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Happy Monday, everyone! Sometimes inspiration strikes with a single word, or in this case, five words. This poem was inspired by Poppy's Prompts #5.
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I wish you were here
to see the painted sky
and the wind dancing across the water.
Capturing the scene
and trapping it in an envelope isn't enough.
The color erodes with time
so the image pales in comparison.
What you hold in your hand is a moment, frozen,
a sliver of when I watched the sun descend under the horizon.
So when it says it, I mean it.
I wish you were here.
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'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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This is a delightful poem using all the word prompts… so nostalgic 💜. ‘ The color erodes with time so the image pales in comparison. What you hold in your hand is a moment, frozen,.’✅
Beautiful!!
I adore the bittersweet feel of this. Those opening lines captivated me and the rest was just as addictive to read. I love how it came full circle, you did that so well.
I have so many postcards like this to send out to those in Heaven!