Good Ol' Dwight

[ScarletMornings]

this is a lot different poem than from what i usually write, but i was inspired by dwight yoakam, a u.s. country music star, just for those of you out of the u.s. or the u.s. country music world.


Dwight Yoakam kicks a beer bottle
singing about all the blame in the world
I slide in the rolling smoothness of his voice
God bless country music

His voice reminds me of my days
the tone of the same swelling deepness
so revered to my ears
so hated in my life
I'm sick of waiting to hit it big
watching everyone who already has
I'm just left behind, I guess

But Dwight croons on
funny how one of my favorite inspirations
can be unknown to those I'm writing to
I bet you’ve never even heard of him
I guess the world isn’t that small
too bad, I'd like to meet Dwight

So I sit here and try to tell you what I feel
the colors of my moods
inspired by a song, a voice, a word, a phrase
so many little things people do can make or break my day
but most of them I’ve never even met
I was never that good at telling my emotions
just stories of others'

So I’ll leave it to Dwight
good ol’ Dwight
and his fall-in-love-with-me blues voice
tell us all about the blame, cowboy
you say it better than I ever could

[lelandluver4eva]

i think that of course you're amazingly talented (anyone with half of a brain would know that) and this poem really does give me a more of a feel of who you are outside of writing, so bravo.

[ScarletMornings]

wow, thank you so much. i was a little nervous about this one. it's not at all my usual style. so thank you a whole bunch!

[lelandluver4eva]

i think its good that you took your writing a way you havent before.

[Ramona]

I like this poem. It's very original in that it's written about a person, but not without being all drooly and in-love-with-Orlando-Bloom-ish, you know? Like it's a poem about Dwight Yoakam (who I've actually heard of, "Streets of Bakersfield," anyone who gives my town some recognition is OK by me) but it's more about the ideas he inspires than about how tight his pants are (and, boy, are they tight.) i'm not sure if that made sense.

Ramona

[ScarletMornings]

actually it did. i appreciate it.