Avalanche
Dateless
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
"Arc"
Arc
I wander down the the arc of time
Each heartbeat rhythm to a rhyme
A riddle ringing through it all the while
The answer hidden in the depths of smile
The pulse of life beats wings upon the skies
We both achieve the arc, the wings let fly
As we gaze into other's eyes
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
"Colours"
Colours
A strength resides upon love's grace within eternal halls
No force of time or man can ever breach these sturdy walls
Upon the rampart's walk, impatience stirs, the passion calls
Across the land, the spell as winter's blight of guilt enthralls
But, slowly, now, enchanted land gives way to life and Spring
The crocus blooms, the squirrel romps, and birds begin to sing
The memories retain their force, but glistening returns
The sun upon the dew-filled land evaporates concerns
Despair and all its pitied ilk no longer hold them fast
Discoveries of life and love, the endless vistas vast
The land is well renewed as all the panic now subsides
Upon the mount of memories, the heart so boldly rides
From keep and through the gate, they canter through the broader world
To flowers thrown, and lances raised, the pennant is unfurled
Time has reinforced the colours of this endless love
The gifts are clear, the end is seen, the heart does rise above
Friday, October 18, 2024
"Thoughts and dreams"
Thoughts and dreams
Riding every wave of life and care
How wonderful, I feel you're always there
Silly it may seem, for sure
That every time I open door
I expect to see your grace
As my heart begins to race
The sound of phone, must be your ring
A passing car, your presence bring
I love your reign
How remarkable it always seems
That you remain
In all my thoughts and dreams
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
" The Wonder of Her"
The Wonder of Her
The wonder of Her I do not know
But, oh, so dearly, wish it so
Her magic ripples through the air
The wonder of it leaves you bare
But, oh, I wish it so
To say that She is made of lace
Fulfilled in elegance of grace
Begins the loving, slow
I know, deep down, the wonder lies
That I would never compromise
But, oh, to revel in Her grace
Raise the tide to loving pace
Is all that I would know
This may need work. I wrote it in a moment, just a few moments ago.
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Happy Birthday 2024
Happy birthday 2024, My Gypsy Empress
You spread your wings and fly beyond all bounds
Of strictures held by all relentless hounds
You glisten in the morning of new dawn
I pray you love until all wind is drawn
The passion of the moment turns to passion everlasting
Beyond the bounds and scope of life's tremendous casting
My vision has been focused on your love deserved
In presence of spectacular delight as lightly served
As selfless as can vastly be construed and still retain
The sanity so necessary midst the pouring rain
Don't worry, I don't cry that much
Immensity of time and such
Assures me we connect
All lives in retrospect
I'll love you all eternity, I celebrate each ray
When time arrives in which we both will sing and play
Excitement all I care to feel
Anticipating love so real
Let the hardened armour deliquesce
Enough for interchange to acquiesce
Happy Birthday 2024
Happy Birthday 2024, Artful Dodger
Unto the day, impatiently I wait
For wonder that will come to celebrate
I always start on poems way too soon
In restless state beneath the summer moon
This year is different in degree
I start this poem in the lee
Of winter's frost
The wind picks up the song of celebration
Sends it off in high anticipation
Across the sea, the plains, and mountain ranges
Echoes all your grace that never changes
Amidst the forest rumour flies
From the flowers to the skies
Of heart embossed
Wings are spread as angels seek the ground
Flutters stilled as angels seek the sound
Of ache and love that only one can sing
Deep body blows midst revelries that ring
Sunday, July 28, 2024
"Windward"
Windward
I couldn't ask for more from you than what you always gave
The thrill to life, amidst duress, you caught the wind to stave
I'll woo, again, another day
When that wind is on its way
That has always been the need
When you and I and life are freed
While wooing you in ages past
Intent was always but to cast
My life as yours in all the lives
Through all of it, this heart still thrives
Both future and those lives well gone
Awaiting always the new dawn
Of love as it is spread
From heart unto the head
Before us like a golden field
In which you never need to yield
But love me only because I deserve it
Monday, July 15, 2024
" Vanishing point"
Vanishing point
Bursting along in the fire of cadenza
Flame of the heart reignites in Firenza
The wisp of the trails of the whirlwind remain
To empty the seats in applause for the reign
Of the grace in this life and a way to anoint
This moment in time through the vanishing point
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"Kaleidoscope"
Kaleidoscope
Crafted from the cosmos, mingled colors on the run
Venting cosmic teardrops, sparkling diamonds in the sun
Living chips away each day to bring more rays to light
To craft Kaleidoscope that is unrivaled in delight
This is no mere combining of a barrel and some chips
Something more's been added to the whirling as it trips
