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nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

0 posted 2008-03-09 05:03 PM

Over the years
the folk songs
have not changed meaning,
those from the sixties and seventies.
Listening to them reminded me
of another time of turmoil
and hope and reason.

I was a flower child
but in naiveness,
if ever there was such a thing.

I never expected
to feel those emotions return.
But today, while trying to relax,
I heard the songs of my youth
and their promise
of a tomorrow...

M

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

LadyTom
Member

since 2008-02-29

Posts 353
LA, CA

1 posted 2008-03-09 05:56 PM

beautiful poem. A soft song.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

2 posted 2008-03-09 06:21 PM

Music is surely a sign of the times, and always worth playing again and again~

Nice writing here, Maureen~

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2008-03-09 06:34 PM

ALL seasons are good for listening to music.
Enjoyed this one, M.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2008-03-09 07:06 PM

Music awakens us into new hope.

I love your words, dear Maureen!

Love.
Margherita

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2008-03-10 06:59 AM

Thank you, everyone for your kind responses.

(and Blues~~ I miss you and hope you are well)

M

effjayel
Senior Member

since 2007-09-30

Posts 1474
At the Crossroads of Infinity

6 posted 2008-03-10 04:53 PM

M, this took me back, I too remember The Byrds & their ilk, I just think we were so lucky to grow up with for the most part what turned out to be classics. I have been listening to a lot of the music of my youth of late....the soundtrack to my life. I loved this & shall keep it...Thanks John

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

7 posted 2008-03-10 04:57 PM

Yeah...me too, my friend...and then I look in the mirror and see where those years were...ah, if it wasn't for klennex I couldn't even write this.....heh...

j.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

8 posted 2008-03-10 05:31 PM

too bad the 'promise' and social momentum of the 60's was aborted
and the "Runaway American Dream" has since further devolved into a
corporate mediocracy wherein (with the help of mass media; the internet;
and ever more ruthless politics) everything is being defined strictly in
economic terms (whereby key decisions are skewed toward only whatever
is corporately convenient and 'bottom-line-friendly.') "hope and reason" are
grand-fine but fast-fading dreams...especially for the rapidly increasing
numbers of 'disenfranchised' folk (the 'have nots' of our economic caste system!)

applause for this 'penning!'

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

9 posted 2008-03-11 06:47 AM

Thanks again. *Jwesley, I try not to look in the mirror except when necessary.

Rick
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 2903
Victoria, Australia

10 posted 2008-03-14 07:19 PM

Beautiful Maureen, the promise of tomorrow, how wonderful, a great write my friend, hope you enjoy this day and the next

Rick

Oklahoma Rose
Senior Member

since 2008-02-28

Posts 1586
Oklahoma USA

11 posted 2008-03-15 12:02 PM

This is so beautiful.

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