Rock Synergy Rolls
While Jimi’s stringed paranoia purples
plucked at hazed wing,
and kissed the yellow submarine sky,
Beatles were seen
crawling Liverpool pubs
that Lucy wept her love
from
eight days a week;
a watchtower
never dry.
Van’s mystic brown eyes
danced moons
in prose
while killer Queens
bit rhapsodies sweet
tender like a
Spanish rose,
of crazy son and daughter,
both honeyed
and stoned.
The sharp dressed legs
of Billy and Page
were planted upon
leveed stairway
as confused immigrants,
with tushes dazed,
shook their dimpled legs
and rambled on
in La Grange.
Stevie’s dusted gold spoons
stormed sisters of moon
just seventeen years old,
while laced leather chains
turned edges of rooms
into stone
too soon.
Eric’s heavenly tears poured
Layla’s breeze,
clapped in cocaine,
as rabbits jumped the
white planes Graced
at Slicked roads that crossed
and still do
to this day.
Janis’s Kozmic whiskey,
those spilled pieces
of Jack Daniels and heart,
chained balls blue while
baby cried time, so
comfortably numb, to
bricked walls
of careless sheep
and pigs
in line.
As Dylan’s tambourine
pinballed ladies that lay,
they knocked at heaven’s door;
that teenage wasteland of
of blue eyed fools,
those towns and moons.
Jagger’s “paint it black”
struck at the back
of thunder beasts
burdened
as hell’s highway bells
shook Bon’s cott
all night long
that wreaked
of bourbon.
And the storm riders’ love,
so madly misunderstood
under
L.A.’s rising sun,
housed lights bright
that broke through spells
and
estranged baby blues.
But, cry for the bad men son;
those fortunate fools that rose
in midnight poison as
the whiskeyed rain
housed
free bird Ron
forever Gone
Fishin
the
great beyond.
These poets of rock
once wooded and stocked
are wasting, waning like
crescent shades of
mooned fade.
But poets they shall remain
as kings and queens
of music
and art
eternally.
Never forgotten.
-m.bl
About the Author
Megan Blahnik is an American music journalist and writer living in San Diego, California, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of our @untwine.usa location. She is a soon-to-be-published poet and illustrator with a writing background in classic rock and marketing content creation. She currently is a social media marketer and web content generation specialist for a local marketing firm in San Diego and loves her life in Golden Hill with her cat and her boyfriend. Her undying passion for clever wit prose and poetry and dedication toward her craft drive the very reason for heading this team with grace.
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