Gigantic to the minuscule, the measures never change
The tumbling of the diamond chips will always rearrange
All variance that crafts arrays of love that moves the soul
If you reel in close enough, take time to see the whole
It seems I cannot help but be enamoured by your light
The sparkling incandescence midst the blazing of the night
Like warmth upon the brow of blinded beast beneath the sun
Like flame that fills the emptiness as revel is begun
I sought the charm with every sense, then, once I was enchanted
A traipsing vagabond across the darkness has been granted
A glimpse of something more
A tempo beat, a measured score that changes on a whim
Beneath the dark, a blaze betrays a brilliance as prelim
To ever-changing note and key, excuse me my delight
In ever-coruscating Flow of radiance so bright
I could not ask for more
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Monday, July 1, 2024
"Blazing sun"
Blazing sun
Sometimes I think I wander through the woods
Of mind in desperate thought of do's and could's
Because I've ached for many lives before
To love you deeply midst the written score
Of wonder of the cosmos that is sealed
By loving so transcendently revealed
As in the love of two becoming one
That blazes in the night as blazes sun
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
"Magic"
Or, Master of interaction (it ain't me)
She weaves the world in such a way to celebrate the night
Her touch has always traveled so to stir the note's delight
'Tis magic of another kind
Like waves of time transcending from a whirling cabaret
Responding to the heart in ways that mysteries portray
'Tis magic of a different mind
Sunday, June 16, 2024
"Raffishly"
Raffishly
It seems that once I start the poem train
It makes of life its own, begins to reign
Releasing thoughts of you without restraint
Precluding slightest effort or complaint
Becoming nigh impossible to shake
It pours out from my blood and bones, awake
Reaching transcendental, hit the brake
As if all life and love were now at stake
I try so hard to give it lightest touch
But, always, it comes out a bit too much
Chagrin and rolling eyes becoming vogue
Spiced with feelings of the raffish rogue
But, there beneath the tentative and fright
Remains essential thoughts of pure delight
Friday, June 14, 2024
"Ocean III"
I walk along the border of the ocean and the land
A split infinity that always offers something grande
Along another border of infinity and spine
The fire alights along with something fine
Whether it is lit with only revels of the mind
Or, consummated in this life, I find
Unswerving faith in this infinity
And you
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
"Smooth"
Smooth
Like soft summer showers that light up the skin
Like warm, gentle touch of the loving within
So smooth, like the wash of the sea on the sands
Like jagged chain lightning ignites as it lands
Like two-twenty volts made of satin and lace
Like rockets exploding and gone without trace
The smoothness erupts and the shock comprehends
That loving will last as each heartbeat transcends
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
"Blaze"
Blaze
You blaze incandescent but, then, so do I
My flame to the firmament, you light the sky
It's always the same in all that we do
You light the sky, I light the view
An Amazing Time
I've finally begun to understand music. It's amazing. What I have been missing for seven decades is an ear for music, which kinda astounds me, since I love music and listen to it virtually all the time.
I am finally acquiring an ear as I finally get over the mania of a lifetime. Not you, my dear. The other one.
In all honesty, I still have a long way to go to understand music as well as I desire. It will certainly take another lifetime, at least.
All of it is beginning to fall in place. The tuning device, guitar, and piano all played their part in tuning my ear. The piano provides a fairly accurate note, the guitar lets you learn to tune in to a note, and the tuning device that I hook on the end of my guitar refines the ear further (hmmm, gotta try it on the piano). All have helped my ear now that I have time to pay attention.
Kinda the same with the rest of the necessary musical learnings. I had to, then, hear notes. Then chords. Then songs and creating music and songs.
Since I've picked away at the guitar all my life, it's the best vehicle for this exploration. Now, I'm up to picking out the chords in a song (often with a chord chart (that is not always right)), which are much more of a pain because they don't all fit anywhere you like in the song so well.
Let me explain my approach to, well, damn near everything. I just don't trust a single thing that I am told. At best, it's a short cut. That may be okay for some learnings but something remains missing. I won't do that with anything dear to me. I learned that lesson early and it was reinforced almost every day of my life. There is only one exception and that is you, my dear. Somehow, I don't know how to explain it, but you ring like a chime through me. It began, of course, with listening to you, which shook me to the ground. You probably know which song it was. Then, the expressiveness ... well, I've talked about the rest ad nauseam elsewhere. You just make perfect sense to me.
