{"id":133707,"date":"2023-09-02T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133707"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:45:46","slug":"a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words<\/strong><\/p>\n

Faded photographs of album covers flit across the television screen
\nAs songs from my past are harmonized by those I once crooned along with.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s The Hollies, singing about my brother not being heavy
\nAnd I\u2019m there, remembering Billy.<\/p>\n

Moments ago it was The Marmalade, singing \u201cReflections of My Mind\u201d
\nAs I recalled how I used to think the chorus said \u201cTake me back to my Momma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember Elton John\u2019s one about diamonds?
\nYeah, I thought he sang \u201cPut me in the sky with God\u201d as I\u2019d twirl \u2019round and around in the yard.<\/p>\n

America sang about needing someone like the flowers needed the rain
\nAnd I remembered one night playing Solitaire and murmuring \u201cI need you\u201d to my unrequited love.<\/p>\n

When a few moments ago Elvis sang about his suspicious mind,
\nI remembered a deejay once saying how he loved that song because it allowed him to take an extra long bathroom break when another chorus faded in to rile up the lovers again.<\/p>\n

Now Neil Diamond is singing \u201cPlay Me.\u201d
\nI took that one to heart–but got played instead.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s move on.<\/p>\n

Oh great: more Elvis, singing about that rain in Kentucky.
\nHow I used to yearn for someone to seek me out like that.<\/p>\n

Ahh, there\u2019s Carole King with songs from her Tapestry album
\nFor some reason that one makes me think about life as a kid in California.<\/p>\n

Each time I hear \u201cThe Sounds of Silence\u201d I remember the melancholy.
\nNo matter what is going on, I must stop what I am doing and pay due homage to that classic.<\/p>\n

The nearly maniacal laughter in The Guess Who\u2019s song makes me question my own madness.
\nAre you laughing at me now?<\/p>\n

Gordon, if you could read my mind, could you make sense of this?
\nThat was another favorite that takes me back to my life as a young one without a clue.<\/p>\n

And now we\u2019re to Nilsson and his heartbreaking ditty about not being able to live if living is without you.
\nThat one makes me think about you. You know who you are.<\/p>\n

All of these songs played since the start of this poem. Ironic, since they probably started off as poetry themselves. Songs worth a thousand words but narrowed down to a few couplings.<\/p>\n

A few lines that encompass my life–or at least a large part of it. Music: a word picture that we all hear in different ways, conflicting lights, and yet bringing us all together and making us see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Faded photographs of album covers flit across the television screen As songs from my past are harmonized by those I once crooned along with. There\u2019s The Hollies, singing about my brother not being heavy And I\u2019m there, remembering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[6044,282,791,6045,6046],"class_list":["post-133707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-elvis","tag-laughing","tag-pictures","tag-the-hollies","tag-the-sounds-of-silence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133738,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133707\/revisions\/133738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}