| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 9/4/2008 12:19:32 PM | Dear John,
I didn't get a chance to meet you here,
but I hope I meet you in heaven.
You always looked us in the eyes,
like you knew each one of us.
You stood up for what you felt was right,
I don't know how we would have done it
without you...
Dear John,
The songs you gave would not see the light,
but what you don't know is you saved my life.
Miss you John, just to let you know,
I didn't get a chance to meet you here,
but I hope I meet you in heaven.
Written by: Michelle Wind
October 1st, 1995 | |
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 9/4/2008 5:15:46 PM | John Lennon Still Lives
You stand in the big sky like a steel bird
You are the dream warrior
Flying through the surreal
Collecting tin cans, flowers
And old war photos
You swallow the blood of madness
Then scream-dive full tear-drop
Into war zone
Dropping poems like propaganda
On an enemy you now love
And understand
Then waddle like a penguin
Amongst the believers
That see through your eyes
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 10/2/2008 2:06:12 PM | | stood up for what was right my ass, he may have put on a good show and said all the right things, now dont get me wrong along with mccartney, there probally the best song writers of all time but lets get real, they were muscians, nothing more, nothing less, he talked about peace and love and all that good stuff, like i said he talked a great game but when it came down to peace and love for his oldest son, where was he? no where to be found, he only had his son julian over for a visit maybe 10 times between 1970 and 1980 when he died. when it came to his will he didnt leave julian much of anything besides a trust fund that was only half of what sean recieved so everything else when to yoko and sean. give me a break, he was a dead beat dad and never made things right with his oldest son "john charles julian lennon" | |
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 10/2/2008 3:00:58 PM | back up...ease up...so young and as always, so judgemental.... you have no idea ... no idea the forces that pull against a person, a parent, the demons, the psyche, his torments, his losses, his failures.... and we all have them...none of us is ever. ever. a perfect parent..... all genius is flawed, how else do they shine ever more brightly for what they were able to achieve?
step back. ease up. you so young, it must be so hard for you to even imagine how hard it is to go through a life time, when you aren't that old and won't be anytime soon- how can you have any idea how life twists and turns you, how time can push you into walls not of your making. he did not make that separation from his son all by himself, there was a mother who had some part in that.... you did not know the man. none of us did.
i was blessed to be in his presence for a whole 10 minutes, on an airport tarmac at 4:30 am at La Guardia airport, right before the Shea Stadium concert.... and to a silly, really inane 16 year old in a ridiculous looking dress, pig tails down to there....he was not Santa Claus, no, and he wasn't even a gracious host at that big party called Beatlemania all that very often...but he was witty, discerning and a mere human being who had the whole world pushing at him, shoving themselves in his face.... and for the most part, this man stood the test and kept it real. YOU know nothing of this man. I know 10 minutes of him, and that is more than you and YOU should never make such cheap comments you gleaned out of some Rolling Stone magazine article or heard off of some jealous dj's talk show..... I will not stand for it.
The Beatles were the greatest band that ever ever ever sang a song...and the media aint got a clue even today as to who these four young men truly truly were..... sadly there was much rancor between him and Cyn...but in the last years of his life, he was trying to build bridges with Julian.... and for that, i give him huge credit and huge respect. it is not easy being a parent at all, especially when you are thousands of miles of away, especially when you do not have primary say and custody..... you don't know what Cynthia might have been doing to make it even more impossible. Just back off. ease off.... you did not know this man. you just think you do.
by the light of the past i
remember a glow
not this halogen coldness
blued by today's lens
judgements and lies
distorted and skewed
weighed and re-weighed
yes, i remember the glow
imperfect, wavering
broken
against the brutal world | |
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 10/2/2008 3:54:37 PM | Thought this might be appropriate here
WOMAN.....by John Lennon
Woman I can hardly express
My mixed emotions at my thoughtlessness
After all Im forever in your debt
And woman I will try to express
My inner feelings and thankfulness
For showing me the meaning of success
Ooh, well, well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Ooh, well, well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Woman I know you understand
The little child inside of the man
Please remember my life is in your hands
And woman hold me close to your heart
However distant dont keep us apart
After all it is written in the stars
Ooh, well, well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Ooh, well, well
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Well
Woman please let me explain
I never meant to cause you sorrow or pain
So let me tell you again and again and again
I love you, yeah, yeah
Now and forever
I love you, yeah, yeah
Now and forever
I love you, yeah, yeah
Now and forever
I love you, yeah, yeah
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 10/2/2008 9:06:19 PM | John Lennon had an artist's spirit
with words of love and wisdom,the world to hear it
he sang of peace,of just being a man
never forceful,but took one stand
the timing of him was in no way hapinstance
he begged all that would listen,to give peace a chance
yes he was human and made some mistakes
but the one thing that got him was not checking for SNAKES
i grew up on his words,the gentleness of his soul
and now since he's been taken the worlds felt unwhole | |
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 10/5/2008 11:06:21 AM | Dear Mark,
I understand your anger. I get it. I myself was given up by my mother and father, and raised in the foster-care system, I would have been better off being raised by a pack of wolves, I was given the bare neccessities, and my father came to visit at brief intervals, and molested me. My real mom comitted suicide 4 years ago, they gave me nothing. John did the best he could, his mom left him and then got hit by a bus and died. He had no one, raised by his aunt and uncle who ostracised him. It is amazing that in his life he turned it around, and became a stay at home dad with Sean.
