Hope Gap...A movie I highly recommend for many reasons

 

Two Voices

Two Voices

Hateful words flying through the air

Like missiles and poisonous gas

They don't listen

Being so intent on trying to come up with

The next argument to prove how "woke" they are.

And let the people say.....I'm tired of this crap!!!

Anger's voice is too loud to talk over

We need a peacemaker like Ghandi, like Martin Luther King, like Jesus

The Bible says: Make no friendship with an angry man

Why?

Because an angry man is a walled city that can't be scaled

Bang your head on his wall, he won't hear you

He only hears the screams of his anger

Anger, non-righteous, is a demon that is only afraid of love

Righteous anger is good but even that must be laid aside

Before the sun goes down.

There comes a time

When weapons need to be laid down

And replaced by handshakes and hugs

And let the people say...I'm tired of war!

You can't rewrite history

You can only write the next chapter of the story

Let the poets and the lovers and the godly write that chapter

Take the thousand dollar pens out of the hands of the one per centers

It is they who wrote the previous chapters of hate and war

And made the innocent masses pay for their crimes.

And let the people say....Ain't that the truth!!!!

We know what's going on here,

We who have ears to hear

And eyes to see

We know who it is that loves war and hates peace

We know who it is that conquers by division

We know what drives men to madness 

And children to nightmares

We know.........................

And we know that the ancient law of "eye for an eye"

Only led to a world full of blind men

"Tooth for a tooth" led to teethless people made even more angry

By their inability to gnash their teeth

The only people who will attain peace in this world

Are those, like Chief Joseph, who say "I will fight no more again forever."

For fighting leads to fighting and killing of the body

Leads to killing of the soul.

And let the people say...... Somebody done growed a brain up in here!!!

All blood is red (unless you're a Martian)

And all men bleed the same color

Why?

Because we are of one race, one species, one family

Sly Stone said it well in "Family Affair" when he sang....

"One child grows up to be somebody that just loves to learn

And another child grows up to be somebody you'd just love to burn

Mom loves the both of them. You see it's in the blood.........

What am I saying?

 We are all one family, one blood

But depending on whose voice you listen to and follow.....

You will either be a good or evil member of that family

You will love your fellow man or burn in  the fire of your own anger

It's your choice to make

 Hate begets hate, love begets love

The Creator will still love you

 But He probably won't like you very much.

Why? 

Because you don't listen to the voice of Reason

But are swayed by the voice of Vengeance

There are only two voices in this world

One wants you to live in peace and love as you were made to love

And the other one knows...................

His time is short.

And let the people say.....Amen and Amen!

(now give me a High Five 

and a hug around the neck, Somebody!)

©by Voo Shining Stone

Sept 29, 2020

8:34 p.m.

Family Affair By The Family Stone

Questions Inspired By Lost Love and Bobby Womack

Questions Inspired By Lost Love

And Bobby Womack

Where do we go from here

Now that our love has gone?

How do our feet dance their slow dance

Now that they're walking alone?

When do we get to smile again?

Our smiles disappeared when we frowned

How do we stay above water

Now that the passion has drowned?

Why did our love die in vain

After living so sweetly in dreams?

Why did the promise get broken so quickly

When we found nothing was what it seems?

How do you mend what is broken?

Can the broken rise up and be healed?

How does a soul resume dreaming?

When you find only nightmares are real?

I don't know, my love, where you are tonight

And all these things, my heart needs to know

I'm lost and I'm going right out of my mind

Because it's the only place I know to go.

©by Voo Shining Stone

9/2020

and more Bobby Womack

    

 

 

My Second Favorite Song Raptor................

A thousand full moons pound in my heart

Wanting to be....wild with you.............

