Category Music
Intent Ion
Minuscule beyond imagining Cation meets anion Sudden explosion Screaming outward All directions, growing Spinning, spiraling into A being vast Beyond comprehension Thirteen point eight billion Years alive, expanding Encompassing life Teaching, learning Amazing, baffling Inexorable Examining from within Delving diligently Piecing together A totality puzzle No sample image Unrecognizable wreckage Ruins or futures Concepts, thoughts, […]
Love
You have always given me more than mere love Laughter and music, and the occasional shove You have helped me to grow, relearn how to cry You have helped me to sometimes not ask why You have been so loyal and steadfast; my rock You were forged in love, the only key to my lock […]
Please Tell Them
Genesis of Silliness Too many years ago for me to actually remember when, At a party I was attending, I saw a message written on a board near the kitchen door. I thought about how it would sound set to music, and even developed a chorus I sometimes sing in my head. It’s been around […]
What We Always Know
When I think about beauty, I confess What makes me happy looks the best Bright colors, harmony, truth or jest Although I also like much of the rest Think minor chords as well as tragedy May impart more truth than reality We survive tempest to feel tranquility It’s all just on or off, to be […]
Without Exception
Minds, when open like a blooming flower Pollinated by ideas each and every hour Open eyes can only see but not perceive Closed minds neither, unable to receive Pen marries paper, sparks a new flame Flame marries taper, fire briefly tamed Bow caresses strings, tender as true love Ethereal music brings down from above Brush […]
Today
Today I stopped for coffee, don’t we all Those of us, at least, who enjoy the taste It‘s not even merely caffeine’s siren call Just to sit, think, to savor time to waste I listen to nearby folk talk and I wonder How it is that all of us are now right here Sometimes I […]
String Theory
Oh what a wonderful word and thing is string All the names we call it and the ways we use it Thread-woven cloth on the seat where you sit? Or long hairs on a bow, so a cello’s strings sing Do I hear you mutter or proclaim hemp or jute The ball of yarn your […]
Acts of Life
I’m tightrope walking on razor wire Dancing up there, above a pit of fire On one side darkness hides mystery A secret hidden from myself, a plea While half anything is not complete On no off, out no in, note but no beat Unknown frightening till in the light Yet then we’ll know if we […]
What We Always Knew
What We Always Knew “How can I move forward, when I don’t know which way I’m facing?” John Lennon These words, so true Set my heart racing With all I’ve learned Know how to do and Cool and useful stuff I can make, why never Have I felt comfortable With life, or even the Direction […]
Telling Tales
While at a choral concert A men’s acapella chorus Singing complex songs Based upon the poetry The prose of Shakespeare I forgot the world’s woe All of my own problems Ranged voices in ensemble Deep bass to counter-tenor Telling all our own stories Simply, completely, clearly So we all might understand How we shared […]