Back to music. I don't much care for the educational setup of prehumanity. It is great for training Pavlov's Dog but not a human.
I like the scores and scale of notes. Something worth learning. Kinda necessary with a piano.
It bugs me that most sites that provide guitar chords (unlike a score) seldom mention the scale in which the music has been written.
I do like the guitar chord summary sites a lot. But, I don't want the song written out for me when I am fooling around with listening to the song while trying to play along. I just want the chord summary. Anything more would cross the boundary into rote.
Chords are new to my exploration. It is a more complex sound than a single note. So, I have had to learn to listen to the sound of the chords I play and the sound of the chords being played in the song and make them match. I have a new song for my epitaph but it falls far short of the mark. I might have to add some lyrics. "Gypsy soul" by Van Morrison.
I break down the songs into those I desperately want to play on guitar and those that are just knockout, drop-dead good music that I would love to learn. Then I have a playlist that started with about 5,000 (all) of the songs currently in residence. I delete the songs that just absolutely annoy me in that playlist.
With the most special list of songs (only like two or three, right now), I acquire the chords from a site. I play along with the song, picking out the notes and trying to make the sound of the chords match the music being played. In both cases, it is very random but it works. I have figuring out the five key notes that fit easily when playing lead guitar down to a few seconds, even for new songs. I'm just starting to feel like I've reached a similar plateau for chords. I am starting to hear where they belong.
It's weird and I have yet to come up with an explanation but, for every song, there are five notes that just work. They fit. In many cases, they fit so well that you can play any of those five notes at any point in the song and it sounds right. I know there are (only typically?) seven notes to a scale (no, I haven't gone and looked if there are other variations with more or less notes. I'm pretty sure there are)..
Do you see? Do you see what I bypass by not just learning by rote? By not being 'told' the way it works, I am free to explore the boundaries that most are taught to just accept (had the same trouble with physics, now that I think about it; I'd love to get into that but no one would be interested).
Oh! A little more on music that I don't want to forget to mention. What I have never even considered in the slightest was writing a song. I'm awful good at putting pen to paper (electronic version of) for poetry, but the thought of attempting to write a song completely blew me out of the water. I couldn't even conceive the thought. How in the world??!!?
Bang! Got it. I used to go so far as to wonder if the music or the words had to come first. I think the actual answer is both, from the learning experiences from poetry. For me, though, it became crystal clear. I, at least, have to start with the music. In some ways, that is because I do not entirely understand how it all fits together yet. Part of making a song is making music that sounds good, the notes fit. For me, the words are the easy part. I finally realized, the words will drop into slots once the music is down pat. In other words, I have to screw around with notes and chords and begin to learn how to put them together without the template of an existing song. Kinda have to see what happens. With so many brilliant examples of music surrounding me, I'm not too concerned with going off into the weeds. Maybe just a little bit off the path to do some exploring, now and then.
I prefer getting the rote after I have made my own thorough exploration through a journey of innocence; that can take decades, in some cases. I don't know if I will ever get to the point of chasing rote with poetry or music. I doubt it. There is a sentient purity about both that rote would just tarnish.
That reminds me of a friend that once told me how she didn't want to go commercial with her music. With a passion like that? Why would anyone avoid making a living out of their passion? Oh, I get it. The brute impedes. But, to live your passion? The extraneous forces can be regulated, to some extent, if you are sharp. It may be painful along the way, but the end result should be worth it. Otherwise, you end up in a hole pulling the ground in around you. It should be easier to pursue, especially for the awesome gender that has been so mistreated down through the ages, as we become human.
Of course, so far (and I don't expect it to change), intellectually, I know how to write a song. That is a far shot from actually writing a song. I really can't see it happening in this lifetime.
I am soooo worried this is going to sound crazy. I'm getting to that age where I have to monitor everything I do. That is difficult when trying to convey thoughts. Does that phrase I just cooked up even make sense as an analogy? metaphor?, as an example.
Well, I could rattle on more but, I assure you, it would ramble and digress like an out-of-control freight train.
Barely edited.
I finally have something to add here. I've been thinking about the guitar and voice. On a guitar, I just love to play along with songs and run all over the fret board.
I once heard a story about a girl that passed through where I was living. She was a musician and she could play along with any song within a short while after hearing it. That has always been my goal.
I am finally reaching that point and it is amazing. Ranging all over the fret board and soaring along with the song. Yes, I would like to record it and see if it sounds as good as I think. I'm still learning but at times I can suit the notes to the song and I feel like I'm adding something to it. Although what I play is not a set piece, I think it is quite attractive.
