IGWRT's - Let's Do the Time Warp "Carnegie Hall, April 23, 1961"

Carnegie Hall, April 23, 1961

The whole world smiled,
fell in love in 1961.

I've listened since I was
five, countless times,
as she went to their heads
even forgot the "gol darn words",

she intoxicated, 
made people care.

How long has this dream
of mine been going on,
seated in Carnegie's front row,
Judy's garland voice wrapping
about me, reverberating?

Unlike my 33 LP, voice stuttering,
scratched from overuse...

Transported, I'd breath in
perfect harmony, a melodic rhapsody
sending my heart reeling

and I'd SING! when she invited
the crowd along,
and she'd see me crying,

Swanee River swaying this fan
with a memory of a lifetime.

by Margaret Bednar, April 8, 2013

Thanks to Fireblossom (and forgive me it's not 1958) for the opportunity for me to indulge myself.  This is for "Imaginary Garden with Real Toads is "Let's Do the Time Warp".  Obviously, Judy Garland was a huge performer in the 1950's, so I hope I squeak under the wire with this one.

Her album "Judy Garland, Live at Carnegie Hall" has never been out of print!

This is a bit late as this prompt was offered last Tuesday while I was enjoying Charleston SC.

IGWRT's Fireblossom Free Verse "True Vogue"

True Vogue

Designer trends,

make a woman

or so they say

insecurities, fears,

loneliness

hidden

until a gentle touch

unbuttons

frees a poetic soul

pretense 

flung aside

love her only accessory.

by Margaret Bednar, February 16, 2013

First of all, I want to share these drawings with you... they are my daughter's from this year, her senior year in high school.  She has been accepted into all three colleges she applied to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Kansas City Art Institute, and the University of North Carolina School of Art.

My daughter's art blog is:  Artistic Adventures

This poem is written for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Fireblossom Free Verse.  For an excellent description check out the link.  She did an excellent job of describing what it is... and my attempt is just that... an attempt.

IGWRT's - Get Listed "2013"

2013

New Year's innocence blossoms pink,
cradled in mornings golden light,
morning's tea inhaled, as beneath my fingers
frayed diary and bitter words unspool,
replaced with crisp, clean pages,
silvery slanted scrawl declaring 2013
a year of "Endless Rejuvenation".

by Margaret  Bednar, January 3, 2013

This is for Imaginary Garden with Real Toad's "Get Listed"  Thanks to Fireblossom, we were given a list of words and very "loosey goosey" rules (we all know she is a rule breaker :)   I used eight words.  This is really a challenge that I find quite hard... this short little ditty took me all day - lots of erasing and  quite a few not-so-nice words.  ;P