life: acoustic & amplified

your sweet song is calling

This is the one song everyone

would like to learn: the song

that is irresistible:

the song that forces men

to leap overboard in squadrons

even though they see the beached skulls

the song nobody knows

because anyone who has heard it

is dead, and the others can’t remember.

Shall I tell you the secret

and if I do, will you get me

out of this bird suit?

I don’t enjoy it here

squatting on this island

looking picturesque and mythical

with these two feathery maniacs,

I don’t enjoy singing

this trio, fatal and valuable.

I will tell the secret to you,

to you, only to you.

Come closer. This song

is a cry for help: Help me!

Only you, only you can,

you are unique

at last. Alas

it is a boring song

but it works every time.

❤

Siren Song by Margaret Atwood

If I wrote a poem today

it would be the saddest one you would ever read

It would break your heart into small pieces

and scatter them all over the world

It would cause you to cry new oceans into existence,

and all the stars would burn out from the pain of its essence

global chaos would ensue

the world, as we know it, end

Therefore, I will not write a poem today

I will wait for another day

when love has found me again

and my heart is a riot of joy

rather than sadness

then I will write a poem so brilliant

so brimming with sheer happiness

it will create a new heaven

and a new earth

where we will dance forever
and a long day after that

____________

Amy Lloyd

Is there no music now

except the chime

of coins in the pocket

for which a man would go breathlessly

off course, would even drown?

Odysseus tied to his mast

regretted his own foresight.

In ordinary days to come in Ithaca

the song of some distant bird,

the chords of water against

the shore, even Penelope

humming to herself at the loom

would make his head turn, his eyes

stray toward the sea.

~ Linda Pastan, The Imperfect Paradise

People say how can they feel good when there is so much bad going around? With so many people out there who are being mean to each other. My sister-in-law has cancer. Soldiers are dying from explosions; my response to that is you can’t feel bad enough to make someone else’s life better. You can’t get confused enough to un-confuse one person. You can’t get sick enough to heal one person out there so anytime you are feeling anything other than the good or God, what you are doing is contributing to rather than encouraging others to reconnect to their source.

                                                                                              – Dr. Wayne Dyer