Elvis Quotes

          America........

Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to driving a Cadillac overnight

       . I didn’t know what I wanted to do as a kid. But I used to pray to God that I’d amount to               something some day. I never dreamed that something like this would happen.

• Just because you look good don’t mean you feel good.

• Folks always look good in their coffins. 

• The most beautiful thing in the world to me is a baby lookin’ as pretty as her mama 

• It’s not how much you have that people look up to you it’s who you are. 

• I never believed that anything was a coincidence. There’s a reason for everything that happens dreams tells us that we’ve got to be smart enough to interpret

• When you let your head get too big it’ll break your neck.

• A person’s eyes tell you more that their words I’m sort of getting tired of being Elvis Presley.

• The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image

• The world is more alive at night, it’s like God ain’t looking. I don’t believe that death is the end. 

• You can’t breathe or even go to the bathroom without them knowin’ about it. 

• I never hated anything so much in my life as I have the army. It’s an excellent experience.
  It let’s you find out how other people think and live. 

• Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth 

• People who read sex into my music have dirty minds.

• I’ve always lived a straight, clean life.

• I don’t set any kind of bad example. My music appeals to teenagers because it’s strongly emotional. 

• When rock-n-roll dies out another type of emotional music is going to take its place.

• Then I can sit on my back porch at Graceland and remember the good ol’ days. 

• I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God.
  I don’t believe I’d sing the way I do if God hadn’t wanted me to. 

• Music should be something that makes you gotta move inside and outside
  Music is like religion when you experience them both it should move you Rock and Roll music 

• I don’t think it’ll ever die completely out because they’re gonna have to get something mighty good to take its place. 

• My songs are a way of caressing people with my voice 

• I like acting better that I do TV because if you goof in a movie you can go back and take it over. 

• Hollywood had lost sight of the basics. They’re a lot of fancy talkers who like to pigeonhole you. 

• Only the only thing worse than watchin’ a bad movie is bein’ in one. 

Talent is bein’ able to sell what you’re feeling.

Coffey Anderson

I love this guy!!!!

omg!!!

ooh baby

Nothing Else Matters

 

The Evanescence of Love In The Year 2020

 

The Evanescence of Love

 In The Year 2020

Ethereal, though it was

In every way

Every day, it became

More and more eternal in it's scope

Everlasting, as it were

Even to the eyes of everyone else.

I admit, in terms of eternity

Few things last, most expire

In the exhalation of a breath

Or the exploration of the unknown

Everything but true love

Especially true love

Whatever that might be in terms of explanation.

But I saw in your expressive eyes

The ephemeral asking to become more permanent,

More tangible, more set in stone,

More inexhaustible and undeniable

And I stopped where I stood

And pondered upon the matter, expressed by your eyes

Yet unspoken by your mouth.

But upon the taking of my lips by yours,

All doubt fled away

And in your eager embrace

I found an earnestness and existence I had not known

But had extensively sought all my days.

The clouds eavesdropped upon us

And the sun smiled effervescently

Dropping sunshine like raindrops

On our enchanted faces

As love enveloped us, enclosed us, in it's arms.

And thus, we existed in this happy place,

This eloquent place, this place of elation,

Electric kisses and unexpected bliss

Looking forward to the expanding horizons

That predicted and predicated no earthly ending.

But alas! The unforseen arose

With storm filled skies and thunder in the air

And things that had been solid before

Seemed liquid now

Seemed to be inconstant and indefinable

No longer eternal but temporal.

For even the Earth is a temporary thing

If you think about it

Volcanoes and earthquakes can burn it to ash

And crush it to dust

Bodies can die and spirits, vacate.

But oh, the shock of losing love!

Having something seemingly solid

Turn back to ethereal wishes of the mind, 

No longer even ephemeral......

But merely evanescent, fleeting,

Like the glimpse of a rainbow in the mist

And the extinguishing of a dream

In the blink of an eye

Evanescent.

My Immortal by Evanescence

violib cover by Lindsay Stirling

©By  Voo Shining Stone

Aug 21, 2020

11 p.m.

