Butterfly Nation: Woodstock Remembered For Dave Flynn and Chana By Isis Andersen

A commemoration of the event of Woodstock and one young man who attended and was my doorway in.

Butterfly Nation: Woodstock Remembered For Dave Flynn and Chana By Isis Andersen

August 19, 2008 09:01 PM EDT (Updated: August 23, 2008 01:38 AM EDT)

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Another Poetic Mission Impossible Challenge from Chana
and this one was/is the hardest... a response to
Joni Mitchell's song Woodstock..  I mean she said it all!
Her song and links are at the bottom of the page.

For Dave and Chana










All Dave Flynn the Golden Child of God... first image two days after Woodstock/
Second image is Dave on one of the towers at Woodstock with all his friends who came with him.  He is in  the bottom right hand corner wearing no shirt and a dark hat and third image is a few years later in 1974 out west in Eugene Oregon.  Yes, the middle image is one of the sound towers.. Dave is always moving at the heart of things.. he is just that kind of man!

I got a close up version of this image and dave flynn is at the bottom right corner no shirt with the brown hat on! and he is cute!








You can see the enlarged version and its worth it!



Butterfly Nation


I know a golden child of God
of the stardust tribe
who went to woodstock seeking answers
and became a part of the butterfly nation
to stand for life and a whole generation
while the world turned and burned
in a senseless conflagration

for a moment enduring in the universal
mind
like many he sought signs hoping to find
through music, love, freedom 
the center of the great wheel
moving beyond time
and
getting back to the garden
back to the land
he did join in a rock and roll band
and set his soul free.










A bus Dave Slept in while at Woodstock

 

*Note:

 

I was given a challenge by a friend named Chana (Hannah, Anne) to write a response to Joni Mitchell's song which is so great. How could anyone really answer that beautiful song? My boyfriend Dave Flynn was there and all the people on the Sound Tower in that photo came together from his neighborhood in Buffalo...he knew well each person up there ..they came in a couple of buses. The people shooting the film for Woodstock took the photos when they found out the kids were all friends and from one neighborhood.

Dave was in a band then too and for many years after making his living as a drummer. He did meet Joni twice during that time and many others because he was near the stage a lot. For a 17 year old he did pretty well at that gathering. However it was not long before he was off in the Navy for the War was raging in southeast asia. He said he went to that gathering with many questions about life.. all of his friends did ..and they wanted to share the music, have fun...but they were looking for something too...unity, an understanding of life... and so it was his conversation with me about that which helped me write the poem.

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[Wildecat]

You've put together quite a piece, I too was around for Woodstock. It is something that I will remember for the rest of my life. Well done.