Sally Eslinger Poet Rhyme

Classic Radio

Classic Radio

I crave classic radio!
Boston Blackie and The Shadow;
Captain Midnight; Fibber Maggie and Molly;
Ace detectives fighting crime;
Or comedians making up limericks in rhyme.

Keep the TV for my husband to watch now
As I wear earphones, letting him wonder how
It is I’m laughing so much through every hour
As snarky sleuths and Groucho Marks make our
Pups wag their tails as my happy mood devours

The winter gloom that can pervade the room.
The old jokes I hear are so old they do seem new.
The shows span post-war-2 through the mid-fifties,
Before every home in America had TV’s,
So thus passed every hour by radios every night,

Waiting for suspense dramas or live boxing fights.
I was a baby in those days, hearing the Lone Ranger
On Silver riding masked into the sunset, a better
Man in an era when good differing bad was clear.
Still,  it’s I who now, in this era, keeps a mask near.

You can search Classic Radio shows on the net,
For hours of escape in our chaotic days, and get
Your hands busy to do other things, for you
May exercise or write or clean or dream into
The imagination expansion power of Listening cues.

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c)sally Young eslinger 1/30/21

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JC Brul February 1, 2021 at 3:22 PM Awesome Sally! I love radio,too...During our times it used to be an analog one and you have to put batteries..sometimes batteries became distorted in trying to maximize the capacity..sometimes we put under the sun and back to radio again...Those were the days..Radio can entertain us in a manner that we are not destructed from doing our tasks.Thank you Sally..You bring us back to those gold old days with this splendid write. Sally Eslinger February 3, 2021 at 8:53 PM Thank you, JCB! So glad to write a piece someone foundenjoyable. I never heard of such battery radios. Sounds awful. You reminded me, tho, the around age 16, my dad got a short wave radio & I didn’t have a call name but loved turning the dial to overhear people converse all over the world, that I esp loved on New Years Eve, to hear place by place as the new year arrived. Great you made me recall that! All the best to you! Be well! Sally

Vijay Pandit January 30, 2021 at 1:23 PM Classics of yore come in handy when we are tired of the same old news and shows. I can feel your longing for the memories--beautifully articulated, Sally. Sally Eslinger February 3, 2021 at 8:29 PM Thank you, Vijay. I’ve been a radio person most all my life, cause others occupied tv with shows that didn’t interest me I was also timed to age just out of the radio drama years, tho late at night some would play somewhere I’d catch &tey were magic! I go to a site called Tune-In & you can get anything there including all sorts of poetry broadcasts like The Yorker has a weekly poetry show. So does Poetry magazine. Except when meditating, I can’t stand silence. The voices & music on radio are company. Thanks for your kind support!

Victor Buhagiar January 30, 2021 at 9:25 AM Memories of old days. It took us a while to get TV. So radio was the only choice. ~~ Sally Eslinger January 30, 2021 at 11:42 AM Yes & I recall early B & W TV Saturday morn shows for kids of course way yrs before cable. I bet even where you are you can google &gat classic Radio. I think there are more doors to the imagination ears than eyes. Have a good evening,Victor!