If I Had To Choose One Favorite Song.....this would probably have to be it

Make A Smile For Me 

by Bill Withers

I grew up listening to this song over and over

and still do. Put it on loop and let the words

and music carry you away. Peace

Little Drummer Boy

Little Drummer Boy

There he sits in the background, as usual

In the dark, behind the stars

 

He waits for his solo

Patiently, but not always

Sometimes, he has to play

To let go of the rage

To get all the pain gone

And beat the hell out of the demons

When he gets like that

The other members turn to look

Stand to the side

And let him have the floor

Play, little drummer boy, they chant

And the audience stops in their tracks

It's those times he lives for

Those moments he shines like the star he is

You can hear the drum beat in heaven

You can feel the roll in hell

The room races with the rhythm

And his heart comes alive with the beat of percussion

Play, little drummer boy, play, I say softly

As I watch him from my corner

And as he plays and marches to his own beat

I feel the earth move under my feet

I feel my pain shatter like glass

And fall away like rain gone dry

On and on he pounds those drums

Softly now, wilder now, wilder now

And the cymbals crash in silence

As the crescendo peaks and falls

We catch our breath

And hold it, afraid to exhale

The moment is magic

It's healing, it's deliverance in a drum

The crowd goes wild

And for a moment, the spotlight holds him prisoner

Then it's over

And the stars begin to sing again

The people rush to the dance floor

Full of energy, full of renewed release

And in the background

The little drummer boy sits in the dark

Tears fill his eyes, he is alone

His hands hurt, his fingers tingle

But the anger is gone now

The rage subsided, the demons quieted

He has played his heart out once more

And nothing else matters to him for awhile

And he is at peace

©by Voo

Dec 1, 08

7 p.m.

For Todd

Take Me Back To The Night We Met

 

Falling Off A Cliff

 

Falling Off A Cliff

Falling off a cliff

Is easier than falling out of love with you

'Cause you don't have a lot to grab hold of

While falling into a valley below

But oh, so much to hold onto

When you're trying to let love go.

Falling through the ice

Is easier than falling out of love with you

'Cause underneath that icy prison

You can't breathe anything

And trying to inhale in this world of woe

Is like breathing frozen air.

Falling into insanity

Is easier than falling out of love with you

'Cause insanity distorts your every thought

And you can't think with rational mind

But love's insanity amplifies

Each pain for all of time.

Falling into that love

Was easier than falling out of love with you

'Cause our love was a gift from the heights of heaven

And this is a bottomless well

That my heart fell into when yours let it go

And reaches still to that heaven that's turned now to hell.

❤

©by Voo Shining Stone

Sept 27, 2020

Mountains Of The Moon

A Little Bit Yours

 

THE OFFERING

THE OFFERING 

  I MOVE-----------------------

ONE TENTATIVE FINGER AT A TIME

SLOWLY---------------------

UNTIL MY FINGERS COME TOGETHER

AND FORM A BOWL IN THE PALM OF MY HAND

AND IN MY PALM APPEARS AN OFFERING: MY HEART

I REACH----------------------

ONE HEARTBEAT AT A TIME

SLOWLY--------------------

UNTIL MY HAND COMES TO REST

IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES

AND I SEE THAT YOU SEE.

I WAIT------------------------

AFRAID TO BREATHE,

 AFRAID TO MOVE, AFRAID TO SPEAK

I STAND--------------------

WAITING AN ETERNITY

FOR YOUR ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION

OF THIS, MY HEART

MY PRECIOUS OFFERING, MY ONLY GIFT

WORTHY OF ONE LIKE YOU.

I SMILE---------------------

FOR YOU REACH FORTH YOUR HAND

 AND TAKE MY HAND

IN YOURS

AND WITHOUT MOVING YOUR EYES FROM MINE

YOU PLACE MY PALM AGAINST YOUR LIPS

AND KISS IT

THEN PLACING IT AGAINST YOUR CHEST

UPON YOUR HEART

YOU ACCEPT MY OFFERING

AND WITH PURE LOVE SHINING IN YOUR EYES

YOU EXTEND YOUR HAND TO ME

AND THERE I SEE IN THE BOWL OF YOUR PALM

THE HEART I DESIRE ABOVE ALL THINGS

I CLASP IT TO MY OWN

AND MELTING INTO YOUR STRONG ARMS

AND EYES---------------------

WE BECOME ONE

IN ETERNITY.

©by Voo
Some time ago

Native American love songs to play with write
      Heart Taker by John Trudell R.I.P.

one of the greatest spoken word poets of all time!!!!!  

