It's that kind of bar. fear would keep you away. but, you always wished you had gone.


Lowcountry Swing

Old Saloon no windows up front
open deck in back
Tinned roof cypress planks
Emerald waving Salt Marsh below
in a burnt orange sunset
Rolling to evening velvet black
Distant lights and fire flys

Large women high ragged cutoffs
Teased hair lace camisoles
Thick waisted mascaraded up
Barefoot high busted

Badass roughnecks stained jeans boots
T shirts big belts big smiles
Boat men in worn dockside whites
Unshaven roudy laughing

Folks dancin dirty and talkin trash

Old chairs and tables mismatched
Christmas lights in August
Scented by salt marsh at low tide
Kareoki machine smokin
Cool tunes and hot mikes

Willy Nelson Frank Sinatra
Vince Gill Dionne Warwick
Sung with lust and passion
Off key voiced without regard or care
Quenched by Miller Bud and bourbon

It's Friday night the weeks been long
Time to let it all hang down
Low Country Swing in the
Carolinas salt marsh
Evenin Moonlight



Poetry by josephus The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2016-08-27 at 17:36

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one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
I love this. I read it yesterday, and it was bringing something to mind, a memory or a song, but I can't reach it. It's hugely descriptive, and you took me to place I've either been or imagined, maybe a little rough and tumble for me. Maybe not.
2016-08-28


Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
You paint a wonderful picture. I miss the feeling of Friday afternoons. It was something to look forward to. You have not lost you flair for setting great scenes :)
2016-08-28


Kathy Lockhart
I'm loving everything about this! I can even feel the slight movement under my feet as I imagine it's opened deck moves with the movement of the water. (my own interpretation from my own experiences of course) But, isn't that exactly what great writing is suppose to spark in us?
Your attention to detail is what brings everything alive and excites and entices all the senses! I would say this is a great painting, but it moves, tastes, and sounds. By any means, it is a much appreciated and a delightful experience in a work of poetic art. :) kathy
2016-08-27