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Something Good

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Something Good

 

I hear you...

Your coruscating, beautiful

Catholic car-crash,

crash-course dance

In camp melodic drama

and wide-eyed trance,

"How I move,

How you move me..."

 

Hammer horror

met groomed Truffaut

and in your glam-rag trousseau

My bride

wore scorpion-black,

Spinning in the then and now

A moment caught us

too raw to look back.

 

We rose from walking 

separate sleep,

And dared to dream

beyond crash of plates

or reality's screams,

We're running up that hill,

You won't be unhappy...

It's you and me,

never more to roam,

I'm all yours, Babooshka,

It's me,

I've come home.

 

And I'm here again,

The man with the smile

in his eyes.

And after

Cloudbusting

as I watch steam rise

from my rain-sodden clothes

in yet another

Pennine pub,

I ponder the rugged,

wet-booted miles

That brought us

through our times of trial.

 

At the height of our wuthering

did we still know the score,

Know somehow

there just had to be more?

 

Exposed to our elements

we're bare 

to the core,

Your melody's magnet

enchants evermore:

 

All yours, all yours,

all yours

 

All yours.

 

 

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Comments

Frances Macaulay Forde

Sat 2nd Jun 2018 03:19

Yes, I got the Sound of Music visuals then switched abruptly when you mentioned 'that hill' to Babushka.
A clever poem which demonstrated just how effective song memories interpolate my readings of poems - which of course, is your particular skill.
Thanks, Chris, I enjoyed the memories, the romance, the visuals and the songs tremendously.

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Chris Bainbridge

Fri 1st Jun 2018 14:33

Thanks for very kind comments, and anecdote. I seem to have spent an inordinate amount of my life trudging around the South Pennines in various degrees of precipitation...starting as a teen in the mid 1970s...little wonder I can't get on t' moors without Katy B springing to mind.

Other than the lyric refs, I think there is some reference to the "significant others" of every major relationship I have had over the last 40 years. But then only I (or they) would get that I suppose!

Thanks again!

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Graham Sherwood

Fri 1st Jun 2018 10:35

Great anecdote Brian (saw what you did there)!

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Fri 1st Jun 2018 10:28

I worked for EMI Records in the 70s. Kate Bush was brought into our morning management meeting to meet the people responsible for the success of Wuthering Heights (apart from Kate herself of course!). We all stood up. She was totally embarrassed, went bright red, and mumbled something about not standing on ceremony. She stayed and chatted for 10 minutes. Shy, but extremely charming. It gave us a real kick inside.

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Graham Sherwood

Fri 1st Jun 2018 10:25

Sorry that doesn’t sound right does it! I meant the piece is charming, even if one doesn’t get the song lyric references. I’ll get my coat.....or should I just say

.........wow wow wow wow woooooow! Unbelievable!

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Graham Sherwood

Fri 1st Jun 2018 10:06

Kate B would be proud!

Apart from the lyric references this is a charming piece.

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