DREAM ON

An off key blues singer, ms blues to you, so sing along with me

I want to sing my bluetry off key for you

So we can have a fling, peruse my blues, schmooze along the Danube

Escape New York City’s sweet heat summertime

Maybe book a trip to Syracuse where it’s always cold

Got the blues from my head to my toes

Good morning heartache

Try to keep pushing ahead

Exploding inside like an earthquake

Heartbeat moves like a drumhead

Love’s left behind in the game

Make the dream reality

Integrity, happily love the song Valerie

Especially as sang by Amy,

There’s a fatality of sanctity

Specificity is not the answer

Hard to stay focused, too much to do

my mind swept up in strong currents

Some things matter more than money monarchies

Demolition derby – spiteful resolution

My poetic genius stands across the street

Observing me from Ft. George Hill

With trepidation, Search for liberation

Discover corruption in my old soul

“Walk this way,” I say

Flames eat me alive from inside

Sky set on fire, bring our souls from mire,

My heart a siren, beats with desire

Stir passion in, fire blossoms into love

Religious history for all mankind

Find our way out of a bind 

Stay on the peace grind, remain centered, mindful

All religion winds down to similar precepts

My life’s an open book

Written in an ancient language only my soul deciphers

Is it easy to define me?

A midnight blue sky filled with silver stars twinkling fragrant amidst fuchsia blossoms

Leaves falling from dogwood trees

A white turtledove suddenly flies into my open hand - from above, spreads his wings

Hovers a second or two above my head

Do you think I’m in love again?

Floating in the sea,

I’m where I need to be

Like living in a musical ballet
Jelling in a renaissance of humanity

PRECIPITOUS RAINSTORM IN MY HEAD

My thoughts run wild like a child beguiled

Can’t follow instructions or conversation

Want my mind reconciled

My mind runs ahead of me screaming directions

In desperation I hear reflections abound in my head

Talking so fast I get lost trying to follow

So much confusion right here in my brain

Follow the next thought with exasperation

Turn left here now turn right and take this detour

The allure of this thought or that conjecture calls

I can’t keep track, my thoughts run so fast

Runs fast from past to current newscast

Weather overcast, Look through clothes amassed

What should I wear today?

Why am I an outcast?

I must be miscast

The details flabbergast me

How long can all this last?

Thoughts flit like a bird from tree to bough

I attempt to plow through my to do list

But only get so far when my mind races again

No wonder I’m so tired at the end of the day

I can’t keep my mind still, keep it

So lively inside, I talk to hundreds of people a day

Only it’s only inside my head where the conversations play

My rich inner life never occurs in real time

It’s like a ball bouncing between very close walls

Like music, my reflections rise and fall

Uncontained by restraints

My mind races on uncontained

An eruption occurs 10 times a second

I try to check in with the present

With frequent dissent into intent

I reckon my mind’s in a rush like

A kiss and first blush, my mind
moves so fast I feel like I been running all day

Believe In The Dream

Make the dream reality

Integrity, happily love the song Valerie

Especially as sang by Amy,

There’s a fatality of sanctity 

Specificity is not the answer

Hard to stay focused, too many things to focus on 

my mind swept up in strong currents 

Some things matter more than money monarchies 

Set the sky on fire, bring souls out of mire, 

Heart is a siren beats with desire 

Tired of infighting, stir the fire of love 

Israel’s religious history is here for all mankind to find their way out of a bind  

stay on the peace grind at the center of mindfulness, 

All religion winds down to similar precepts 

my life’s seems an open book 

I say it’s written in an ancient language translated by my soul 

So stop thinking it’s so simple to define me 

A midnight blue sky filled with silver stars amidst fuchsia blossoms 

Leaves falling from dogwood trees 

A white turtle dove suddenly flew into my hand-came  from above, 

hovered a second or two 

Do you think it’s because I’m in love again?

Making Lemonade

I got my own sour songs, my own sour wrongs,

My own damn right to sing the blues

Catch me if you can because I’m elusive conclusive

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

but the fruit of the poor lemon tree is impossible to eat

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

but the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat

One day beneath the lemon tree I realized I’d been fooled from the start

Make it a point to fool myself regarding matters of the heart

Love is very pretty to see

adrenalin runs thickly through my veins

tries to convince me I cause the sour taste

so I swallow the bitter trying not to wallow in self-pity,

To regain insight without blame trying my best to believe love exists

Our great nation is at the mercy of another oppression

a rising recession a looming depression of immense proportions

like we’ve only seen once before.

I’m tired of making lemonade with so many lemons

I want to leave the bad behind, keep an open mind

I’ve come to like the taste of bitter lemons discovering it’s better than nothing at all

Search for direction a solution to the pollution, the destruction of humans and planet looking for a way out of the confusion, the inevitable destruction giving up human rights, praying for evolution some simple solution another revolution

In a rhapsody of blue dreams unable to define, blowing in the wind

The planets aligned provide piece of mind

a little peace of mind to help hope stay alive to dream

about fresh ground and brewed java served with a little steamed cream each morning

Sunlight steams though the window blinds provide a remnant of peace.

