Turntable relief, better than any pill, powder, brew.
Back when, as a child, I knew, as I dropped
the needle on Prokofiev, Moptops, Ricky Nelson.
Aural medicine that neutralized, alchemized toxins
ingested through all of my senses, leaving a wake
of distracted, healing waves.
I am today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Today I ask you to write a poem using the word turn or some word that includes turn.
Tao Talk 
I still love to listen to vinyl on a turntable, Lisa, so your quadrille hit the spot for me, ‘aural medicine’ indeed.
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Kim, most of my stuff is on CD or digital these days, but I still have some vinyl. Very glad to hear my Q hit the spot.
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healing with a spin – such eclectic aural medicine too
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Indeed, Laura, on the healing and the eclecticism. Not much that escapes my turntable :)
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Thanks for hosting, Lisa. They Byrds never get old in my play list!
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You are welcome, Dwight, my pleasure on hosting. I hear you on The Byrds, and I know those lyrics come from The Bible, which makes this song a double bonus good.
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Ha ha… yes, I have sung that song many times.
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“Aural medicine,” is such a strong and apt image! 🩷🩷
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Sanaa, it is the best medicine of all for me. Thank you <3
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Oh, I like this quadrille, Lisa. Very creative!!
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Groovy.🫰🏻
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Great Lisa – I went for the old vinyl too ‘Aural medicine’ indeed 🙌
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:) <3
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Li, this is a very sensory poem. Bravo!
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Nolcha, thank you.
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Love listening to their music. Bring back the happy memories and healing waves.
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Grace, glad you like listening to them.
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This is amazing! Way to make a prompt yours!
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Thanks so much, Sunshine (love your name) :)
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Ah…you have me smiling with memories of my teenage years. Sitting in my bedroom, door closed, playing 45s on my portable record player. I loved Ricky Nelson….and I was a member of Fabian’s fan club! Never was overly excited about Elvis. memories…..
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Thanks so much, Lillian, and happy it brought those memories back to you. I remember Ricky from the Ozzy & Harriet Show. Such a cutie! Have you seen his sons, also musicians, The Nelsons? Even cuter! Chuckling at the Fabian’s Fan Club.
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Still does….always will. Thanks.
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<3
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Cannot ever disagree with music, especially from our youth, as powerful medicine. Great one!
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Absolutely, Susan. Thanks!
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How I loved my little phonograph! Great quad, Lisa.
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Nancy, I know you did, as much as you love music. Thank you very much.
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Very welcome, Lisa.
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Ah yes, it was such a thrill!
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Love your quad Lisa ☺️💕 Sometimes the best medicine. Music can wrap you in love, take you away, make you cry and bring you joy.
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<3
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You brought me back, Lisa. My LP’s were a healing escape for me, too. Nicely spun ;-)
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Good to know, Jennifer <3
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Lisa, this feels like a deeply personal meditation—there’s something timeless and grounding in the way you trace healing through sound. I really connect with the idea of music as medicine.
~David
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Thanks much for reading and your comment. It’s spot on. I’m sure there are studies that prove it. Laughter and music are both medicine.
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Aural medicine indeed. It brings me back to the angst of my late teens–Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, Simon & Garfunkle. . .
Our older child bought a turntable a year or two ago.
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Merril, I really don’t know how any teenager can survive those years without music. Seriously!
Vinyl is surging. You can’t beat the sound.
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I suppose though it’s not always an option in many places in the world.
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Makes me wonder how they cope in such places.
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A great prompt and a great poem Li! Some American visitors brought us a box set of classical piano music “recorded” on a special player piano which reproduced the pianist’s very intonation and speed and the set included Prokofiev as well as Gershwin playing Rhapsody in Blue – I still listen occasionally…
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Cool, Andrew on the player piano reel. There is a place some hours north of here, in Traverse City, that is a museum for all kinds of stuff like that. The Prokofiev was Peter and the Wolf, on one of the first albums I listened to as a kid.
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Lovely
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Sadje, thank you <3
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You’re most welcome
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I listened to my sister’s LPs at first. a lot of Moody Blues. Then I started buying my own – Pink Floyd, the Cars, the Who, the Ramones. Thanks for the drive down memory lane ~
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Happy to get you on that road and thank you for sharing your journey with music. Your sister had/has good taste and she got you started in the right direction.
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What a great response to the prompt! I loved this.
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V, so happy you enjoyed it :)
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Got to lap top and brought it back…thought ‘d lost it….aural medicine is exactly it….very powerful…probably could do without much else but not tunes…like the style of that poetry.
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Ain, happy you got to the lap top. Thanks much.
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Love those healing waves!
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I hear you and know you are a big music lover also.
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Yeah. And you had to take your time, pick an album out of the stack, go down rabbit holes as you grooved on the cover art and liner notes. Had to handle the record carefully, no fingerprinting. Easy with the needle! A little scratchy? Naw, that’s the right sound.
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D, it is clear you’re one of us audiophiles. Yes! on cover art and liner notes. I stared at that Beatles album cover and was convinced one of them was missing a finger. lmao! And Yes! on “the right sound.”
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Ah yes! Been spinning those 78s ~ forever it seems, from little kid songs to teeny-bopper songs, jazz, classical … you name it. Your poem in just 44 words “speaks” volumes. A great challenge!
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Helen I’m geeked you are still spinning 78s! My grandparents had some but I have no idea where they are now. Glad you liked the poem <3
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Oh, yeah!!!
“as I droppedthe needle on Prokofiev, Moptops, Ricky Nelson.Aural medicine”
Aural medicine, indeed! The elixir for teens everywhere, and yet, is it that different when you’re older? Boston, The Cars. The Police and Tom Petty still bring me to a place of restful quietude, based 100% in memories.
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Kim, glad you liked that line. It begins somewhere, be it childhood, teenhood, or adulthood, and it continues. I like all of the bands you mention and have cruised, danced, or sung along to each one of them at one time or another. “restful quietude” is a great descriptor.
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Music does have the most amazing effect on people. You’ve captured it beautifully.
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Thanks very much, Robbie <3
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My pleasure
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I sold 95% of my vinyl long ago but still have a good sized CD collection. Although I’m fond of those teenage years listening to vinyl for hours on end I don’t think that they can be recreated. I struggle to even listen through full albums most of the time now.
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Shaun, I’m saddened to hear you struggle to listen through full albums. My son’s music collection is all digital and I think he usually buys them song at a time.
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I have a huge digital collection that I leave playing at random so that when I turn on the amplifier it recreates the idea of turning on the radio.
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That sounds cool.
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There is just something about vinyl, perhaps a tactile memory from the past, or does the music just sound better?
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All of the above :)
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Right!
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Great poem, Lisa! I used to love listening to vinyls!
Yvette M Calleiro :-)
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
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Thanks very much. I’m glad you have that memory.
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I still have a turntable and a little vinyl, such fun. I do agree with your experience of finding relief, music is still my balm.
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<3
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