A nod, a wink, and a white rabbit pantomime.

A night crawl through the doors -

a mind's odyssey

where new horizons tip toe

along a crazy world -

shades of autumn

where another day, another yesterday

stays with me, together falling.

The razzmatazz of jazz not conforming,

our thoughts far too gone in kind, simmer

in synaptic entanglements introduced

to Hot Heels and Steam Heat,

the devil's dance by Madam Delight.

The blue sessions begin in flowing rhapsodies

surrounding the aura of Lady Lovesport

while the piano for lovers 

paused for feeling saxy.

Everyone boogied dazed and confused

to the blending of musical souls

entranced as the seductive sitar played.

Through a thunderbolt of reasoning, stoned

I saw clearing skies -

a mystic queen high on the funk

delving in LSD in an atmospheric

sex fusion of enchantment.

While one hears the wind

of the ceiling fan whisper in voices,

the gravitational forces pulls

the psychedelic invasion

splashing the cranial walls

of societies minds in glorious colours.

Where someone could have said.

" Who saw the moon slide down the rainbow?"

To which everyone replied.

" Yes! We did!"

And everyone believed.

But like all good dreams,

it was against the clock,

and in an instant

underneath the stars

it was all gone....

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i also thought of the Faces' album title..."a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"----

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks j I never knew that. Thanks for commenting. I was listening to a long version of white rabbit by Grace Slick and co.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i kind of surmised that the poem was inspired by that song...it is a classic...the poem is pretty damn good as well.
j.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like this perspective of the sixties...from a smarter perspective looking back...it wasn't all peace, love, dope in a good way...
things were twisted...but then the times were twisted and we had to bend along with them...
really insightful write, andrew.
j.

[NotUsinganymore]

Very strange poem about dreams. One time I dreamed of getting a thousand of dollars and I woke up and realized I was never given that money ever. It made me sad.

[Ted Kniffen]

Wow! I think I just had a flashback … let me drag out my bell bottoms, tie-dye shirt and snoot boots and we're off to score some reefer. One pill makes you smaller and one pill makes you tall … but the one your mother gives you …
Let's not chase that rabbit

Wonderfully done Andrew

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks Ted you got it in one with Grace Slick’s white rabbit.

[Patricia Wedel]

It can be like that in a dream... you have the secret to Jazz where melodies are songs that you know by heart ... a nightmare in colors that capture your imagination. truly, Pat

[andrew mitchell]

indeed pat the late sixties psychedelic era of music, what a blast!

[Patricia Wedel]

My introduction to Jazz was so romantic... on a date and I was enamored with the Guy
while listening to all the songs of My Fair Lady by a Jazz group of Instruments. I was Hooked. dearly, Pat