Category Music
Rules of Gravity
Rules of Gravity ~~~~~ She is as bright as all the stars. She treasures their light within Her bosom, their fires residing In her heart, soul to share their Radiance. Her sunlit brilliance So blinding that it illuminates My weak vision and my spirit In awe, gives my heart wings. I searched for her, unaware […]
It’s Bizarre
It’s Bizarre ~~~~~ Picking a guitar string, What to eat for dinner, There is a funny thing May be fatter, thinner. Like fingering or capo You grow shorter, then You change shape, oh. Not where you begin. Like this instrument, You stay who you are. New you is your intent. Inside not; it’s bizarre. ~~~~~ […]
Circle of Joy
Circle of Joy ~~~~~ Beat the log, the tree, Your head, looking For sound and rhythm. Imitate the birds, The beasts you love and fear. Find another sound To join voice and drum. Hold tight the vine. Pluck, drag the bone Across the surface. Find the one That seems to know How to shape the […]
Reach Inside
Reach Inside ~~~~~ The fiddle strings Reach inside me, Find a place they Have always known. As I see The tapping feet The nodding heads I think I’m with Others of which This could be said. It sings in my heart. It hums through My bones and skull, Sending forth other Times and faces. I […]
Never See
Never See ~~~~~ I marvel at the sounds and stories Words spin when they flow through me. How music helps me find these glories, Which, on my own, I might never see. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what […]
Simple Complexity ~ Complex Simplicity
Simple Complexity ~ Complex Simplicity ~~~~~ Why then must poetry’s meaning be couched, Like the imagined sea-sound heard in a shell? May fleeting beauty, convoluted truth be vouched, Said simply and offered crystal-clear from a well? Will it help if I use night to presage age or death, Flying birds or sunsets standing in for […]
Ad Infinitum
Ad Infinitum ~~~~~ I was sitting in a downtown cafe, looking for the words I wanted, listening to other people’s lives, fits and starts, dribs and drabs. O, what stories I could imagine. O, what stories could I imagine? of these people and their lives; the difference a single change, an opening, taken or missed, […]
Horse Behind the Cart
Horse Behind the Cart ~~~~~ If we made our lives open to reading, music, art, how would we choose, decide where we’d start? Never liked classical, like the Saturday cartoons, Hated rock, jazz, still, to Muzak you hum tunes? Presentation wrong? Nothing works in every age, not times around the sun, how each fills the […]
On the Doppler Shift
On the Doppler Shift ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment. ~~~~~ I hear the humming man from afar, as he approaches where we are. The humming grows as he draws nigh and, dwindles when he passes by. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Life’s Soundtrack
Life’s Soundtrack ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Are we surprised music triggers our emotions, hearing its ever-present backdrop to our world? As if our days are accompanied by a soundtrack. Perhaps, we no longer know how we should feel, how we should respond […]
