Nostalgia Music Poems

Turn up the radio and ...
It's the same ol' situation, 
The same songs, same band
That raised my generation 

That was then, this is now
Nothing's changed...

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Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...

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When you hit bliss, what does your mind revert to? 
A song, the lyrics may I be so bold in asking why? 
Do the words...

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His eyes glisten like the seas of that color,
Sapphires glowing in the mysterious moments,
His light silences the moon and the stars,
Shining into the promises from...

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The sudden eighties music craze,
had gone beyond the norm,
the local supermarket,
was swept along by the storm,
as more and more of the shoppers,
joined in with the...

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Breathe life into the jukebox
repurpose an antique sound 
gentlemen whisper and woo
serenade your lady slow 
throw a quarter in the slot 
hold her hand at...

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Remembering the ages, spent with my shadow – priceless moments when I sought her, scrutinized her, emphatically stalked her because, in reality, she was clearly...

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  In the sixties I went to university
    where I experienced much diversity

  For example, among fraternities
 ...

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Gusts thump the windows,
Never seen, but always heard,
Hastening to meet the tallest oaks,
Urging them to sway, bending,
Leaning as if to waltz this way, that way,
Wherever...

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Fingertips click a
desperate breakbeat
as eyes glaze over
in blue light baptism
please overwhelm me

Binary jungle,
you glowing cesspit
through the clipping
curtain echoes a choir
of post-post ironic
agoraphobics. 

Dopamine is a...

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grandpa was excited about his new toy
he brought us to his den, he was bursting with joy
what is it? We asked him, for none of...

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With the help of new technology,
We’re privileged again
To have a brand-new Beatles song
Entitled “Now and Then.”

Though, sadly, John and George are gone,
Their vocals are alive
And...

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Jeweled lights are blinking
Jaunty tunes fill the room
Johnny B. Goode with Chuck
Jumpin' Jack Flash with Mick
Jerry Lee Lewis wails
John Lennon twists and shouts
Jitterbug all night...

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Music fills my heart and embodies my soul
The sounds vibrate it's rock and roll
The band brings me back to days gone by
We are urged to...

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Betty Grable and June Havner
Brought the Dolly Sisters to Life on the big screen
It was 1945

They should have both had top billing
Somehow John Payne sneaked...

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