SONGS ARE LIKE TATTOOS

HEY BLUE here is a song for you.  It seems several lifetimes ago, Joni Mitchell tattooed her name on my heart.  The Viscount reminded me of this recently. Romance is a shared history, a shared bleeding out.  Love is touching souls. Joni, surely you touched mine.

JONI MITCHELL, GRAND MAMA of EMO and singer-songwriter spawn spun such bittersweet confections for the confused and the late contrite.  A part of her pours out of me in these lines from time to time.  I grew up in the kitchen of a girl who played me Joni Mitchell songs open tuned on her guitar.  In the wreckage which is adolescence I learned from Lisa to open tune my life.  When I get the urge for going, I hear Lisa in the wind. And Joni too.  The music on the wind is a soft reminder of some gone long ago and far away who are not so distant as we might forget.

Comments

[True Blue Liberal]

Must be something in the air. I've been walking around for the last week with Little Green and The Last Time I Saw Richard stuck firmly in the melody center of my brain.

[zencomix]

...and the painted pony goes up and down...

[The Viscount LaCarte]

In the wreckage which is adolescence I learned from Lisa to open tune my life.

Nice.

[michelle]

and its coming on Christmas
and they're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on...

[isabelita]

When I first saw this, I worried that Joni Mitchell had died and you were memorializing her. Fortunately that isn't so.
I first heard her poetry and music back in about 1968, before I graduated from high school. We probably have vinyl LP's of all her stuff.
Occasionally asshole guys mocked her, but she's a classic. Just try to figure out her guitar tunings, or attempt to sing her songs. She's a quiet genius.

[Diane]

Joni is a music god. Last year I wrote a sonnet in tribute to her. I can't even begin to express what her work has meant to me.

[dorsano]

I thought the same myself Isabelita - glad to know it isn't so. To lose both a painter and a poet is double loss.

There are places to come from and places to go
Night in the city looks pretty to me
Night in the city looks fine
Music comes spilling out into the street
Colors go flashing in time
Take off take off
Take off your stay-at-home shoes
Break off shake off
Chase off those stay-at-home blues

[Children Anxiety Disorder]

I really like the tattos with style...

[Affiliate Promotion]

I got a similar tatto on the neck, maybe i can send you some pictures let me know.

[Cialis Online]

VERY NICE COMMENT!!!

[Generic Viagra]

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[Generic Viagra]

mmmmmmmm I have four tattoos!! one on my neck, two in my back and one belowwwwwwwwww my navel!
;)
fairy, mermaid, cat and rose!
debra