John Lennon in our minds

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John Lennon in our minds

Post by libramoon » December 11th, 2010, 6:58 pm

Imagine no John Lennon
Even if he hadn't died
No Beatles to remember
His music still inside
Imagine all the people
Never hear his cry
to unite through imagination

It was 30 years ago today
A madman blew Lennon away
Yet, the import of what he had to say
Can not be taken

It is up to us who know
His words are seeds to sow
We can help his message grow
as inspiration


..." in the end, the love you take/Is equal to the love you make."

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Re: John Lennon in our minds

Post by Steve Plonk » December 11th, 2010, 8:32 pm

John Lennon was a great guy. I was acquainted with him. We shared
a view on the Staten Island ferry on one accidental occasion...John was shot by a crazy dude for no good reason...See my #5, "Borne Across the Waters Penny Haiku", in "Some Penny Haiku, Outside the Stall", Page 2, in the Poetry Forum.

John said the Staten Island Ferry was "the greatest ride in town". Back in the day, a person could ride the ferry all day, as long as you didn't get off, for about a quarter. It was around late September, 1979. Our wives were in the restroom. (I think Sean Lennon was home with a sitter that day.) I don't think my wife and Yoko met...I went down to the restroom, myself, and when I got back, John was gone. Never got to meet Yoko...
I met my wife on the stairs coming back up. These things happen...

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Re: John Lennon in our minds

Post by tarbaby » December 12th, 2010, 5:41 am

Joni was right about John:
"You don't know what you got till it's gone."

I was a bitter old man in the sixties, I did not know John Lennon's words and music till much later.

I do remember the first time I really heard this song
Ah, look at all the lonely people
He opened my eyes and helped me have compassion towards my mother. A woman I came close to strangling on the day JFK was murdered.

I tried to write a haiku about it once
I called it
Suicide by Matricide.

I think it was 1972 and I was riding with her in a car and the radio was playing that song. And she reached over and turned it off.

This was nine years after Kennedy and the abreaction over my father's death, it was the morning after the night I tripped on LSD with her, when we talked all night and she become a boy's friend again.

so much for spilling my guts
sorry

“Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?”

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Re: John Lennon in our minds

Post by .Lucy. » December 14th, 2010, 12:23 am

...imagine...
The road to happiness: Perseverance, Endurance and a whole lot of Hope.

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Re: John Lennon in our minds

Post by mb » December 26th, 2010, 6:36 pm

my friend Kenn called me,
said did you hear?
and there's a thing at Forest Park,
did I want to go?

the afternoon was grey,
there was a large crowd at the
amphitheater and some dude
had a boom-box playing
give peace a chance
and we sang along and more
people joined us.
all we are saying....

then some dickhead came in over
a PA system, drowning us out,
some songwriter
I never heard of, and he wanted
everyone to sing the song he wrote,
never mind that Lennon gave us a
perfectly appropriate dirge for his own wake
give peace a chance
give peace a chant
missed the fucking point, this guy with a microphone
and so we went home
and every day had more grey in it
for a long time afterwards.

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