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I love music like a fat kid loves cake. It's the only true way of expressing the muddled up crap we call feelings. Idealistically, I'm a realist. Realistically, I'm an idealist. Overall, I think too much and too philosophically. Venture into the stream of insanity I call my consciousness and take it, as everything, with a grain of salt. The size (and type) of that grain is yours to decide.

Monday, January 31, 2011

My Soul Dances

While listening to the Moonlight Sonata composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven, I began to write down words that came into my mind, inspired by the enrapturing music. In a way, I believe music takes my soul on an ineffable journey which cannot be done justice by my attempt at a poem.

Blind

Melodies wavering,
Lilting, swaying bodies
Graceful, twist, shapes emerge
Weaving, spinning stories beneath
Moonlight, spilling, cascades
Into mist, enveloping
Breathe in, submerge
Floating, caress
The surface
A lover’s kiss
Cold, and sweet, snow
Drifts gentle, settle, blanket
In white, spinning
Swirling up, illuminate
The sky, warmth
Spills over, glowing sun
Gentle tugging breakthrough
A rose in bloom,
Bright petals float
Carried by the wind, falling
Cascading
Yellow,
Orange
Red
Circle
Stir sounds
Awaken, flood
Of lights, movement,
Swaying, harmony
Of sounds, surrender,
Moving, breathing,
Rise and fall
Linger

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

How do you live life? The ultimate question

To Live Life

Screaming
Incense stirs
Pouring
Tearing through dirt
Alive

Pools of foam
Fringed
Chocolate brown
Notice
See the life

Valleys
Fields of poppy
Roses
White on skies
Breathe

Rubbed raw skin
Ringlets
Textured uneven
Pricks
Feel the warmth

Canyons
Without rain
Rounded
Sounds of echoes
Pounding

Senses mixing
Shatter
Spread the wings
Crash
Break the water

Sunday, January 23, 2011

A Conversation Between Death and a Lord

So I was inspired to write this from an episode of Criminal Minds where the killer writes the verses of death (from a 16th century ballad -  Dialogue Betwixt Death and a Lady (http://www.contemplator.com/england/death.html) near the crime scene.

Stroke of Dusk: The Fated Visit                    

Winter’s breath finds its way
An open window by the fireplace
Hushed whisperings, embered glow
Silent knocking at the door

Night is cold, sky is dark
Rolling thunder followed the spark
Hidden by darkness, sheltered by trees
Secrets carried by the twilight breeze

Who could it be at the darkest hour
Innocent lives this beast doth devour
I welcomed in the hooded straner
My heart skipped fast and darkened over

Why have you come? I dared to ask
While I still prie, my youth not passed
Why not come another day
When mem’ries have grayed, take me away

He replied with words like ice
Shivers it sent, right down my spine
Your time has come so spare your breath
The end of your journey you have met

I’ll pay in bars or sparking stones
Strings of pearl and cashmere robes
I have a son, I beg you please
His wedding is near, I need to see!

Keep your fancy pebbles and rags
Worthless they are when bones turn to ash
Your son shall wed in three months’ time
Time is not yours, nor even mine

Your wealth has turned to worse than mud
To serve your purpose it no longer does
When asked by others to spare some change
You laughed and walked the path astray

Come with me, I’ve heard enough
He is waiting, the one above
The time to face your past has come
From destiny you cannot run

Weakly I followed him through
Nothing more there was to do
Listen all ye mortal men
Death is faster than the stroke of pen

Live each day as though your last
The life you live will surely pass
Choose your course, careful and wise
And strip your pride, a foolish disguise