Tuesday 28 May 2013

Creative Challenge #253 ~ Instrument

The Instrument

 The Instrument

There once was a time
So long ago
When from this Guitar
Sweet music would flow

A beautiful  Instrument
So slick in my hand
It held dreams of wonder
For me and the band

Fingers would drift 
across golden string
The music it made 
would make the heart sing

It carried me far 
across many lands
Making sweet Music,
 just me and the band

Time goes so fast 
As does come age
All memories now
The turn of the page


Fingers now stiff
They won't pay a bar
But they still feel the beauty
Of this old Guitar

The memories it conjurers
They carry me far
To a  time when you loved me
and this old Guitar

But time carried you away
ripped from my hand
and with you the music 
that flowed from my hand

Now there are just memories
Many stories at hand
We sit and we tell them 
Me and the band

On the porch at sunset
A beer in our hand
We trade those old stories 
Me and the band

The day will come soon
I will be back at your side
once more I will make music 
For my beautiful Bride



13 comments:

  1. A very nice story within the poem and the photo could be your album cover!

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  2. Nice write of your memory with your guitar.
    I hope you let us know when you make music for your lucky Bride. :)

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    1. LOL its not Memories Sophie just fiction, the bride is dead so the only place he will be playing any music is when he meets her again in Heaven;)

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  3. This was wonderful, Baz..... would make a hit song, those beautiful words and that photo...will you be going to Nashville???? LOL

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  4. Very nicely written, mate!! A great 'accompaniment' to the photo :-))

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  5. You say "fiction" but there is more truth in this than you know. I am the current owner af a violin that has been in my family for at least 4 generations (one of the few things that made the trip from Ireland.) Unfortunately what you say about the fingers being too stiff is 100% accurate. In a few months I am taking my fidddle with me when I visit my son and his baby (any day now) in Cleveland, Ohio where it will be presented to generation 5 and 6 and once again I hope to hear the beautiful tones of my instrument. (BTW .. if this fiddle could talk it would tell us how it managed to get from Italy to Ireland. It has been authenticated as an original from a maker of fiddles called Amadi in Italy. His name is not as familiar as the name of his student, a guy named Stradavari. I suspect that had the original owenr in my family known this in Ireland, it would have been sold for food. But that would have pre-suppsed anybody else would have had money to spare, which of course they did not.

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  6. Wow... what a coincidence! My entry is also about a guitar (Portuguese), not so beautiful as yours, different in shape and with twelve steel strings. Love your write...very poetic and romantic!

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  7. I just loved that verse. Which band did you play for?

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