Alabama Nights

Moonrise through the pines
immediately reunites me
with a former place and time

Vision deeply etched in memory
like the well-worn groove
of a favorite record album

Foothills of the Appalachians
where it is easy to succumb to nature
on those tranquil Alabama nights

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Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Quadrille #135: Shake that Poem Groove Thing, where De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo,) is hosting and instructed us to get in the groove and pen a quadrille including some form of the word groove.

Quadrille: A poetic form introduced at dVerse Poets Pub circa 2011. The rules for Quadrille: not including the title, a poem of exactly 44 words using the prompt word or its variant.

Quadrille Defined in a Quadrille

33 thoughts on “Alabama Nights”

  1. Clever use of the word
    “Vision deeply etched in memory
    like the well-worn groove
    of a favorite record album”
    and this is something I can so connect with. In my teen years I had a phonograph record player….bought 45s and the occasional album….the idea of the well worn groove on my favorite album is exactly as it was.

  2. Two things captured me here: the pines, of which grew all around my growing-up neighborhood and the well-worn groove of a favorite record album…had so many favorite records that got played and played. Nice memories for you too it seems.

    Gayle ~

    1. Yes, I think we all got pretty good at setting the needle down on our favorite track and wearing the groove a little deeper.

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