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Monday, November 24, 2014

Again Gone Lost - with audio

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I am again
What I was once then
A meandering vine,
A Bedouin
Wandering through
From place to place
Not belonging
In any one space
Like a tumble weed
Blown along
In a black and white
Cowboy song
Long goes the way
But so short the occasion
A shepherd, not brave,
Yet sometime brazen
Having failed to speak
And then too much
A wayward boy
Again gone lost
Past and future
Ripped asunder
Gives the thoughtful
Soul to wonder
Life unreconciled
Strewn about
Synthesized in dreams
Of the heart


Friday, November 21, 2014

Blah Blah Blah - with audio

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Blah Blah Blah turns the clock
Blah Blah Blah crows the cock

Lie, lie, lie all the more
A sea of hands toil and sell

In the soul
Tolls the bell

What the truth is
Who can tell

Ask the King o'r your head
When you lay thee down to bed

Government meetings
Solicitor pawns

Brokered beginnings
A new day dawns

Enforcers ride the tide
Money, fear, power, pride

Keep the sheep
Like shepherd dogs

From wandering down
Forbidden roads

Dumbfounded, downtrodden
Lowly, oppressed

Keep your heads down
The magicians know best

Scramble now, no not to rest
Please the parents in the nest

High above
In gilded Towers

Hoping below
For candied showers

Try to run
While they take and take

In this life
No escape

Hope then on
Kingdom come

Trembling those
Who hold the gun

There the dawn
Of Freedom's Sun

Birthing out eternity
Giving Death to tyranny

Bitterness gone,
Grapes trampled down

The fig tree blossoms,
Praises resound

Pour out now from the vine
A bouquet of sweetest wine

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Bearing with the Bard ( for Pat) - with audio

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The bear came to my table
Strong and able
Telling of the field and meadow 
All with great longing he 
Wanting company and tea
a very sociable fellow

He drank my wine
Ate my loaf in time
Whilst visiting for the day 
Wanting to play an affable host
and turning white as a ghost
I invited him to stay

He taught me how to hunt and fish
For berries in the chocolate ice cream dish
He waxed philosophical
Then lectured on earth and religion
Making points to man with precision
Of saints, and Shakespeare metaphysical

Though gruff and snorting
With fearful cavorting
He meant no harm you see 
By and by as hours past 
Making all clear at last
We learned of his history

None dared move him from his place
As in the several hours space
He licked his paws and all plates clean
Til off to bed we crept
Above the angels laughed and wept
Watching down upon the scene

When came thereafter the morning dawn
There he was upon our lawn
He quoted me his poetry
But my ears they could not hear
Then came upon me a kind of fear
My mind bewildered at the symmetry

I realized then that by some magic spell
While stumbling into the camp of day
As if still in the night of forest play
For reason that no one could tell
Sitting quizzical on me his wide eyes stared
That grizzly bruin once so terrible, had been made a bard

While I uncivilized, held others at bay
My Dragons breath, and claws bid them pray 
A grumpy growl said, not now, don't care
There found in me, my heart and eyes
By some twist of fate to my surprise
This Nick Bottom, who thought himself so wise,
Had in the night changed places so that he was now the bear.

epilogue: serves to make one take note of bearings and moorings;
Contemplating proclivities on the high seas of humanities' knees.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Banjo Song - with audio

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A. Carry me away by and by
Through the trees on the breeze way up high
Lay me deep down in love by the Grand Canyon river 
so that I might rise with the doves

A. O little bird, o tiny bird
Darting in and out of blossoms like a bee
Like a rainbow cross the sky, as you buzz to and fro, 
Humming songs that set the lovers heart free

B. In the eyes of a child, saw a lovin pure heart
It gave me joy, it gave me joy
Watch em run all about, hear em scream hear em shout
Fair blessed goodness is each girl and boy


A. So, Cast me off, Cast me off now and then
Just like Jonah and the sea faring men
Send me far below in the belly of the whale,
spit me up on dry land once again

A. Looking up at your face in the dome of night
Moon and Stars swimming in the deep and wide
I get dizzy as the wind spins this old world around
Wheel in wheel beneath His majesty on high

B. In the meadow stands a man and a wife
With the flowers, full of love and the strife of life
Cast your cares upon Him, the bright morning star
So that the little children might know peace.

A. O' Catch me up, catch me up, take me away
In the Heavenly Host's eternal day
Like Enoch and Elijah in a chariot of flame
Bowing low before Jerusalem's King

B. Sky below and Sea above
Curling wind playing in the sun's face of love
There's a secret rarely told, what gives life to a soul
Warmth, joy and laughter in a well-lit home

A. Lay me down, lay me down, down to rest
Let the tombstone read: he did his best
To humbly care for those on earth
While givin praise to the One above
Please raise him up in the Savior's love

A. Carry me away by and by
Through the trees on the breeze way up high
Lay me deep down in love by grand canyon river 
so that I might rise with the doves