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by Jojovits1 

Posted: 10 May 2020
Word Count: 45
Summary: I was lucky enough spend most of my Saturday nights with the best people in the world at one of the biggest rock venues in the West of Scotland. It really was my tribe. We had a reunion a few years ago and I was begging to go home to bed at 1am! If I could have one night to go back though, I'd go back to being 17. One night would be enough, mind! :-)


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Well practiced
smoky dishevelment.
Peacock feathers
of liner and leather
adorn us
while we gloss our lips
with vodka
and Fleetwood Mac.
 
Fug of hairspray
and half smoked cigarettes.
A bass line
thumps an invitation
to surrender
and howl
under full moon
and flashing lights.






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crowspark at 18:07 on 10 May 2020  Report this post
Hi Jo-Ann

I was a fan of Fleetwood Mac.

Love your poem and deft touchs

Well practiced
smoky dishevelment.
Peacock feathers
of liner and leather
adorn us


and

A bass line
thumps an invitation
to surrender
and howl
under full moon
and flashing lights.


Love it.

 

michwo at 19:34 on 10 May 2020  Report this post
So you haven't always lived in the South-East, Jo-Ann, like Bill hasn't always lived in Shrewsbury if his mention of the South Downs in his poem "Between the stars" is anything to go by.
You were obviously a fun-loving, extravert teenager who enjoyed life.
Fleetwood Mac are one of my favourite groups too.

Jojovits1 at 19:43 on 10 May 2020  Report this post
Nope, Ayrshire lass, Michael. laugh

I moved to England when I was 18/19 with a plan to move back when I had some work experience under my belt (there were few opportunities where I lived at the time and my uncle was always on at me to move down for work).  Meeting my husband when I was 21 put the kaibosh on that though!

I really had the very best circle of friends though and am still friends with many of them today.  My tribe.

 

V`yonne at 13:39 on 11 May 2020  Report this post

while we gloss our lips
with vodka
and Fleetwood Mac.

Oh to be 17! Oh to have ever been 17 in my case frown I recognise the energy but not alas the freedo.
Great take on the challenge.

skyfly2 at 06:34 on 24 May 2020  Report this post
Hi Jo-Ann
quite ironic i was playing fleetwood mac last night on my blue tooth head phones before reading your story.
They sure were a great band.
 A lot of deep under tones and troubled relationships, which I believe fired there music
Good to read your account at 17.
.

Bazz at 15:43 on 25 May 2020  Report this post
Hi Jo, reminds me of similar times, great way to capture the feel and energy, the taste and sensation of youth, the sheer pulse and vitality of it :)


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