You Don't Know What Love Is

 

You Don't Know What Love Is

You don't know what pain is

Till your heart's been sliced in two

You don't know what tears are

Till it's turned your brown eyes blue

You don't know how rain stings

Till it's rained inside your heart

You don't know how wholeness feels

Till your soul's been ripped apart.

You don't know, will never know

How my love cries out to you

You, who left me easily

And never loved me true.

You don't know the sunshine

For you never liked the day

You only liked the midnight

When your love came out to play

Look at me. Look at me, boy!

See the heartbreak in my eyes

See the longings I still have for you

Though you only gave me lies

If I could hear just one sweet word

It would mend my heart, I think

But our love was like the Titanic

Doomed, destined to sink

You look at me and wink your eye

Like it's all a silly game

You say you miss me and mentally thumb

Your black book for my number and name

"Oh, sweet girl!" you say and give me a whirl

In the rain on the street by the tree

Where our lips first touched and I loved you so much

When you carved that big heart there for me

And I think of the day when like school children at play

We yelled "She's my love and I am just his!"!

But to a scoundrel you turned and my heart crashed and burned

Realizing that you don't know what love is.

©by Voo Shining Stone

1/2021

Dark Corridor

Dark Corridor

Walking down the long dark corridor

That is my life

So pitch black I can barely see

My past, let alone my future

I feel my way along the walls

Touch the crooked framed photographs

Hanging there, attempt to straighten them

And then stop; the effort is too much.

Where is that famous corner

I’ve heard so much about?

The one that everything wonderful

Is just around? The one you’re never

Supposed to give up on because

Just around that proverbial corner

It’s always Christmas and the presents

Are already unwrapped.

I’ve never found that corner

And I’ve almost stopped looking

I’m so used now to stumbling in the dark

Feeling my way along these walls

Touching the scant happy memories

Spaced apart like seasons, always askew

Always off, like the segments in a dream

That you want to hold onto after waking.

Once, a light tore it’s way through unexpectedly

And it almost blinded me

I don’t know where it came from

I’ve never known where it came from

And to this day I cherish the gift of it

Even though it was soon taken away

And the darkness seemed even darker then

Than it had before.

The light had been love

And the love had been light

And it had shone on me and lit me from within

And made me beautiful

For the short time that I stood there in it’s glow

Then it faded away and left me with these pictures

Framed memories, really, that I can no longer see

But only feel as I make my way haltingly

Down the corridor that is my life.

©by  Voo

July 31, 07

midnight

The Man That You Are

The Man That You Are

I don't know how to tell you this

Or even how to start

My mind is telling me to stop

So I'll listen to my heart.

You inserted yourself into my life

In a quiet, friendly way

Encouraging me to think more of myself

And adding some cheer to my day.

I didn't quite know what to think of you

You were different from all other men

So encouraging and kind with a deep profound mind

Looking forward and not where you'd been.

You seemed to be a wise man

And loyal, sweet and true

You broke down my walls of  dark mistrust

And became my own "Guru."

But though I know you by your spirit

Mysterious you have remained

And I have come to this conclusion

That life minus you would just not be the same.

With you, I became my truest self

And not the woman I portray

To friends and family and fans

And passers-by throughout my day.

With you, I let my heart run free

Let down my hair and bare my soul

My wild and crazy, loving heart

That you make me feel is made of gold.

I like the me you saw in me

Unlike the me I always felt

Was inferior and nothing special

And doomed to play the cards life dealt.

I've seen your face a thousand times

On internet and laptop screens

That little "Mona Lisa" smile

That haunts me even in my dreams.

And I've done things with you in dreams

That I haven't done as yet for real

 Because you've taught me to let go

And go with what I want to feel.

I've been so shut off from the world

From life in general and from myself

Compartmentalized all parts of me

Till I didn't know what parts were left.

You took a frightened little girl

Who hid in books and poems and prose

And brought the woman out in me

That blossomed like your red, red rose.

And though I may not ever see

You near me as you dwell so far

I want to tell you here and now

That I love you for the man you are.

