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Jonas Senior Member
since 2000-03-03
Posts 796Oregon 
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Musical Salvation Regression to a simpler time of numbing classroom drudgery and endless lunchroom lines. Teachers droned on and on, about something I'm sure. But I never paid attention. Inside my mind was a different noise. A symphony of acoustic guitars and beautiful voices. Ann and Nancy, darling gypsies belting out "Mistral Wind" while the real Fleetwood Mac kept telling me, "Don't Stop" Pink Floyd took me away to the "Dark Side of the Moon". An awesome journey from which I have yet to return. I walked down "Baker Street" swinging to Rafferty's jazzy beat. Then spent a night with Eagles in the horrific "Hotel California". When I think of my youth, it is not the fun and games, nor the freedom I remember. Even my first kiss is forgotten. It is the music I remember. Simple words and melodies, that even now, many years later, still haunt and satisfy my soul. © 6/13/00 Gary Pence |
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kelieth Member
since 2000-06-12
Posts 314Normal IL - USA |
A great way to return your youth. An adventourous trip back to when things were simple.  Great poem. Kevin "Anything is possible with patience, time is the tool use it to reach your goals." |
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Dennis L. White Senior Member
since 2000-02-17
Posts 1463Michigan, U.S.A. |
JONAS, The power of song and verse is amazing, the melodies that inhabit our dreams also carry us through our days. You poem brought back many memories of the bands of my youth, ah to be young again! Loved this piece! Dennis :^) |
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childomine Senior Member
since 2000-01-25
Posts 818st. petersburg, FL |
This is very good Gary. Music has always had a wonderful power over me and I can definitely relate! |
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Swåmp¤Faerÿie Member
since 2000-03-29
Posts 358Illinois |
Ahhh.....you've named all my favorite artists!! isn't music just the greatest. Today music just doesn't measure up compared with the REAL bands....sigh....i love the way you put it all in verse,wonderful tribute =] swamp And there she weaves by night and day, a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
This is great Gary! Music does play such a bit part in our lives, especially in the memory department! But I will never forget my first kiss! Denise |
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Alle'cram Senior Member
since 2000-02-28
Posts 1816Texas |
Gary, I loved this piece. Wow, so true, it is the music remembered. Great job on this one. |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
Gary, this is great!! Most of these are artists I grew up with and I still listen to them today. Wonderful memories *sigh* Poetry~ Words falling on paper, painting a dream. Shawna R. Holder Boise, Idaho |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
When I think of my youth, it is not the fun and games, nor the freedom I remember. Even my first kiss is forgotten. It is the music I remember. Simple words and melodies, that even now, many years later, still haunt and satisfy my soul. I love when music transports you to another place somewhere wonderful especially when you are stuck some where boring like school. a wonderful poem. Much enjoyed. ------------------------ "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. "Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso "We Irish are too poetical to be poets, we are a nation of brilliant failures" Oscar Wilde ----- |
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Jonas Senior Member
since 2000-03-03
Posts 796Oregon |
Thank you for all the kind words! I love older music. Today's sounds just don't have the same "heart" as the music I grew up with. Thanks again all! |
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Lost Dreamer Member Elite
since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464Somewhere near the Rainbow |
Gary, Love your poem, you strung it together perfectly. Brought back memories of all the great bands that graced my growing up years. |
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Jonas Senior Member
since 2000-03-03
Posts 796Oregon |
Thank you LD...I was listening to "Dog and Butterfly" by Heart when this one came to me. |
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