Across My Heart by John Trudell

       and my favorite****>>>

                        Raptor by John Trudell

  (the world's sexiest song)

Saturday Night at Voo's House...back in the day....When Crazy was Real, Ya'll!

Voo.....aka The Pink Lady aka Madonna

aka The Girl Who Had No Buttons

Get This Party Started!

                                       Yes, every Saturday was Halloween at Voo's house

Costumes were not only encouraged but required

Neighborhood girls frequently raided my closets, much to their

mothers' chagrin. We were a glamorous lot! Sometimes we did shows

and photo shoots on the front lawn (and caused many car wrecks.)

"I can't tell you how many times I heard mothers screaming

at their kids across the street "Get in that house and change your clothes!!!

You look like a bunch a hookers!!!!"

No...they looked like me....Voo, the Diva.  sigh

                                   **Their moms preferred them to dress like this

but....you know...girls will be girls

and they all wanted to be me, apparently.
👼

Me in my 14 and one half minutes of fame

Various people who showed up on Saturday nights

The Saturn guy. nobody knew his name...

Bruce in disguise

anybody here remember Bruce?

Mr T as a child

Lenny and Chad

T-Wayne, the non-Jewish wannabe rapper

who could only rap in hillbilly and Hebrew

(so sad)

👀👀

 Risky Rusty Rusky from Australia

my partner in poetic crime

and inventor of Ear Socks and other ridiculous fashions

that never caught on......

These two shall forever remain anonymous

                                          Hey, those are My pajamas!!!!

The non famous painting of a famous painter

painting a semi famous infamous Voo who has since become

relatively famous in some infamous parts of the internet

and/ or other known and unknown parts of the galaxy.....

and asylum waiting rooms everywhere!!!

                                      I had my Marilyn Monroe phase too.

For years, people would stop when I was outside and ask for Marilyn's

autograph till they realized that she was dead. But my house was

a real life haunted house so I just signed as "Marilyn Monroe's Ghost"

Women scorned but guys loved me....

I kept the neighbors entertained. Once I invited some people over for a barbecue/get together in my back yard. I got everything set up and went to take a shower and get dressed and when I came back outside to see if anyone had shown up yet......there were about 300 people out there!!!! Not one inch of the lawn was un- covered by people, blankets or lawn chairs!!!! I was stunned!!! I didn't even know half of them! That party is still talked about till this day!!! Even some local celebrities showed up! And some infamous YouTube stars that I will not mention at this time.......

 

Smitty, Bear, Kristoff and LeeNut

(That's my buddy Smitty with the rose in his hair)

completely insane guy...once set his own eyebrows

on fire just for a laugh....

Impromptu concert and runway modeling........
followed by the traditional eating of the pizza
and daring Smitty to do something outrageous...
(Not that he ever needed encouraging to do something
outrageous) Usually all of his "Hey, Ya'll, watch this!"
was followed by our "Oh, my God!!! Is he dead!!!?")

He once went to a party with me with all his clothes on
backwards......people were so confused all night....
(And it was darned hard to button up his collar and tie
his tie down his back, let me tell you....!!!)

Once he went to an event with me and Chris, my girlfriend
and we had to stop for gas on the way. I had my fur coat
in my car and he was in the other car with Chris. As we girls 
were pumping the gas for both cars, he put on my fur coat
and a hat and pretended he was our "pimp" and was
ordering us around and yelling that we were too slow
and  wasting time when we could be making him money!!!
We were so embarrassed because it drew a crowd....
but we got our revenge later when we took him out in the woods
and pistol whipped him, took all his money and put him out
in the Red Light district which we thought was appropriate.......
wearing one sock and shoe and  no shirt and with 

SUPER PIMP written on his chest in magic marker....

(not really) (maybe) (I ain't sayin')
more on Smitty later........

Voo braids guy's hair into multicolored curly things.....

After too many Purple Passion drinks on the part of both parties...

they could never get them out and eventually they

had to be surgically removed......

Prince makes an unexpected surprise visit.....

