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.
Great prompt!
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DeleteHi gang. I hope that everyone is enjoying themselves! I had a little technical trouble with this post but it's up. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteLove love love the prompt Shay!!
DeleteHowdy!
ReplyDeleteHead ’em up, move ’em out.
DeleteCome on everyone, sing along with spirit!
Delete"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"
As a crazed 'Yellowstone' fan .... I salute you.
Delete"I'm a cowgirl who's never seen a cow
DeleteI 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
This tender lyric reminds me that Roy Rogers lived with a taxidermy of his horse Trigger. Happy Trails!
DeleteThe woebegone prompt inspired yet another predictable rhyme. Can't seem to help myself. Happy holidays to all!
ReplyDeleteI love the word 'woebegone' ... must incorporate it into a poem one of these days! Rhyme-time is fine.
DeleteThanks 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.
ReplyDeleteGreat. If you hadn't posted, Shay was considering us of... her pliers...
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Deleteor....the COMFY CHAIR!!!!!!!!
DeleteNot the COMFY CHAIR!!
DeleteBwahahahaha! Our weapons are fear, surprise...
DeleteLove this prompt! I haven't been able to write much of anything, but I found a poem this time. Thanks Shay
ReplyDeleteNice 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.
ReplyDeleteHi 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.
ReplyDeleteNice prompt: music and challenge
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday to every one
much love...
Happy Sunday, the prompt moved me in lyrical song today. I guess I am feeling blue.
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday everyone. I too am in the feeling blue and thinking about songs. So I wrote a sad love song.
ReplyDeleteThe 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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Great prompt Shay!
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you made it Rob! Merry Christmas to you as well, and enjoy the family! We look forward to seeing you in 2021!
DeleteI 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...
ReplyDeleteModeration kicks in after three days. Your comment is up now, Rob. And thanks!
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