PAD Chapbook Challenge Day 16: A Tribute to John

So, I'm finally caught up on the blog. Today's prompt from Poetic Asides was to write a poem with the title "Free ______". I couldn't stop thinking about the great song and amazing video that the surviving Beatles did for their Anthology 1 collection, using an old demo tape that John Lennnon made in 1977.  The poem is based on that, with the images of the video as further inspiration.

Free as a Bird

"...it's the next best thing to be..."

                                - John Lennon

oh, how you can soar now

over the Liverpool rooftops

over your mates, still tramping

the worn-down streets

through the grime and fog

of the city

oh, how you miss her

but she gave them your song

on a tape, and they took it

into their hearts and brought

it out again with harmonies

and his weeping guitar

oh, how you can hear it

wafting through the trees

while you rise above them all

on an updraft to clouds

and if you could you'd say

well done, lads, well done