Lara's Southern Porch Party & Poetry

Nona will love your poem, shalimar! Your expressiveness is beautiful and so well written. So true of Nona too.

Thanks for stopping by AZJim or I wouldn't have noticed all the fun going on in here still. So, turn up the porch light...time for me to recite a poem soon (calm down everyone, contain your excitement) and enjoy meanderer's many jammin' friends spilling off the porch onto the front lawn. They're coming out of the woodwork!

I'm CRAZY about Steve Melton's Cowboy Poetry!!...and John Fogerty's Crawdads & Corn-on-the-cob party and music fun. Thank you meanderer for providing such fun music so indigenous to the south.

Here's another guest to show up on our porch from South Carolina. There are 4 songs. I think he warms up after the first.

Notice the mesmerizing gentle breeze swaying the palm fronds:

 

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"I believe he told me true, the right thing's always the hardest to do." Love that! Also liked the palms in the background, putting their palms together for Jason! HAHA! Thank you, ma'am! :)
 
Here's A little Blackberry Blossom, Drunken Sailor and Old Joe Clark by Monica Lobser (banjo) and Lynn Eschbach (guitar).:D
 

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^ I grinned the whole time I watched this, meanderer. So endearing and fun. Pure unadulterated music. No frills.
Question: The lady in the back…what instrument is she playing?? Looks like a siphon of sorts.

Here's some more porch entertainment. No frills except that pearl embellished (or abalone shell?) guitar neck…NICE :cool:

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That was fun, Lara. Reminds me of some of our old get togethers way back when.
 

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Good photo Pappy. I didn't know you had musical talent. It must have given you untold pleasure. I can't imagine. Lyle Lovett's porch song was good…thx, m
 
Notice that the fellow has a tambourine on the floor, to tap his foot on. Cool idea!
 
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What a treasure these musical pieces are. I'm really enjoying each one and must say, you have a way of inviting the perfect friends to enhance our Porch Party.

And now for the highlight (haha), it's time for another poetry reading:

Autumn

Every step time takes

upon harvested fields

leaves footprints in autumn's

bountiful memories

now bedding down for

winter's silent slumber ~ Lara

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Thank Ye, Lara! Winter's silent slumber, sounds good!:)
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"Way back in 1964, New York filmmaker, David Hoffman was headed down with his new 16mm hand help camera (weight 49 lbs!) to spend three weeks driving the backcountry around Madison County, North Carolina, in the center of Appalachia, with the 82 year old founder of the pioneer Asheville Mountain Music and Dance Festival, Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The resulting film, "Bluegrass Roots" lets you hear and experience the hard scrabbling, dirt road real people sounds that dominated the back country of the southern mountains 50 years ago".
 
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Thank you for posting that. You weren't kidding when you said, "Bluegrass Roots….hard scrabbling, dirt road real people sounds that dominated the back country of the southern mountains 50 years ago."…fun and interesting to watch.
 
the broom

witches say brooms
during full moons
will stand in a room
on their own

their claim impugned
for here is a broom
cleaning a room
full moon it is not

center of gravity
balanced strategy
moon depravity
no twitch of my nose

it just posed ~ Lara (aka melanie in the online-literature forum where a lot of my poems were first written)

(It was easy to do, been there for 5 hours, looking a little odd but going strong.
I've walked all around it, shaking the floor. I think I'll spook someone when Halloween comes.
What I don't get is why it keeps falling over when it's in the closet leaning against the wall!)

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meanderer…thank you for another porch music video. I don't know how you do it! This thread is a great collection of these porch songs because they are nearly impossible to find. I know I'm all out of resources.

Rider….come and set a spell. Anytime :) Here, I've poured you somethin' tall and strong….sweet ice tea

Here you go Rider: http://www.vevo.com/watch/alan-jackson/its-five-o-clock-somewhere/USAV60300009
 
Very clever Nancy. Here's a tall glass of of ice tea for you too…or would you prefer a Mimosa? Ameriscot is having a Mimosa drink and brought a cheese tray with French bread, assorted crackers, oatcakes, and some pate. Shalimar brought Canadian Blackberry pie and fudge. Enjoy.
 
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