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| | From:  Zydha (Original Message) | Sent: 12/8/2008 2:07 PM |
Thirteen to Eighteen left her some doubt till college stepped in and helped her out. In hippy strapped sandals and drindled skirt with scarf around hair and a big baggy shirt, mind and her music ~ all right on track and acoustic guitar slung around her back. She ran with Bohemian as her fashioned troupe spending nights steeped in poetry and a Folk group high on the coke ~ of the ~ Cola kind, they'd sit in the sit-ins of the anti war kind and hoped against hope, that it ever would be a world making love ~ not war ~ that she'd see. Alas, time has passed and her wish was in vain, she still lives in a world filled with folk still in pain. (c) Zy Dec 2008 |
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| Couldn't find drindled in the dictionary,Zy,but having consulted my wife,I did find the word dirndl.[kind of dress imitating Alpine peasant costume.] Another one of the female mysteries revealed. You were probably folk singing during the Bob Dylan and Joan Baez heyday! I was recently listening to Bob Dylan on YouTube singing Don't Think Twice It's Alright,after reading the Walk On poem by Gordon,which I thought was of the same genre. For me, Bob Dylan had immaculate timing,a keen sense of words,most memorable melodies,and an incisive voice. I loved it when he rhymed knowed with road,in the above song. |
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Nice one, Zy ...is it good or bad that we no longer think we can change the world ?? |
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Well done Zy, When I was in my teens I didn't think of anything but having fun...you are one of a kind... Mariaxx |
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| | | From: Zydha | Sent: 12/9/2008 8:19 PM |
Aahhh, Maria, the sixties were full of fun and revolutionary music and all things new in fashion, but... I was far from alone, from school and college teens to millionaire film stars, people joined in the CND rebellion marches and sit-ins to turn the tide of nuclear armiments, you had it in the seventies for theVietnam war, didn't you, but they both came to pass, regardless, Zy |
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| | | From: Zydha | Sent: 12/9/2008 8:29 PM |
Hy, Jen, I think it was sad rather than simply bad that the sixties were such a wonderful decade and yet, all the demonstrations, all the protest marches, all the signs of disgust at the decision to develope such weapons went unheaded and fade into insignificance against what was developed after that; Age brings wisdom enough, Jen, that to keep one's own peace becomes of ultimate importance and the only space one really has any real influence over, too much is beyond our control, and yes, I think it is bad that things have gone that way, but good when one realises it has, Zy x |
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| | | From: Zydha | Sent: 12/9/2008 8:54 PM |
Here you go, Philip, it's in numerous entries in Google, a 'particular type' of 'skirt' these days, but in the sixties, a long floral print skirt favoured by many who did not take to the newly introduced 'denim jeans'. Swishy Skirts- Alia Malik-The Chicks-PHAT Chicks - Indiatimes Be it dresses or skirts, cut them high at the hem and drindle shape reigns ... Define your waistline to emphasize power. Tuck yourself in or cinch with a ...phatchicks.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2940307.cms - 30k - Cached - Similar pages Yes, Dylan and Baez were indeed the music of that time, Written in The Wind was and still is one of my favourites. Although the explosion of pop nudged them over a bit, they have lasted the decades for myself and many more, Zy |
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Excellent poem Zy, I could visualize it all... Sorry she is still in pain, it was probably ingrowing toenails from those sandals  |
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Too funny, I guess ingrown toe nails were prevalent then <wink> |
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A bitter-sweet write, Zy. But I had to smile at the image you painted! I think it's important to have tried. Gordon |
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| | | From: Zydha | Sent: 12/11/2008 6:28 AM |
Lol , Maria and Steve, personal pain in those days came from the 4 and 5 inch stilleto heels we sometimes wore with winkle picking toes, the first time around on the fashion scene...agony! Zy |
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| | | From: Zydha | Sent: 12/11/2008 6:36 AM |
Thanks, Gordon, yes, it was a strangely evolving time in the 60s... a time of great change in many aspects, and yes, I tried, as people did then to avert the horrors of nuclear war, quite the little protester, hence the title, how neive we were even then to the uselessness of it all, but we tried, Zy |
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Last thought for the evening... Uselessness? Who's to say what effect it had , Zy - after all, it didn't happen, did it? Maybe if all those naive protesters hadn't raised the awareness, people might have been more trigger happy with them? Maybe not - but - who can say? Butterfly wings...  Gordon |
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| | | From: Zydha | Sent: 12/12/2008 11:30 PM |
True, and your reply remindeded me of those nuclear protests which followed on long after mine, Gordon.... the women who protested by taking up residence in makeshift camps/accomodation/roughing it for years by Greenham Common, did actually succeed in having the American nuclear weapons removed from the south of England and certainly removed from the UK, so yes, uselessness did not truely apply to all efforts, Zy |
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