Monday, July 12, 2021

JUKE BOX DAYS

 Quadrille  #131   Welcome to Brian Miller who invites us to write a quadrtille of exacty 44 words using the word JUKE.  Ah, memories!!


Well now, isn’t that a fluke
That our quadrille word is juke
Ah, let me count the ways         
                        
A nickel in the juke box
Saddle shoes and bobby sox
                            Those were the school days                           

Juke joints and dancing
Careless romancing
Cigarettes and smoky haze 



28 comments:

  1. Those were the days- a nickel in the jukebox!

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  2. Those last lines really made me think even more than the music all the time that has passed... now when even in the worst joint smoking is forbidden-

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  3. a blend of innocence and well perhaps not in that last stanza...a bit of carefree youth once the shoes are kicked off...

    brian miller

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  4. All of it, excepting the cigs, I lived with you from bobby soxs and the saddle shoes to poodle skirts with starched crinolines. We were so darned cool.

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  5. This is absolutely delightful!💝

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  6. Those could be my feet, minus the watch. And I remember the sock hops where the shoes got piled at the side of they high school gym floor and we twirled and danced, and if we were lucky, got to slow dance with the "boy or our dreams"....and then back home....my guess is my mom would sigh, throw those socks in with my dad's white undershirts and boxer shorts and bleach them back to their wearable white. Oh the memories!

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  7. I really like how you manage to bring the scene and the time alive with just such few words. Very nicely done

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  8. Fun trip down memory lane and I love the image you chose to go with your quadrille, Beverly.

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  9. Ah, I remember saddle shoes and bobby socks, though I didnt own either. I remember "sock hops" too. How I loved to dance back then!

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  10. Love the images you bring up from another time. Beautifully penned! :)

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  11. Took you back, didnt it. Nice one

    Much💜love

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  12. Nice conjuring, Beverly. Cranks the memory volume UP! Thanks.

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  13. Yes, those were the good old days. Love the carefree youthful voice here Bev. Thanks for joining us.

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  14. Nostalgic vibe, Bev...way cool!

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  15. You describe the time like you lived it! Ha ha... I guess you/we did!
    Well done... and Elvis with his blue suede shoes!!
    Dwight

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  16. These things were a bit before my time, but I can reel the nostalgia in your words. Nicely done.

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  17. It sounds like it was a fun time in your life.

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  18. It sounds so idyllic and innocent - and fun!

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  19. good memories are always good to share

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  20. I heard the ring of tunes from long ago as I read your fine little poem

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  21. It would be amazing to go back in time to experience this era, since I missed it by a bit, but then again....I think you just took me there!

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  22. Yes, those were the days Bev! Sock hops and drop tops at the drive in — with some innocent sin… ;)

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  23. Juke joints and dancing
    Careless romancing
    Cigarettes and smoky haze

    Lovely close Bev! Gone are the school days of innocence and fun. Thanks for the memory!

    Hank

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  24. I really enjoyed this - the atmosphere it creates and the way it reads so well with the last lines rhyming in your triplets.

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  25. Sorry Bev, Didn't mean to leave above comment anonymously.

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  26. You know, this really feels like you actually experienced it, Bev, which I know you did... you really conveyed a real lived experience perfectly!

    Yours,
    David

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