"Hi Ho Silver Lining"

Cherry

By Silver Spun Sand

Thu, 15 Apr 2010
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“...and away you go now baby;
I see your sun is shining,
but I won’t make a fuss...”
Lyrics:- Scott English & Larry Weiss

Just when I thought I was over you,
you made your appearance, taking me
completely by surprise.

I met you by the wayside...electric-blue;
leading the wind a merry dance –
free spirit that you are.

For one moment I was uncertain
and then you stood out from all the rest...
for you are no common cowslip

nor prissy primrose, but a windflower –
complete with hippy hat, flapping
in the breeze

brim, cocked over one eye; your face
locked in laughter as you tried, in vain,
to stop it escaping.

You hadn’t changed. Your floresence
lives on and on and then, as now,
you are our song.

“Everywhere and nowhere, baby.
That’s where you’re at...”

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Submitted by Kahdai on
Hello Tina, after a long catch up ... I would have been in the swing sixties yet only now decide I woiuld have been a hippy I was a little too young to join in /all/ of the actoin :)

"I will make sense with a few reads \^^/ "

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Hello, Kahdai!;-) It is so good to hear from you. I hope you are well. Well I most certainly was a hippy...flower-power and all that. Pleased I took you back to the swinging sixties, even if you were too young to have been there originally. Tina x

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on
This was such a cool poem Tina, it reminded me of the first time I went to London, I think it was about 1965, not quite sure, but I was with my parents and I begged them to take me to Carnaby Street. I just wish I'd been old enough to go on my own, I loved all the gear so much and I remember pinching the budgies bell out of his cage, because I desperate to wear a bell and be like all the rest of the cool people, I loved the mini flowered dresses, I had a psychedelic mini dress in swirling colours of purple and blue, with a big round zip on the front and I wore a big floppy hat, like the one in your poem. Thankyou for bringing back those memories Tina. Jenny.

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Hi there, Jenny...sunshine again today;-) I'm really pleased this one brought back such good memories for you. You really did make me laugh about the budgie's bell. I used to have a budgerigar called Peter, and I would buy him all sort of toys, but he never played with them...only his bell, so it was a good job you didn't pinch his;-) Many thanks for your lovely comment. Tina;-)

 

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