#NaPoWriMo #2025
THE FINAL PROMPT!
Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that also describes different times in which you’ve heard the same band or piece of music across your lifetime.
Happy writing!
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YESTERDAY - AN OLD FRIEND
I listened to the Beatles back in the sixties on vinyl.
'She Loves You', over and over on my Dansett record player,
Friends got together to dance to the songs of Lennon and McCartney.
We were young and innocent, wondering why 'The Man on the Hill',
Was standing perfectly still , the Beatles
went through their phases.
We went through the seventies, married, and had our children.
The poignant 'Yesterday' played on a cassete in home and car.
The words seemed to fit our lives in the synthetic pop eighties.
We cried on that December day John Lennon was murdered
In 2001 George Harrison lost his battle with lung cancer
'Yesterday' was now on a CD and playing everywhere.
The nineties passed in divorce after domestic violence.
In 1998 I lost my son to a heroin overdose.
We played his favourite band, Nirvana at his funeral.
'Yesterday',played in my head knowing all my troubles were here to stay.
In the noughties I sought therapy, to help me cope with life.
I listened to 'Yesterday' on the radio and shed a tear or two.
Poetry also became my therapy, making sense of a senseless world.
The years that followed saw us streaming music on our phones.
We listened to 'Yesterday', on demand, wherever we wanted to.
Then Covid hit and music and poetry filled my life.
Now in the 2020's " Yesterday' seems so far away.
Our world is full of wars, greed and power has run amok.
'Yesterday', remains an anthem for gentler times.
'Yesterday' is where it belongs, in the distant past.
Visited from a peaceful prospective, it plays in my head.
It is familiar, nostalgic and shares my life - an old friend.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025
*She Loves You, The Man on the Hill, and Yesterday are all written by Lennon and McCartney and sung by The Beatles*
VIXEN of VERSE 
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