Tired - with audio

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I’m tired
Tired of the heat
Tired
Need an ice cold treat
Tired
I’m tired and I’m beat

Tripping through my world
Angry at all who I meet

Tired
I need to retreat
Tired
Speaking thoughts, not discrete
Tired
Can’t walk on my feet

Falling on the curb
Face in the concrete

Tired
I’m announcing defeat
Tired
Hiding under the sheet
Tired
And my work’s not complete

Tumbling down the stairs
Right out into the street

What can I say
What shall I speak

Please just excuse me
Friend I’m feeling weak

Too tired to respect you
So tired, just had to repeat

Please let me find a cool night
So I can lay in some sleep

Fret Not Little Bird - with audio

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FRET NOT LITTLE BIRD

Fret not little bird and hear the true word,

Please listen to what I shall tell

That God is in the heavens and we are on the earth

And all will be well in the dell

Trust in the one who made the earth and sun,

With the seeds, the trees, and the fruit

With a purpose, we suppose, for the bee and the rose,

For you and your lovely recruit

Fear not pretty one, dry your tears in the sun,

Fly on where true love doth compel

Join those in the field, a blossomed little world,

Where the sky rests upon the tel

Swell up with song for the light doth shine strong

Clear, the way above, wide and blue

With sweet blessings falling in the breezes that come a calling,

Bringing flight to me and to you.

dedicated to the nini kid for sweet happiness and blessings always. 2017

No More Reason In The Rhyme - with audio

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Asking all the questions

Making no connections

Drifting through hollow checkout lines

Headed no direction

Diced up into sections

On the freeway one more time

The voice of news resigns

Information to compel and sell

But way up in my head, I’m feeling fine

I’m just cruising on

Just like ten thousand lost songs

In another paradigm

Coming from a different time

Having these big conversations

That never reach their destinations

No communication 
In these words of mine

I’m just cruising along

In an ocean wide and plumb

Smiling youthful faces

Silent waves, and graces

Criminal, a generation behind

Inside feels like dying, 
Crying, trying to remind

Sighing, sharing caring, 
Reaching out deaf and blind

Asking all the questions

Used to give directions

Out front and headed up the line

Singing songs, and making deals

On the stage and in Time square

In Halls and hearts made it shine

Cities crashing to the ground

Unknowing eyes hear no sound

Language foreign, 
No more reason in the Rhyme

Where Do The Words Go

Where do the words go

Down the page

In the book

On the shelf

You know

Where to the words go

Out of the head

On the paper

Scale the caper

Oh, OH

Where do the words go

In the hidden heart

Deep in the soul

And on the pages now

Only the spaces show

Where do the words go

Spent at a party

In a passing car

On the nearest star

A mystery to show

Where do the words go

Between me and thee

He and she

Faces and baby

To pictures below

Where do the words go

Into the ground

To sprout the seeds

In rain coming down

Sunlit sound in swaying trees

Where do the words go

Sent to the spirit rising

Beyond painted horizon

Higher than lightning

Passing Jupiter Calypso and Pluto

Where do the words go

Cleansed in waters above and below

Returned to the Cosmos in

Spiraling eternal shuddering colors

Love’s Utterances of long ago