posted 2006-01-22 03:15 PM


Beautiful song of poetry, Jo!!
Loved it!.
Huggies,
Ethel

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28 posted 2006-02-12 03:44 PM


Bravo !!!!   I was caught up in THE SOUND OF SILENCE and reading your poem. This one really had me REELIN IN THE YEARS. It took me back to a far away YESTERDAY...  When I was GRAZING IN THE GRASS and EIGHT MILES HIGH on SWEET CHERRY WINE...walking in the SUMMER BREEZE and SISTER GOLDENHAIR called me her SUNSHINE SUPERMAN.  Whatever may be BLOWIN' IN THE WIND and even though THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING, I am always reminded to CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON, for you are just DUST IN THE WIND and even though EVERYBODYS TALKING, just LET IT BE. Because, all ACROSS THE UNIVERSE...ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.  Precious iliana, I could not have constructed a better time machine IF I WAS A CARPENTER. You have wonderfully placed TIME IN A BOTTLE.  I am always blessed by your muse and your NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN.    Wonderful !!!!!
iliana
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29 posted 2006-02-12 03:51 PM


Uriah, that was one heck of a response!  I think I enjoyed that more than writing the poem!  
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30 posted 2006-02-12 03:51 PM


I'll bet you thought
I'd never get around
to saying

thanks, for this one!



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iliana
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31 posted 2006-02-12 03:53 PM


My sweet, SIL, don't know how you find that time....but thank you and *hugs*.....jo
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32 posted 2006-02-12 04:19 PM


iliana, your singing my song! I look back on those years myslef with much joy.
Peace :-)

Klassy Lassy
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33 posted 2006-03-20 04:39 AM


Iliana, this is fantastic writing, beautifully done. I missed out on so much music in the 70's and 80's, but Country Roads leaves a softness in my mind.  You have done a wonderful reflection on the different decades, and I found it interesting and intricately woven!

Karen    


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34 posted 2006-03-29 09:14 PM




(smiles) I truly have this same sort of nostalgic wanderlust deep in my heart too, dearest friend, though I never got to grow up during the 60's and 70's! (giggles) I dream of travelling up and down the Mother Road (U.S 66) in the near future one summer and losing myself in that sort of nostalgia like Kerouac, yay, this is wonderful, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Jo, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"

Mother Teresa

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35 posted 2006-03-29 10:11 PM


I'll always be stuck in the 70s
a good decade, it was

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