there is a worn notebook collection of songs blueprints frayed at the edges from hours, days, years spent underneath the machine tinkering with word placement the edges frayed the paper sometimes coffee stained the ink runs where liquid hit the page these songs, while just created, are ancient timeless yes, this notebook is a series…
Tag: Poems
secret walk
i have a secret walk that is not so secret it has no special door or key or access code it does not require a fee in some ways, it may be circuitous maybe it seems not very direct to those who know that i take it to get to a particular destination it’s not…
go-to song
my go-to song on play volume up don’t care how often i play it because it’s never enough song will always go and i have no favorite part because it is all my favorite i listen and i am whole again there is no other music song makes me look to the heavens question my…
making magic
standing underneath a streetlight dim artificial glow rain falls around like glitter and when the light hits right you are floating within stardust darkness like a warm blanket hugs the sidewalk barely seen tree outlines lean in close and whisper good ideas to enact later i write them down i go (to myself) oh that…
a little bird
ground i stand on while the light keeps shifting warm sun seems like an anomaly and clouds’ shadows drift in the breeze creating a space that reflects patches of light and at the edges of park in between the brush a sparrow finds a place high up above the city walkways speeding cars and the…
moving through the denseness of a forest
in a place where there are millions of trees leaves create a temporary barrier palm leaves brush past you while moving forward doesn’t matter the pace slow or moving fast through greenery the air is thick with dew and distant birds animals calls echo reverberating off the stems shaking moving through underneath a canopy of…
look to the sky
when you come to the first part of the day where you are under sky after a long while confined and neatly organized suddenly released into the the wild vibrant rainbow sky where you don’t know the outcome but feel that it will be good stand under it looking up and as you close your…
unbroken
the hands reach out to hold on put the pieces back together hold it together the hands surround support each one giving warmth each one giving strength the hands soothe the hands calm the hands centered around the body place hands and hold they do so until there is no more they bind together bring…
this sounds so familiar
bells ring across the land the chord structure sounds familiar and sad and i’m trying to remember go back in my memory playing the notes backwards the beat is inside out and someone sings in spanish, which makes me cry i’m breathing at a pace that seems reasonable but i don’t know if the fog…
The Dynamics of Groove 