{"id":16,"date":"2016-10-05T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:04:18","slug":"flowers-of-the-wayside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/flowers-of-the-wayside\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers of the Wayside"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nFLOWERS OF THE WAYSIDE<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel November 1970 Coventry.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nAs I pass the streets lined with tears of unexpressed souls,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nRows of tins of compressed talents chained in their folds<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLines of ‘could\u2019ve been if I tried, but didn\u2019t pursue my goals<\/i>\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n
\nChains of the \u2018same as the day before and day before that<\/i>\u2019 plastic moulds<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBoxes of \u2018shun the new, it\u2019ll be our ruin, stick to the beaten path<\/i>\u2019 holes<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nChorus<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI just put my face to my hands<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nMy fear for to hide<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nThat I might yet become just another<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nFlower of the Wayside.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
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\nTheir bins are full of screwed up dreams from the morning of their youth<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd yes they still have their dreams in the straightjacket of their lives.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThey follow convention down the steps, in his drunken waltz<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo fall into the waters deep, to find they cannot swim, to find they cannot think.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThey\u2019re too busy not being busy trying to be themselves,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThey\u2019ve been hung up upon society allocated shelves.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nThey pay homage to the idle with numerals on his face<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd as his arms rotate, they start their diurnal chase<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMachines, I once thought, were extensions of man\u2019s arms<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut men have just become extensions of machines,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTurmoiling in their cogwheel confusion<\/span><\/div>\n

While I stage my independence \u2013 the water bearer\u2019s revolution.
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\n…………<\/span><\/span>
\n
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\nProbably the title Flowers of the Forest by Fairport Convention, influenced title<\/span><\/span><\/span> but not the lyric. About growing old and deserting your dreams and following convention to the letter.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n
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\nThis was published as a poem in my first chapbook The Escaped Poet in 1984 and various magazines.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Flowers of the Wayside by Trev Teasdel<\/div>\n

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FLOWERS OF THE WAYSIDE \u00a9Trev Teasdel November 1970 Coventry. As I pass the streets lined with tears of unexpressed souls, Rows of tins of compressed talents chained in their folds Lines of ‘could\u2019ve been if I tried, but didn\u2019t pursue … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}