My Imagination Of John Denver Came To Life

John Denver Poetry Contest Anthony Biaanco Gathered around a campfire Folks sing, clap, and dance Take me home on country roads Rocky Mountain high High above an eagle circles A passing deer pauses Other critters awaken To listen to John Denver ... sing ... of nature and relationships Where his songs light the fire And where his heart lights the night With wholesomeness ... and sentiment and nostalgia As the night warms on And more logs are added to the fire The intimacy grows A pipe is passed around Along with a bottle of whisky As women and men gather closer To the man, John Denver Seated in front of the camping fire ... and holding fort to his songs ... with a guitar in his arms the sunshine on his shoulders Bespeckled with his blond shaggy hair Denver fills the air ... leaving on a jet plane ... timeless, down to earth and fun For this night he played to the crowd ... the Rocky's came alive His good side, he's the life of the party Where the exterior of the man is admiring Denver graced the cover of 40 Albums Covering four decades His superlatives include One of the world’s best-known and admired performers Songwriter, performer, actor, environmentalist and humanitarian He also loved poetry (poet laureate), dabbled in aviation and Nasa However, it would be pretentious to exclude his bad side ... and this is where the passing deer from above sheds a tear ... and perhaps many of his fans Because behind all that charm is a curse Denver, according to many accounts on the net, was bad He was a bad human A bad drunk, chronic smoker, wife beater, and a bit whacko Denver died in 1997 in a plane crash, in a plane that he built Today the Rocky's are full of nature and life With tall mountain ridges, forests, lakes, and rivers And well-traveled trails, like the man Somewhere a motorist is pantomiming one of his songs ... and smiling