He said Paisley Park had gotten much too

boring for him and he had heard about

Voo's Place and came to check it out....

He did four numbers and told me what they all meant in morse code

I helped him write his next album
which has not been released yet so stay tuned....Oops!
One number we co-wrote was called Voo Voo's Voo Oodle Doo
He said it was pretty delirious and was going to have to tweak it
down .........alas..!!!! It's somewhere in his vault...
along with a picture of me wearing something.....
purple..............(Or maybe he took it with him, who knows? May he R.I.P.)

💜💜💜💜

One Saturday night, I threw a surprise wedding

on my lawn. It was 32 degrees that night and 81

the next day.....The preacher (a friend of mine)

offered us a hundred dollars to call it off till

it got warmer.....we refused......It was a magical

night. (cost me $2000.00 to decorate the lawn plus

wedding cake, etc but it was worth it)

(true story)

One night three adorable little elves showed up

and sang me carols till I was forced to turn the water

hoses on them and run them away. (They looked

suspiciously like me which was all the more upsetting)

Especially when I remembered that winter when my dad

got lost at the North Pole and didn't get back home till  Spring)

Oh, now that makes sense!!!!! For their last number, 

they did Papa Was a Rolling Stone....I thought that was

odd.........but now......hmmmmm I remember Mama

never celebrated Christmas after that with her

usual enthusiasm....

Joe Joe, one of my occasional Saturday night guests 
trying to hitch a ride to my house............(I told him he might

have better luck if he would just leave the axe at home

but he said it was given to him by his cousin Lizzie and that

he would not part with it) (But he cuts wood for my fireplace

for free so I don't complain much) (Except I no longer have a fireplace)

Joe Joe's favorite song....Let's Go Crazy

That shameful, it will go down in history night
when we all got pickled on Purple Passion
and decided to dye one another's hair and miscellaneous
other parts of our anatomies.....PURPLE!!!!!
I was 19, I had an afro....I loved Purple Rain by Prince
so I thought.....why not??? It seemed like a perfectly logical
thing to do at the time..........

   

                          

Then there was the night we instituted a dress code
for all the cats in my neighborhood............
The only feline that co-operated was this little guy
named Billy........
Who was ganged up on later by the rebellious
cats who could not be swayed by promises of 
Meow Mix and cat toys....
SO.........We just held them hostage and dressed 
them up like paper dolls and set them loose 
to explain why they came home wearing tutus
and little tiaras.....It was hilarious!!!
I LOVE CATS!!!!!
But my slogan has always been:
What's the use in having a cat if you can't torment it?? lol
Fair is fair, cats love to torment us......

Omar who came to love his Mickey Mouse ears.....

poor Chloe......she hated my guts.......

And here's Baby.....in her knee socks and 
Strawberry Shortcake bonnet.....

yes, it's true, I had a Groucho fetish.......sigh

and Homer...who hated wearing dresses, 
pajamas, shoes, and also the name Homer.....

LeeNut goes full blown Groucho Marx
one Saturday night. My house was always 
full of kids, friends, relatives and
people I didn't even know.......it
was the place to be. I miss those days.

(me sitting on porch of my former house)

The house is gone now. All that remains

are the front steps that lead to...Nowhere!

(And the cemetery, of course) Lots of memories, pets

and former lovers there, alas!  sigh  I mean...not!)

You don't even want to know...........
and I don't want to tell you EVER!!!............lol

Baby Two Hats

(yes, we even dressed up the children!!!!

omg, the poor children!!!!)

Baby Two Hats
(Little Laughing Pony)
the little Indian boy
who has now gone to the other side
and become a cowboy........

😄😄

Jethro the Cat who Sat.......
like a person
and supervised our parties
from under the safety of a table.

now......let's do it!!! Let's be....

Bustin Loose, ya'll

I Can Make You Dance

(I'll put Hot Sauce in your pants)

Lean On Me...The Raisins

*************DISCLAIMER*************

Not everything stated here is 100% true

(some things are 200% true)

Some things have been toned down

but I have repented so it's all good.

(However, I am still 750% CRAZY!!!!)

FYI ladies.......