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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Potatoes and Eggs - with audio

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Potatoes and eggs (big breath in)
Sniffin in a whiff
Breathin in the goodness
Set about my business
Havin more than I shoulda
With my brother as my witness
Sour cream and muffin
One banana, orange juice
Down I am stuffing
Mmmmmm, mmmmm!
Yummy, yummy!
I just wanna say
Thank you mummy!

Wrecking Ball - with audio

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I've hurt someone
Now like a wrecking ball inside me
Again and again each memory
Of the people that I've hurt
Slams and hollows this one out
Like an old abandoned building

What a conceited ass
I have become
My hands reach out
All they find is rubble
My nostrils fill with smoke and dust
Ashes and sulfur are my accusers

Tears lay choking and thrashing
Somewhere deep within
Damn the cold stillness
In the granite quarry
Of a pride cramped belly


A balloon filled with putrid air
A glove with no hand to take it
A cloud without rain

As my silence groans
In the growing darkness

Of empty words and
Broken promises 
Trampled love and
Shattered relationships 
Echos, of what was 
And what might have been.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

November Saturday - with audio

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Looking at the windowsill
Candles fluttering warm light
There is great pleasure being inside
Thinking lazy thoughts
On this November Saturday
These rich and drifting moments
Are a gift from on high.


Saturday, April 08, 2017

Trust In Love - with audio

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Trust in love
Love in trust
God is love
Give to love
Love to give
Love and live
There is peace in love
A gentle urging to kindness

Friday, April 07, 2017

Pretty Kitty Kit Cat - with audio



Pretty kitty kit cat
He’s so little and fat
He’s a pretty kit, kitty kit, kitty kit
Pretty kit kitty Cat

Pretty Kitty Kit cat
Orange and round just like that
Friendly purring on my lap
He’s a pretty kit cat

Pretty Kitty kit cat
At the window mewing this way and that
Eats his food then takes a nap
Pretty kitty kit cat

Pretty Kitty kit cat
Long fur upon his back
His tail it swishes and swishes it swishes
He’s a pretty kit cat

See him crouching in the yard looking pouty
Spying out a lizard or a mousy for his mouthy
He’s eating grass, then goes stalking on a sortie
Finding feral felines for a furry garden brawling party

Pretty kitty kit cat
Chasing string and swatting a gnat
Pouncing on a cricket, stopping to chat
Pretty kitty kit cat

Pretty kitty kit cat
Stretching in the sun laying flat
Scratch his neck with head cocked back
Tell him he's a pretty kit cat, 

for
He’s a pretty kit, kitty kit, kitty kit,
kitty kit, kitty kit, kitty kit, kitty kit,
Pretty kit, kitty kit, pretty kit, kitty kit
Pretty kit, kit-ty cat!

Joy - with audio

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Joy is a bunny hopping about
Inside one's breast

Joy is bubbles of laughter
Waiting to escape a smile

Joy is light turned into breath
Shining out with each sigh

Joy is a brightness unhidden
An uncontainable energy

Joy reaches beyond the stars
Unfathomed, is it's power

The Pine Tree and The Lamp Post - with audio

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Tonight I chanced upon a pine tree
Chatting with a lamppost dressed in black
I'm trimmed straight and lean
The lamp post said
I'm somewhat in between
Said the pine tree, and
With that they swayed and chuckled gustily

Thursday, April 06, 2017

Encrypted Words - with audio

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Encrypted words
Flew like Humming birds
In the heart of the Louvre,
Aujourd'hui et toujours mon ami (Today and Always my friend)
Ideas like melodies
Kisses spent in kind
Make admiring minds
Want to see
Flower and buzzing bee
La vision de l'art
Vie, amour, printemps a nouveau... ,
(The vision of art
Life, love, spring anew ...,)
NOTE
There are riddles here, hence the name
 - the main one being
to figure out the end of the poem.
Give it a try. It is not that hard - really.




All right already, the clue for the ending is in
the last two (whoops) three lines of the poem.
Other riddles involve a play on the word Louvre,
and in looking at the history of the word and how
it has been used. In old French and English 
it is similar to or the same as the word for lover
and a kind of window - hence this is a play on words 
and we are looking into the soul or heart of a lover here, 
who is also in one of the most romantic places
in the world i.e, the Louvre. The rest is, well 
the nature of art springtime and love. Thanks for reading. 


Q: - what's missing from the poem?  

A:- "e tu" - (and you) is the final phrase of the poem,
found in the last letter of the last 3 lines. 
So then, - YOU - mon ami, are the missing ingredient!

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

A Book - with audio

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A book is to be read
With some tea
And some bread

Hid like a crook,
In a nook,
In a bed

With a fire nearby
A tear in your eye
Like a granny

Of wise quiet mind
Then comes slumber
Gentle and kind

Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Riding the Wave of Time - with audio

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I sighed and
He said goodbye
Riding the wave of time

Not long forgotten
He rose again in my mind
Riding the wave of time

Having once died
But now lives again
Riding the wave of time

Somewhere in my soul
Connected to this spirit
Riding the wave of time

Collision, conclusion
Lachrymose the eyes
Riding the wave of time 

Laughter heaves the breath
Sentimental collusion
Riding the wave of time 

Ah, what mysterious reverie
Is that singularity memory
Riding the wave of time

Another year older
Some days longer
Riding the wave of time 

So I wonder
Then ponder
What is yonder
Riding the wave of time 

And he is
But is not
Riding the wave of time

In spacious hearts
And outside all
In Him
Gone is the wave of time

Yet flourishing
Brilliant
And Loving
We remain
Beyond the wave of time.