The Invention of the Electric Guitar
Les Paul left us recently, and his contribution to our culture has both enriched and liberated us. This is a small expression of gratitude for the innovators, for all those spirits that spark.
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! Creative Writing & Poetry !, All Around the Styles, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Canadiana - (with location & limit 3/day), Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), Freedom to Shine, Inspired By Life, Midnight Ramblers, Retired and Happy. 2 a day limit., Shameless Self-Promotion, The beauty of poetry, The New Beat Generation, The Patchwork , The true beauty, Up & Coming Writers, Vibration in Art and Verse - VAVoom!, WMG and Writing: Persuing HappinessDo you remember where you were
when they invented the electric guitar?
I don’t.
I was certainly alive,
a mind-swelling child with
banged-up knees and tangled yellow hair,
my mother’s daily despair.
The first time I heard any electric guitars,
I was standing in a green-grass park
with some other ungainly adolescents
who desperately wanted to conform somehow,
who desperately wanted to find out how.
And then we heard electric guitars
shaking the bright summer air.
I think it was some southern boys
who were wandering almost everywhere,
playing in a big white pavilion
down near the lake over there.
Just then some woman behind me
whispered, “Excuse me, dear, but
your slip is showing and I think
it’s time you cut your hair.”
But those electric guitars
were making waves in the air,
so I just laughed and danced away
and said, “Oh, yeah? Well, excuse me,
but I just don’t care.”
Richard G Witham
Beautiful! I think I may have been there too :D
Wonderful imagery and rhythm.
nancyames replied
Thanks very much, Richard – yes, we were so lucky to be there at the beginning.
Rex Inkpen
ha! what a wonderful description of an awakening, a rebelliousness…
nancyames replied
Thanks, Rex – and, as you may have guessed, a true story.
Solomon Walker
lovely piece!
nancyames replied
Thankyou, Solomon, and I’m glad you like it.