"Be not too hard,, for life is short, ,and nothing is given to man". (Joan Baez) | |
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 11/21/2008 4:40:39 PM | | The anniversary of John Lennon's death is coming up and I wanted this to be printed again so people will remember him and what he stood for. | |
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 11/21/2008 6:31:35 PM | | I just saw an imitation beatles group called 1964 and they are very good. On top of the great stuff that John did in the later years...the socially conscientous stuff, the early Beatles were the greatest group in history and there is not even a close second. Their early love songs are timeless. | |
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| John Lennon......
Posted: 11/21/2008 6:56:15 PM | This thread, for many reasons, brings tears to my eyes....
partly because I can see all points made
and wish no one to judge, as I always advise.....
When John Lennon was alive and the Beatles thrived
I was a teenager, young as I was,
and it was one of my older brothers who brought them into my life.....
So in listening to his playing their songs
over and over and over again
I could hear they were trying to right some wrongs
Then, in college I transferred to NYU
and it was there that I lived exactly three blocks over
from John Lennon and Yoko too
No, I never did meet them in person
or even see him walkin' the streets
but I was there the day he was shot....
The day so many of us went into shock
and dismay that the man who inspired us all
to really consider peace and not war,
the man who wrote one of the most
beautiful songs ever written....
the one who could really Imagine like no other
and then share it with so many millions, past, present and future.....
Oh no, we have no right to judge anyone
from our own projections onto them....
for it seems the Beatles were incredibly necessary for all
and the timelessness of the truths they sang
is obvious.....for it was truth then and it's truth now
I have few albums still in my life
but my original Beatles White Album
complete with those beautiful photos of each of them....
I will always have with me wherever I am....
along with my original All Things Must Pass album
by George Harrison.....
perhaps he sensed what would happen with John after all | |
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| John Lennon......
Posted: 11/21/2008 7:23:04 PM | AH OP, I had only about 5 minutes to read and your thread flooded me.
isn't it wonderful/odd that there is a gap in age/generational mindsets? I find myself struggling carefully with my words with my son recently....and I confess, incredible JOY when I feel he grasps the understanding some of us try to communicate about our history..."Imagine all the people..living for today...imagine theres no country...............nothing to kill or die for...and no religion too......"
imagine all the people living life in Peace...you may say I am a dreamer..but I am not the only one...
ahh the rest is HISTORY *smile.. | |
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| John Lennon......
Posted: 6/29/2009 8:51:26 PM | Dear John Part II
Dear John,
chewing your gum,
baking your bread
singing your songs
full in your head.
Skipping along in Central Park
you had no fear
even of the dark.
You loved real hard
A hard days night
you turned around
to sign your name
a shot rang out
you fell to the ground-
and whispered some words
to Yoko.
He killed you John
but did he know
we all died a little with you
on that cold stone ground.
Forget you John,
no not ever,
we will love you John
forever and ever. | |
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| John Lennon......
Posted: 6/30/2009 4:23:24 AM | this week a man of peace is on his annual fund-raising feat
visiting here from the war and diseased,
filled with hate, torn with greed, poor to the bone Zimbabwe
for seven years he has been coming here
travelling the country, healing profoundly,
sharing wisdom from Spirit with so many
when my community gathered the other eve
on the day of shock, one mentioned her sadness
over Michael Jackson's death
and Mandaza Kandemwa said
"do not grieve his passing....
he did what he came here to do
he gathered together the world"
uniting us through his song
and his life and his Spirit too
and so I pass this onto you
for I feel John and all the Beatles
did the same miraculous deed
they opened our hearts
and touched our soul
focusing us in our One'ness
they reached in and plucked our strings
and woke up our real compassion
reminding us that is our true action
"a living prayer" while they were here
we remember them
we remember John Lennon
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| To John Lennon for Yoko and Sean...
Posted: 6/30/2009 4:42:42 AM | | I'm a huge fan of John Lennon no matter what crap I read, I think the man was ahead of his time. He was a huge inspiration and I love his writings and his quotes. | |
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