Day 8 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - a Poem - Days Past

     [Adi's - our Beagle dog, RIP - last Teddy Bear] 

 

      Like it Was 
I. 

"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Radios broadcast all our ilk
Play a song tell the news
But then there's a commercial 
And to beat it all Gossip Day
That's when the ilk comes out

Girls swing high boys they come to play
And spilled milk makes one pout

II. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
The songs were great Rock had begun
There's Elvis and the Beatles 
Bands and singers Favorites and new tunes 
Dare we dance under park trees
Like it was park your bike find your date 

Listen to the songs, all was free 
Music filled the parks, ZZ Top down at the lake 

III. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Sing along clap our hands stomp our feet 
Gather in bunches chat rooms on the grass 
Darkness wins, time for the poems 
To the coffee houses we poured 
Recite our latest work or read from Poe 

Sitting around the rooms elbows merge
Bottles out around the room wine would flow 

IV. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Like all things they must come to end 
Empties to the corner, time for stars 
Fill the terraces, balconies call 
Houston's loading docks by dozens emptied for us 
Drugs were few save them for NYC *

Yes don't forget mosquito spray 
That's the way it was 1970 

* Notes:  
 - A part of the final line of my mother's lecture on my smoking the Canibus tops which grew up wild on our farm.  "... besides the good stuff is smoked in New York City."  I have never smoked that particular weed or "the good stuff."  Not exactly sure why that didn't happen. 
 - Some of this I did.  You might know or imagine how much.
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden  at   https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 .  
 - Go there where other's Poetry Writings are linked.  If we follow Kerry's daily oldie picks there's a schedule.  
 - For today it was here with Sanaa Rizvi  at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/04/poems-in-april-l-arora.html?m=1 where she introduced a new form. 
 - "The A L' Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca consists of eight lined stanzas. The rhyme scheme is a, b, c, d, e, f, g, f with no syllable count per line and the minimum length for the poem is 4 stanzas with no maximum length stipulation."

 - I am also linked to NaPoWriMo Day 8 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-7/ where their prompt was to use a line from another's work as the beginning line ours took off from there.
 - My line, "Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" is from a poem by Lisa Jarnot's work which she also copied her first line from a poem by Frank Lima, "And how terrific it is to write a radio poem"

(BY LISA JARNOT )
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51833/poem-beginning-with-a-line-by-frank-lima

 - Please comment how I have done, merging the two keeping a theme,  writing it consumed a little more than a short time.  So said I'm going back AFTER posting to correct typos and fix any wrong tense verbs.