Arco (TN)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A Highway to Hell - Remember this Music? - September 16, 2014

We have a new challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai - "Carpe Diem's Remember This Music?" :


Here's the explanation given by Chèvrefeuille:

The goal is to write a four (4) stanza renga inspired on the song you have chosen yourself. You don't need to use this song I shared ... you can take your own song which brings sweet (or sad) memories to you to write that four stanza renga .... So I have to change my haiku above into a four stanza renga ... let me try ...


the last waltz -
I saw her again after a while
my first love

her blond hair waves in the wind
looks like golden sunlight

in the first daylight
as I awake next to her
she looks so beautiful

"take this waltz", she whispers in my ear
and cuddles her naked body to mine
© Chèvrefeuille

I learnt to drive rather late in life ... in fact I got my license only 6 years ago.  I was always very nervous and panicy when I had to do the practicle driving lessons ... theory was never a problem. One of my instructors, a particularly sensitive person named Ricky, decided that if we put some music on I'd probably relax ... I thought he was right and I expected something dreamy, but this is one of the pieces that he put on (infact from then on we only used rock music to drive with) ... and I rocked through the lessons without a bit of anxiety.   So my song doesn't bring sweet or sad memories but a feeling of happiness thanks to having overcome a difficult challenge and anxiety. 

 ;-)

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anxiety grows
on every curve of the road
gears slip - car stalls

heart pounding - head spinning
stuck on a tight curve to hell

beat of the music
come - face this challenge - head on
song of courage

that highway to hell becomes
a rock road through paradise

©  G.s.k. '14






6 comments:

  1. great success story
    nicely done

    cheers
    JzB

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    1. thanks ... it was in the end a success ... in Italy you have to learn to drive with a stick-shift ... I just don't coordinate well, but I have an automatic now :-)

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  2. Never in a million years would I have considered "Highway to Hell" a "comforting" song for learning how to drive! But ya never know! Loved your story!

    But ... now that I listen to the song ... well, why not?

    BTW -- our Driver's Ed instructor in high school was a very "openly devout" Christian who used to play gospel on the radio when we were learning to drive. We joked (behind his back) that he wanted to be ready - just in case one of us killed him with our driving!!!!

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    1. I think I really would not have like hyms while learning to drive. The problem was that here you have to learn to drive using a stick-shift (manual gears) but I couldn't co-ordinate the pedals and the changing of the gears and would keep stalling the car ... the more it stalled the more anxious I'd become. When I did my test, no music was allowed and I nearly didn't pass. I now have an automatic.

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    2. Ugh. Hubby gave up trying to teach me how to drive a stick-shift. It was *that* bad! But .... I guess it's a good thing that you have to learn to drive a stick-shift over there -- you're prepared, no matter what. (But for folks like me, it would mean taking the test over and over again!)

      And yes. Hymns during driver's ed is not fun. At all.

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    3. One of the reasons I was so anxious .. I'd already had the "hubby" will teach you experience too ... and I did risk having to take the test a second time ... the examiner at one point said: "Signora, you have a "nervous drive" at which point I told him that I had an automatic waiting for me and that the manual made me nervouse ... he went on to ask me where I was from (foreighn accent) and once I said I was American ... he just replied "Ah yes, all Americans use automatics, I understand now!" as thought it was a sort of DNA thing and passed me. I've driven with a manual twice since then, and everytime something goes wrong with my car and my husband threatens to buy a manual my heart sinks.

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harmonious words ... like crystal clear water ... pure ectasy

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