Red Rocks and Lulabies

Soulful song

Red rocks and lullabies
Nightcaps and goodbyes

If I had a bottle
if I had a gal
if I could dance

I will clean up
I will fold the chairs
I will sweep the parties litter,

Nightcaps and goodbyes
At the doors
Of cars ,of bars ,of her journeys end

Red rocks and lullabies
Broom-skirts and tall boots
Two step, so smooth my hand
On the soft of her back

If dancing was crying
if wind wouldn't blow
if lungs wouldn't heave

I would bring you back
I would wrap you up , then let you spin
Broom-skirt tall boots smiling at the crowd

Powder blue eyes, Flowers across the pine
Tall pines make dance floors
Flowers make Broom-skirts
Tall pines bend in my sky

if dancing was crying...

Her eyes were powder blue

If Dancing was crying
if wind wouldn't blow
if lungs wouldn't heave

Alone not lonely only a

Pine Soul in a casket.

Author's Note

2013, interesting Her mom wore a powder blue,beret, powder blue coat,scarf,Tall boots,to mass this morning.Compliments all around,She said we were still drunk.I see Synchronicity again,She knew nothing of this poem.

Reviews

[Steven]

"Two step, so smooth my hand
On the soft of her back"

Damnit, YES.

"Powder blue eyes, Flowers across the pine"

Painfully beautiful writing. I can't help but see maggots. And I don't mean that you infer them anywhere. I can't help it. There is something clean about them. We hate the cleaners. Some lovely capturing here, my friend.

[lee von cleef]

odd, but Courtney would of liked the maggot cleaner comment.

[Mark]

If Dancing was crying.... hit's my heart Lee. you pour out more than most can.

[bryandc15]

very emotional piece.... I love this poem:)

[SHEEMA HUQ]

would be good to hear this one performed
moving and soulful

[Southern Cross]

Beautifully written yet so hauntingly sad

[Shelley Holt-Lowrey]

She was much loved. I see her everywhere you go. That she was so well loved makes her short visit here so much more than most. We should all aspire to leave such footprints in our wake.

[lee von cleef]

Thank you, Life lives in us,I hope I have extended the hand of it to readers in such a way they can feel its glow within themselves.

[Shelley Holt-Lowrey]

When do you ever NOT accomplish this Arkansas? When do you ever not?

[fireblossom]

Yeah. This is it. You lost your walls somewhere and never wanted them back. :-)

Way to paint lvc.. !!

[Shelley Holt-Lowrey]

That comment up there summarizes your character better than any ever before. Insightful writer that.

[LA Lorena]

this was beautiful and haunting, full of wistful memory and painted in bright imagery. That's quite a pen you have there! :)

[spiritwind]

Yours is an amazing talent. You tear your reader's heart up something awful with lines like "If dancing was crying
if wind wouldn't blow
if lungs wouldn't heave"

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

You write some alluring folktales that would make great stories around the campfire.

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Wow, Lee, I was singing this........this would make a wonderful song.