Friday, December 18, 2020

Sunday Muse #139


Hello and welcome, Musers! Fireblossom here with your weekly picture prompt. This time we have a photograph of the late singer/songwriter Laura Nyro. She wrote fabulous, original lyrics like this one, from "Stony End":


"Never mind the forecast 

cos the sky has lost control

and the fury of the rolling thunder's 

come to match my raging soul"




Or this, from "Sweet Blindness":

"Down by the grapevine, drink my daddy's wine

Good mornin'!

Don't let daddy hear it,

he don't believe in the gin mill spirits

Come on, baby, do a slow float

You're a good lookin' river boat

and ain't that sweet-eyed blindness good to me"




Let the picture speak to you and come back and link what you wrote so we can stop by and read.

30 comments:

  1. Hi gang. I hope that everyone is enjoying themselves! I had a little technical trouble with this post but it's up. Enjoy!

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    1. Head ’em up, move ’em out.

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    2. Come on everyone, sing along with spirit!

      "When spring comes along we'll round up the dogies
      We'll stick on their brands and we'll bob off their tails
      Pick out the strays, then the herd is inspected
      And the very next day we'll go out on the trail

      Whoopee ti yi yo, get along little dogies
      It's your misfortune ain't none of my own
      Whoopee ti yi yo, get along little dogies
      You know that Wyoming will be your new home"

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    3. As a crazed 'Yellowstone' fan .... I salute you.

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    4. "I'm a cowgirl who's never seen a cow

      I can;t rope steers cos I don't know how

      and I sure ain't fixin to start in now

      Yippee yi yo ki yay"

      --"I'm An Old Cowhand" written by the great Johnny Mercer

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    5. This tender lyric reminds me that Roy Rogers lived with a taxidermy of his horse Trigger. Happy Trails!

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  3. The woebegone prompt inspired yet another predictable rhyme. Can't seem to help myself. Happy holidays to all!

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    1. I love the word 'woebegone' ... must incorporate it into a poem one of these days! Rhyme-time is fine.

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  4. Thanks for this very evocative pic of one of my fave singer-songwriters,Shay-- it finally got a few words pried out of me.I will be back tomorrow to read and visit.

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  5. Love this prompt! I haven't been able to write much of anything, but I found a poem this time. Thanks Shay

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  6. Nice prompt, someone I was not familiar with. I should have been, I was the "right" age for her music. I do know some of the songs she wrote, of course.

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  7. Hi kids, not sure if I have a poem in me, but will enjoy reading yours anyway. On the other side of my move, i will get back into my writing routine. Pretty scattered right now.

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  8. Nice prompt: music and challenge
    Happy Sunday to every one

    much love...

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  9. Happy Sunday, the prompt moved me in lyrical song today. I guess I am feeling blue.

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  10. Happy Sunday everyone. I too am in the feeling blue and thinking about songs. So I wrote a sad love song.

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  11. The picture was really nice for me for writing. Thanks for the prompt picture and also for the writeup of Laura Nyro. Her "Stoned Soul Picnic" was my favorite, sung by the 5th Dimension but several of her others were also very fine with me. I had become single again when those were popular. My hair was over my collar and I rode my motorcycle to and in the parks of Houston where a bands wer playing and singers singing under the trees. Janis Joplin came and ZZ Top formed in 1969 in Houston. Many, many others too.
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  12. I am very late to the party here Shay. Christmas frenzy sidetracked me. But I adore Laura, so it was essential I responded to this prompt. What an incredible picture of the songstress. Merry Christmas. I am throwing myself into family. I will emerge, fates willing, in 2021!

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    1. So glad you made it Rob! Merry Christmas to you as well, and enjoy the family! We look forward to seeing you in 2021!

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  13. I was trying to leave this gush over your “Greening The Jade” tonight — but your site just wasn’t having it. Your piece is spectacular Shay. Your heart right there, inked out in love and deep emotion. It is so absolutely captivating that I shed a sweet tear. All this evening and here into the night I have been listening to Laura and drifting back to those days. She was so special, and so damned talented — she just explodes liked fireworks when she sings... and what a poet! Wow! She left much too soon. Oooh oooh child...

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    1. Moderation kicks in after three days. Your comment is up now, Rob. And thanks!

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