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BLUE WIND

TRIBUTE TO GREGG ALLMAN

written by: TM DiSarro

@tmdisarro

South rising in a blaze

Of rock and blues

Jazz infused

Controlled chaos

July summer's haze

Filmore East 1971

Journey into Eden

And back again

Remembering the sound

So fine and so new

For it remembers you

Alive as a mystic serpent

Stretching into waves

Calling you to enter

With your tickets in hand

Inhibitions left outside

Stepping through the door

You ride a train with a blues heart

On tracks like veins twisting

Through battlefields and greenfields

The dead and the living

With flowers by the score

Picking up sounds along the way

As passengers

As voices

As Instruments

Melding memories

Against a backdrop of change

Pumping out a life force

And energy of moments

Spinning its tail through

Floodlights and mist

Leading all who follow

With ears open

And minds blown

Inside the venue

Auroras born of southern skies

Rain down colors

As magic and gentle madness

In the form of musicians

Center stage

Two drummers pump heart beats

Pounding out perfect syncopation

Razor lead guitars

As teeth from dragons

One cuts and bends

One grinds and slides

Across boundaries

Above and beyond

The space of conformity

Slicing through lines

Where rock becomes

Something new

And concepts of sound

Transcend the usual

While bass lines weave intricate

Patterns of perception

Drawing you into

The deeper things of the soul

As the Hammond organ

Calls the faithful to worship

In new ways

Feeding the hungry ones

Who get the message in the music

And finally that voice

Weathered and wonderful

Raspy and soulful

Piercing through a magnificent

Wall of sound

Taking us on a journey

Past

Present

And future

Cutting through the fog

Of nights

Of lights

Of hands held high

Now gone but not forgotten

Buried between the grooves

Of an LP record

Inside the digital

Blood drops of eternity

Timeless as the sound

Rising as the south

In the mind

Of a newborn

©2017 TM DiSarro/ MindScapesPublishing

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

From the collection: ILLUMICAT

Photography by Peter Yang