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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2012-04-27 09:48 PM

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the years
like a hanging icicle
falls from the roof's eve
to stab you into tomorrow
and tomorrow never stands still
but becomes the today's
of all of your tomorrows

as the years quickly age us
we begin to believe
we have become wise
merely because we have outlived
most of our graduating class
the younger generation
don't know how to pour it out of a boot
our attitude
ah, the lies we tell ourselves
are progressively worse
the older we get

my generation heralded rock 'n roll to the world
an accomplishment
maybe
our parents thought it dangerous
to scream and rant
to the devis music
as I listen to the teen idols of today
I am appalled
appalled, I'm saying
until I stop
shake my head and grin
remembering Black Sabbath
screaming at high volume
in my sixties' style pad in the seventies
Ozzy went on to become a caricature of what he used to be

Alice Cooper was a world full
of nightmares

so here I am
trying to be above it all
trying to dig the new crop of shock bands
trying to not be grandfatherly
but hip, don't cha know, dude, dudette
ain't working
the trash of my time
was better'n today's trash in their time

psst! remember me saying up there somewhere
about the lies we tell ourselves
are progressively worse
the older we get

I think I've proven my point

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ponderthepoetorrsx
Member

since 2011-06-25

Posts 284
U.S , Ca

1 posted 2012-04-27 09:56 PM

i find the past to be an interesting writing topic

yolilitzli

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

2 posted 2012-04-27 10:06 PM

LOL!!!! I love it...very well put

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

3 posted 2012-04-27 10:25 PM

Well put, my friend, and so true. I wouldn't pass on another trip to the 50's, 60's, 70's . . . but I'd make sure and learn to dance ... not just the "Why Dance" dance either ( remember??? Get a couple in the corner, any corner, and then ... WHY DANCE??)

j.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2012-04-28 05:48 AM

Yeah, you got that right, yolilitzli. In fact as you grow older you find yourself writing and thinking about the past more than ever because the future look so bleak.

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Appreciate it, Startime.

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Oh, I could dance back then, J, but most of the dancing in those days was just a lot of hoping around with no real dance steps whatsoever.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2012-04-30 09:17 AM

can't believe I missed this. Ah yes, the kids today. I wouldn't want to be them. But you would be surprised how many of them wear AC-DC T-Shirts. Enjoyed the write.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2012-04-30 09:24 AM

Oh, I know a lot of kids these days like the old time rock and roll. Hey! Good music is good music. Thanks, Lori, for chiming in on this one.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

7 posted 2012-04-30 10:51 AM

effective (and accurate) 'write' !

I am especially fond of the analogy of
years to hanging 'icicles' ...
perched to fall and stab us into
the future!

The 'past' is, of course, irrevocable ... the 'future'
(stabbed or not) powerless to be born. We have
only the precious and mercurial 'now' of infinite
(if often elusive) potential in which to paint the
world in bright, delicious colors ...

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

8 posted 2012-04-30 11:12 AM

Very much appreciated your great comment, Bruce.

Th icicle was meant to represent our original moment of creation as our fathers . . .

You are so right, we are our own special persons, and we can either stand by and watch everything whiz by us, or, as you so aptly coined, "paint the world in bright, delicious colors ..."

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Eloise
Senior Member

since 1999-11-27

Posts 1096
Wyoming

9 posted 2012-04-30 02:30 PM

Ah to relive those days long gone. What fantastic decades they were. Thanks for the read. Well done.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

10 posted 2012-04-30 03:11 PM

I hear what you're saying, Eloise, and thank you for saying it . . .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

11 posted 2012-05-01 01:47 AM

Yep, Jerry, who's foolin who?

Ya grow up with this stuff and it becomes such a part of your own personal history.

I call today's rap music an oxymoron but really who am I to judge.

As long as I live I'll never forget Alvin Lee and 'Ten Years After' doin "I'm Goin Home" at Woodstock and Santana rockin in latino style "Soul Sacrifice".

However, the strangest thing is this, a large majority of today's youth know our old music as well as we do????

I went to a Lynnrd Skynrd concert about 6 years ago and there was 15 - 18 year old kids all around me. They knew all the songs, the words etc. so go figure??

I hear kids 12 - 13 years old listening to Led Zepplin so there's a trip from 1969 - 2012. 43years!! Some of that stuff is timeless.
However, I can't say the same for some forms of the new music but maybe I'm wrong and maybe I really don't care. Like you so cleverly mention in this write, maybe I'm just a stubborn old fool.

I saw James Pankow, Walter Parazaider and Lee Louhane the horn players from Chicago interviewed on TV and they mentioned that in thier
audiences these days sitting in the same row the grandparents, mom and dad and the kids, all listening to them after all these years from 1965 - 2012 - 47 years!!

My 37 year old daughter knows all the Beatles and Stones songs and everything from that era up through til now but she doesn't know much about today's stuff, so I really don't know??

Is it just us old farts or is there something to be said for your writing here??

Tony Bennett still packs the house with young and old?? Well over half a century.......music with class!!

Always enjoy your writing Jerry.

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

12 posted 2012-05-01 06:00 AM

You are so right, Eric! The music for the sixties and seventies era was so dramatically inspired by the events of the world, the war, the sexual revolution . . . it was a time of great musical minds and it will never die, Never.

You have given me some wonderful comments, man, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

13 posted 2012-05-01 06:16 AM

The comments are always deserving Jerry.

I just know your writing is what's making you the man you are today. It's a time to enjoy some peace of mind and let your talent flow.

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

14 posted 2012-05-01 06:22 AM

Eric, my friend, I have never known such peace of mind as I am experiencing in the here and now. I have found a way to forgive old horrors and mistakes, because the man I am today is not the same man I was back than. Therefore it is possible to forgive myself. I'm one happy guy because of it . . .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

15 posted 2012-05-01 06:58 AM

I am sooo agreeing with your latest writings, Jerry.

And I wanted to throw in that last week the kindergartners and first graders gave a singing concert...the songs were a medley of the Beatles...and of course of Katy Perry's...and they were just so darn cute knowing all those words!

Thanks for the recent memories of the past...it brings a smile to my world.

M

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

16 posted 2012-05-01 07:07 AM

Many thanks,M, for your lovely thoughts, and they were lovely as I pictured the kindergartners belting out some Beatles tunes. I'm happy you are smiling this morning.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

17 posted 2012-06-04 01:02 PM

the trash of my time
was better'n today's trash in their time

psst! remember me saying up there somewhere
about the lies we tell ourselves
are progressively worse
the older we get

I think I've proven my point

I had the radio on during a recent road trip and was listening to American Top 40 - replayed from May 1974! And what struck me was that my 22 yr old niece and 13 yr old nephew knew most of the songs enough to sing along. Maybe I am lying to myself or just old and ornery - but I can't imagine too many of the autotuned songs on today's charts sticking around 38 years and several generations?

I really enjoyed this, Jerry! Great write - and trip down memory lane!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

18 posted 2012-06-04 01:18 PM

You're right, suthern, no way in hell today's garbage will hang in for forty or however many years "our" music has, and who know how long it will hang in. Thank you for dragging this one up from the dustbin of yesterday.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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