A world where everyone’s kind, people refuse to be blind truth dominates

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

WHAT’S GOING ON

Why blame me for all the pain

Credit me for all the gains you’ve had

For years and years

Credit me for fame

Who wants the blame for what you said I did

That I didn’t do

I know your name

It’s ok for you to jump in my game

  

Stop acting like we’re Cain and Abel

Or like we’re both rebels on opposite sides

In line for the same resources

I’m your friend not your enemy

Don’t confuse me,

I won’t excuse you

Don’t play this game today

My name is your name

Let’s put us in a frame

It sounds a little lame

But it’s true not contrite

We’re staying tight

Don’t give up the fight

I’m trying to keep you alive

Finally saw the light

Left behind the blight

Left me in such a fright

Really not trite

I assure you

The value of my life depends on fame, on my name, my game and gain

Spread the word

Don’t blame me for the pain

For not seeing the way you claim

To see I can’t pretend to be or see what I don’t see

I’d like to play that game sometimes, would make life a little easier and I admit I took that turn several times – went down that path knowing the truth had left me there, alone and bereft

So I try again and again

Help, help me please

For The Thrill Of It All

Hugs and kisses, velvet wishes

Come to an end and what’s left

Change husbands, like changing an old pair of shoes for new

Like buying a new pair of shoes

Sudden change to my heart’s colder weather

Gets cold outside, feel blue, another breakthrough

Work to get through the next day

Everyone says they’re coming through

Can’t believe what anyone says

It’s a new day and I’m

one flew over the cuckoo’s nest

Hard pressed to think I messed up again

Trying my best to stay compressed, so distressed

My heart thumps in my chest

Please God let me be Mae West

Life’s work a contest, possessed by desire to conquest

Impressed by old things finessed, dressed to kill

Live in an all frills world

Cotton candy clouds

Are worth more than riches         

And more delicious too

Death gnaws at my life

Fret at changes in this body I no longer know like I used to

No longer own

This body betrays me and does whatever it wants to do

It’s not me just a shell, like a tortoise I will shed

My body like a garden hose, thrown around and carelessly mistreated till it grows holes

Neglected, abused, torn inside out, rife with strife

Can’t get away from myself

This body ages without grace

Thoughts seclude me

Nostalgia eludes me

Randomly search inside to know this body that is mine

Life’s burrs consume me

Soul is youthful, yearns to learn, to see the unseen

Physical pains don’t belong to me, only this body I am forced to carry

It can’t all be bad - We all get old

Some of life glows with rhythm like sudden golden shimmers of a glad song

Words are the answer to my body.

Return to my roots, go slow with the flow, my words – this body begins to control what I do

I swear this body is not me and struggle to see what I
truly am made of – sugar and spice, so nice

Destiny tugs at my heart’s strings
I sing my way through the valley of my soul

The Planet Completes One More Spin Around The Earth

A pleasant fresh chill fills the air

Evening sings, temperature drops

Season's preview, pull out winter socks

Dark at four thirty, tranquilized

Sun arrives at six forty five

Clocks schedule set back an hour

Quarter moon mesmerizes me

Fragrant mists flower

Bloom in autumn's last hurrah,

Sun salutations drive us, survive one

More rotation around our earth
One more round of death and birth

Show and Know - Kiss me now

Give me a little kiss will ya huh

I promise not to tell

No one will know

I won’t tell and show

Give me a little kiss will you huh

Don’t worry I won’t yell if you do what I tell you

Put your lips close to mine, Baby

I won’t let on, come a little bit closer

Put your lips right on mine Babe

Give me a little kiss, will you huh

Is a kiss love or desire

Put your hips close to mine

Feel the electricity flow

Through my fingertips when I touch you

Is it worth it? You decide

My love for you is deeper than the deepest sea

Softer than the softest breeze

Higher than the tallest tree

Don’t ask me why this prize was yours

Not mine to decide

Not what’s said but dread of unsaid

Written words make me become undone

Much more than spoken do

You don’t need this shit called love any more than I do

Move to the beat, broken souls reject

Healing, sift through broken bones

As though the answer lies in our wishes

We become lies we live

Buried in solitude, create a fortress

Make us prisoners

Of our own demise

Hearts like silver need polish

Troubled and cautious, need to demolish

Striving to forget unpunished deeds

Our souls create a fort for faith

Hide away, survive wounds, lost battles, day after day

Feel like I’m a rash or allergy, out of control

Think before you speak or

Forever hold your peace

Like shame from tarnished childhood

Secluded from the sun

There’s nothing won in fighting

Tell me give up

I’ll stop hoping

My love for you, stronger than a hurricane

More powerful than an angry storm at sea

Baby don’t make me explain

Feelings I have for you

My heart stuck on you like glue

Love like morning dew