A Rock Music History

Alternative and Metal
Musical relatives under
The Rock family.

Great grandfather Blues
The common ancestor
That crossed the pond.

Bluegrass and Folk
Several times removed uncles—
Same Celtic origins.

Summer’s Natural Music Festival

Cicadas’ low hum
Crows, cardinals: the chorus
Summer’s festival.

Mixed media
A music and sculpture piece
War sounds through the ages.

Hard plastic grabbing
Between forefinger and thumb.
Willing to relax,
Vice grip clamping down harder.

Clenched picking hand
Strumming sweet discordant noise
Head bobbing in time.

Nature’s orchestra
Playing no-time signature

Stale heat with no wind
Vocal choir fades, returns.

Mechanical hum
Workhorses drive by;

A roaring lion
Speeding along some journey.

Machines and nature
Answer each other’s questions

While I ponder
Nature’s reality.

Dissonant echoes
As chords progress through the song
Hair flies as head bobs.