Captured by the blue grass on the lawn
we lay in the sunshine of banjo rhythms
harmonica and Kentucky pain and pleasure
gathers our world in the shambles of a grind
guttural delivered from a foot stomping stage
you can’t bury us in the memory of winter spent
it is a sweet Indian summer, sticky upon our lips
that golden sun, it does fall, and brings us into
a river of soul and a cappella polished rocks
of prayer upon the whisper of love wrapped
in a smile that clipity-clops for a country mile
picks, plucks and pulls me onto my feet
and we dance with a thousand strangers
holding onto a dream, we live today, because
just because, I love you, swept away on a melody
that promises the simple gifts of freedom of we
oh, will you come away, come away, with me,
into some place, into the night, into tomorrow.

∞

Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).

Today’s prompt:  Day Fifteen:  Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music. Try to recreate the sounds and timing of a pop ballad, a jazz improvisation, or a Bach fugue. That could mean incorporating refrains, neologisms and flights of whimsy, or repeating/inverting lines or ideas – whatever your chosen musical form would seem to require! Perhaps a good way to start is to listen to your favorite piece of music and “free-write” for the duration of the piece, and then use what you’ve written as the building blocks for your poem

30 Poems in 30 Days

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