And the man you are is wonderful

And the man you are is great

And the man you are is heaven-sent

And so worth a long, long wait.

I don't know how I know you

I just know I've always known

And that when I first looked in your eyes

My heart felt it was home.

I know I shouldn't tell you this

I think you'll be quite caught off guard

But I have to tell you how I feel

Which for me, is very hard.

But I hope you take these words to heart

And know you are my shining star

And where ever you go in this life, you'll know

That I really do love the man that you are.

©by Voo

February 13, 2019

10:53 p.m.

  

      

Rainy Night in Georgia

 

Unfriending....the early years...............

 

Your Sweetness

Your SweetnesS

The sweetness of the honey comb
Belongs to you and you alone
The ribbons in the purpled sky
Draw from the flashes of your eyes
The fragrance of the love you give
It makes me long and love to live
The passion of the quickening vein
Makes me both mad and yet so sane
The wildness of the joy within
Is blessed with sacred, touched with sin
The hungry mouth, the thirsting lips
The undulating dancing hips
The feet that bring you close to me
Take you away, too far to see
And yet the tears upon my face
Your tender fingertips erase
With each new breath, resuscitate
My ebbing flow, impending fate
Give back to me the meaning of
My need to be, my life, my love
You are the maestro of every band
The world's director with your hand
The writer of each song you choose
Each line of poetry and it's muse
You are my waking and my sleep
Wading shallow to dig for deep
The discovering scientist, the conquerer, bold
The alchemist that makes the gold
The royalty upon the throne
That reigns this heart once made of stone
This heart now pliable in your care
That feels the love that wasn't there
That knows the difference of lie and true
Now that I know.... the truly you
My Atlas, lifter of my head
When once I thought all my dreams dead
The bright sunshine with taste of night
The darkness dancing with the light
The musical laugh, the mischieveous hint
That rarely discloses the secret intent
But teases without mercy as you're feigning such meekness
And drowns me in love in your oceans of sweetness.

©by Voo

11/10/19

3:56 a.m.

You are the sweetness and the joy...........

I'm So Excited

Beginnings and Endings

 Beginnings And Endings

In the end there is nothing but beginnings

In the beginning there are oh, so many ends

In the the between times there are comings and there's goings

Thoughts of where you're going to and where you've been.

In the between times life finds loving and finds loathing 

Finds hearts broken and hearts about to break

There are times love finds a true heart full of pure gold

But most times just empty mines not worth the stake.

Life and love are interwoven like the poet and the poem

Like the midnight and the moon, each loved and lover  

Endless endings and beginnings, in betweens, dances and dreams

Knowing one alone is naught without the other. 

©by Voo Shining Stone

Feb 14, 2022

12:25 a.m.

Raining On The Night Train

 

Raining On The Night Train

It was raining on the night train

As it hustled through the dark

Taking me away from sorrow

Moving closer to your heart

For so long, I’d lived without you

Missed the sweetness of your smile

Till I thought I’d just go crazy

Unless I spent a little while

In those arms so tightly muscled

In those eyes that drew me in

In those hands that felt like velvet

Saintly, with a touch of sin

I couldn’t stand it any longer

Called your number, found you home

Heard that voice so full of hunger

Say “Baby Girl, I’m all alone”

So I hurried, caught the last train

Watched the rain the whole night through

Wondering what I’d say at long last

When I laid my eyes on you

©by Voo

July 2, 07

midnight

click on link for spoken word version

https://soundcloud.com/user-780266601/raning-on-the-night-train3-0

If You Could Read My Mind, Love....etc

           

My Videos

 

Video I made of me and my friends making a recording
in J.T.'s home studio...........
It turned out better than this video but this was
fun to make. 
The radioactive pair singing is me and Chuck. Several shots of Linda
and J.T. and miscellaneous pics of people I do not know
but thought were funny.....
Filmed in upstate New York.
They recorded over 30 songs, some of which I wrote.

This is me and my best buddy/prayer partner
Chuck as seen in the video. We are singing
a song I wrote at a church we used to go to