That is a problem I have with concerts. I was shocked the second time I saw a concert. It was the same band as in the first concert I ever saw and it was staged. It was a set piece, from the music, notes, and even the moves of the singer, hanging off of an amp exactly like in the first show.
Now, that suits the audience. Sure, but how boring must it be for the musicians?
My point is that I really like the way I play along with a song and don't worry about making it sound the exact same each time.
Now, voice. I think of the way I range on a guitar and I was wondering about singers. I can hear it occasionally in a song, the little nuances that are spur of the moment. I was just listening to Cruisin' by Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis. His voice at point, adds little pieces to the song. Sorry, not explaining it well at all.
It's hard without playing a piece. You know how a lead guitar ranges though.
I started thinking about singing; not words, just notes; along with the guitar piece I am playing to sort of get used to it just as I had to do on the guitar.
But, voice! What an instrument! I guess that's it for now. I don't know if I'll have anything to add. I have started up on the guitar and piano, once again. There were a lot of reasons I quit playing. All of them are tentatively resolved. What surprised me a lot, even though I've played well over ten thousand hours on the piano, I thought I'd be staring from scratch when I tried again. Not so much.
On guitar, I can still play pieces that I learned when I was in my twenties without blinking an eye. The piano, though, was, first of all, learned while in my fifties and sixties, so I didn't think it would stick as well. Which leads me to another difference about the piano. I have never looked at the keyboard. Not once.
So, it wasn't really the same kind of learning as on the guitar. Call it more intuitive, if you like, but as I get back at it, I'd call it painful. Good thing I have patience by the bucketload. This second time around, it is like a fresh start in some ways and, as I usually find when dropping something for an extended period and returning, it gives me a new perspective.
Also, good thing I don't need to rely on music for my existence. I don't think I would survive.
The thing is that I treat music just like I treat rhoetry. To get to the state required to really play along with a song and make it meaningful and soulful, I just about have to get completely out of my mind (not go completely out of my mind).
While in the past, I have occasionally relied on, ummm, substances, I don't think it's really necessary. A whole lot of the rhoetry (that led to the prose), and most of the more coherent books were written without any substance XX
Hmmm, maybe I should mention I use XX to indicate a missing word where the concept is clear but the word is absent for the time being. I used that a lot with rhoetry. One might otherwise think I was sending kisses. That too, though.
I just figured out another facet of that ability to stare right while gazing left by kicking my mind into suspension while playing along with a song.
That suspension of thought is exactly what I do with rhoetry, as well. It is like a meditation state on steroids. Maybe even more so with playing music than rhoetry. That is a high order of thought required while simultaneously let your mind roam. Maybe also because it uses muscle memory. There's still a lot that I do not entirely understand about that suspended state that creates beautiful music and rhoetry with insights. Wow, composing lyrics.
Sorry to refer to the other subject but, the more I look at it, the more I understand about the blockage of awareness of what is really going on with sex. It is amazing. The women that accept the awareness and deal with it are rare indeed. Most hide from the truth. Every man hides from it to some extent.
I don't know how many men actually realize that the incapability shows their incapability to think like a human can and should. We have so much pent up potential just waiting to be released as a race.
To the point I was getting at, we are born raring to go, then puberty hits and it all falls apart into indirect accusations. Trying to hide from the facts of the matter while spending all of our time anguishing over the results, takes up our total consciousness.
I swear, I really kind of hope I am the one to pull it all together.
This is the kind of stuff that there's just no rational reason to put out there. Without the grounding, I feel it would just confuse.
I really think I'm done with sending stuff out to the universe with nothing in return.
I've started a journal for such as I feel like writing. I have to admit, I'm kinda hooked on writing. The thoughts just keep coming. But, I don't need to send them out there any longer. These new thoughts don't need to be read except by someone that knows the rest of the story. I'm not convinced anyone is, so why bother posting any longer? It is a lot of trouble.
There is now, plenty out there in all entendres.
The more I think about it, the more I like exactly how I went about this whole thing. This is not something to bang a tin pan about. It is something that has to spread as the surety of men increases. They are enough of a mess as they are. I so wish I could start the parade but I'm on the wrong end of life to do so.
Maybe next life. I expect it would be there waiting for me. I can't feel bad about it, either way it goes as long as I retain these memories in some form. If I am certain of one thing it is that, if I reincarnate, a lot more stays with me than most would believe. It's the only way I explain this life at all.
There's a whole story I wrote about that.
There I go. All about music and, next thing you know, ...
Wow! Just realized Mel Torme pretty much treats his voice like I was saying about playing lead on a guitar.