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Listening to Emmylou
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Listening to Emmylou |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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Sweet crystalline voice weaving songs of heartbreak with shadows of love and redemption, threads some bitter some bittersweet running back through decades to my youth, tied to brittle thoughts cut with precision, polished on the paving stones of life, I love her voice and each choice and turn of phrase; I need this more than I have words to say. These are long hard days for me; no, that’s not a plea for sympathy it is just my own reality, like the anodynes and ice water that may get me through the night, ...like the gunshot just now echoing from some private firefight, sounds about a half mile away, just gang pressure, some new street capitalist on the border of my once sleepy little town; sharp flurries of little sounds, distracting, detracting from the poetry floating in pure harmony from the speakers beside me; pissant little popping sounds, a nine most likely flashing in the thick night air, crackling with the arrogant bravado of the insecure, ...a pause... followed by a boomer now, ...one... a twelve making its presence known, the little nine comes back with chatter, then... ...two/three... ...another pause... ...four; someone knows how it’s done. It is over now; a mother will cry tonight, and all I wanted was to relax, listen to Emmylou and with luck, forget. ©2005 by icebox |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Indeed a "Sweet crystalline voice" Has Emmylou... But she has seen what you saw in this poem, is aware of noises in the night, and the reasons for them....nines and twelves she "knows how it's done" and the reason it is... "Get results, get 'em fast We're ready if you got the cash Someone else will be laughin' last Doin' time in Babyion So put that conscience on the shelf Keep the best stuff for yourself Let the rest fight over what is left Doin' time in Babyion (Time in Babylon Emmylou Harris/Jill Cunniff) Write on, poet -------------ice ><> |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
weaving songs of heartbreak with shadows of love and redemption, threads some bitter some bittersweet running back through decades to my youth, tied to brittle thoughts cut with precision, polished on the paving stones of life, I love her voice ~*~ My husband's favorite... and he too realizes the need against the world. Thank you, icebox |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Reminding me of nights (and days) when I've tried to listen to Carlos Nakai, or Kitaro, or Keith Jarrett, Vivaldi or Tchaikovsky...or quietly read, only to hear one neighbor's giant TV screaming out heavy bass notes from some stupid 'action' movie...vibrating the adjoining walls of this duplex. Or another neighboring family who spend most of their waking hours screaming at one another, hurling verbal insults. And I remember living where it was gunfire on occasion, and ambulances several times each night screaming past my window. And I still remember the sound of rockets flying over the border when I lived in the Middle East. Even in the boonies of Alaska, I was not able to completely escape stupid fighting humans. Is it any wonder I enjoy going out to the horse barn, feeding, even grooming an indoor arena on a muggy day, just to be able to gaze at the canopy of stars at night and listen to a cricket's tune, or an owl hooting nearby? ~sigh~ now you got me goin....  |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
With luck, yes Not much I miss about living where I once did...doing what I once did Even when the winter blows through my shack, I enjoy the absence of the distractions you describe. There's a Gram Parsons CD GP/Grievous Angel Emmylou is a presence on it. I recommend it |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox Sometimes, you just have to turn the music up!  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
You amaze me, an observational distance with keen emotional ties, you write real, but not cold. You simply amaze me lovie. (and yessssssssssss to emmylou)  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
One, or eighteen -- there's no way to shut them out. All we can try for is not to be taken away by them; in the real, or in the little death of memory. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
These are long hard days for me; no, that’s not a plea for sympathy it is just my own reality, Thanks, you~ She certainly inspires you nicely. |
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