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Friday, February 24, 2023

Thursday, February 23, 2023

CAUSE WE LOVE HIM







CAUSE WE LOVE HIM



HE SENT THEM OUT, SOME TWO BY TWO
AND THEY WENT THOUGH THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
OF HIS WILL AND HIS WANT, THEY HAD BARELY A CLUE
BUT THEY WERE SENT AND THEY WENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.



THEY WENT THROUGH THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES AND THORNS

THEY WERE PELTED WITH STONES AND WERE TAUNTED BY SCORN
THEY WERE RIDICULED, MOCKED FROM THE DUSK TO THE DAWN
BUT THEY WERE SENT AND THEY WENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


MIRACLES HAPPENED AND THE CROWDS LARGE THEY GREW

HEALINGS AND DELIVERANCES AND SALVATIONS TOO
DEMONS RAN OUT WHEN THEY WERE COMMANDED TO
AND THE DISCIPLES' FAITH GREW CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


AND TIME WENT ON AND THE CHURCH GREW IN NUMBER

THERE WAS LITTLE TIME FOR SLACKING AND NO TIME FOR SLUMBER
LOST HUMANITY GOT FOUND AND THE WORLD WEPT AT THE WONDER
AND IT SPREAD ROUND THE EARTH CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


INNOCENT MEN, NEWLY FREED, NEWLY BORN

PREACHED IN THE MARKET PLACE TO THE LOW AND FORLORN
AND WALKED CARRYING THE GOSPEL TILL THEIR TIRED FEET WERE WORN
BUT THEY WALKED AND THEY TALKED CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


THEN CAME THE DAY WHEN THE LOST ONES REBELLED

AND DECIDED THEY'D RATHER CONTINUE ON INTO HELL
AND THEY SILENCED THE CHRISTIANS AND TOLD THEM NOT TO TELL
BUT THEY COULD NOT BE SILENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


AND THE WOLVES ROSE UP AND CORNERED THE SHEEP

DISPATCHED THEM AT NOONDAY AND SLAUGHTERED THEM IN THEIR SLEEP
DEVISED TORTURES ANEW TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN WEEP
BUT THEY DIED IN THEIR JOY CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


AND THROUGH THE AGES, TIME'S MARCHED ON

AND CLOSER NOW ARE WE TO HOME
THE SHEEP TO THE SHEEPFOLD, TO THE PLACE WE BELONG
WE MARCH ON AND WE FIGHT CAUSE WE LOVE HIM,


THE WORLD IS FULL OF DANGEROUS SNARES

PITS OF PERSECUTION AND COFFINS OF CARES
THE WOLVES FAR OUTNUMBER THE SHEEP HERE AND THERE
BUT THE SHEEP GIVE THEIR LIVES CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.


NOW HERE AT THE EDGE OF THE END OF ALL THINGS

WE CAN LOOK INTO HEAVEN AND BEHOLD, OUR HEARTS SING
THOUGH THE WOLVES BITE AND BRUISE US, WE WILL GIVE EVERYTHING
AND WE REGRET NOT A THING CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.







©by Voo
June 5, 2004
1:40 p.m


When You Come Back Down

 







Saturday, February 18, 2023

Stranded

 





Stranded


On an island in an ocean
Like a fish out of the sea
I am stranded like a shipwreck
With no one to rescue me.

In a desert without water
Dying slowly of my thirst
I am empty in my spirit
With my soul about to burst.

'Neath a sun that shines no warmth
And a sky bereft of star
I have no compass here to guide me
For I don't know where you are.

You have left me by the wayside
You have plunged me to despair
You have torn our bonds asunder
Left my love just standing there.

I don't know where I belong now
I can't navigate alone
There's no place to lay my head now
And no heart to call my home.

I am stranded, I am stranded
Robbed of all my joy and mirth
On an island in an ocean
On this sad and sun-less Earth.





©by Voo Shining Stone
Feb 18, 2023


Thursday, February 16, 2023

Friday Night, Corner Table

 




Friday Night,  Corner Table




Friday night
Corner table
Candlelight,
Wine,
And you.

I'm so nervous
That I'll say something
Do something
Feel something
Wrong.

But 
Your eyes 
Shine over my face
Like sparkles on the ocean
Like a man on a mission.

Cheers, you say
And I nod,
Raise my glass,
Clink and let the just brought champagne
Glide it's way down my thirsty throat.

Are you happy?
I'm caught off guard
And I blink and laugh a small laugh
As the bubbles tickle my nose
And I feel your fingers on my wrist.

The band starts,
The busboy takes the dishes away
All the while smiling
And staring at me in my sequins
And freshly curled hair.

You signal 
For more vineyard nectar
Unless you want something more potent?
You query and I shake my head
No, thank you, I've had more than enough.

I turn my chair
Towards the stage
But you catch my arm
And turn me back to you
Not yet, you say, not just yet.

And we sit there
Watching one another
Wondering in low light
Swimming in questions
Drowning in song.

After three pieces, fast and slow
The maestro stops 
Holds up his hand and says
We have a special request
From the gentleman at the corner table.

He wants to know
If the girl of his dreams,
The lovely lady with the pretty curls,
The woman that's sitting there tonight,
Will be his wife?

And I gasp
And put my hand to my mouth
As you slip a ring onto my other. Will you?
You ask with your heart in your eyes. Will you be mine? 
But I am speechless.

This was going to be our last date
I had decided. I was tired of waiting.....
Our last date. I had been trying to find the words
But if you never read this poem, I guess
That's something that you'll never know.




©by Voo
Feb 17, 08
4:45 p.m. 




                                                                 the song they were dancing to.....


                                             I  See Your Face Before Me  by Johnny Hartman....................

It Won't Be Tonight repost




Glen Hansard



It Won't Be Tonight


Standing on the precipice
That steep and craggy cliff that draws my wounded soul
I heard my heart 
             Urging me to jump......................
Whispered urging that turned to loud command
Loud command that turned to plea
That drowned out reason
                     And slowly deafened me.

I put my hands upon my ears
Senselessly
Like a blind man wearing glasses
When he has no eyes at all
Senselessly
Trying to block the scream
While begging for the fall.

I didn't want to love you
I didn't want to care............
I didn't want to see that face
That form that's standing there

I didn't want......
                     I didn't want
I didn't want your charms
            Now look at me, a tangled mess
Uncradled by your arms..............

You threw me away
          And I came back.............
I left you before you could do it again
You searched for me
                And took me home
Tell me why are we lovers
When we cannot be friends???

We can't even be in the same room
Without tearing each other apart
We love and we lust......
When we don't even trust.....
And all we do is break each other's hearts.

This need of you is madness
Why can't I let you be?
You cannot live without me
And you can't live with me.

That bed, it is our battlefield.....
For our wars.... one after the next
We love and cry
               We love and we die
For this wild and wounding sex.

And when we've licked our wounds
And mended..............
The heart bruise and the sore...
The passion that cannot be tamed
Soon calls us back for more.

And you hurt me and I hate you
                  But I love it more than life
Craving every wayward bullet......
Every slicing of the knife.

Then your dark eyes beg me to devour
As you give yourself to me
Lying helpless in your needing 
             And not wanting to be free.

We've run away so many times..... 
           Battered victims of love's thumps
 And both have stood on that precipice
                      But no one ever jumps.............

We only turn around and run back to  
  The next sweet and savage fight
            Swearing this mad love has got to end!
And knowing it won't be tonight.










©By Voo
       the mad poet
      who cannot run away.....
11/13/19

midnight

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Because Of You

 




Because of You


There are days when roses seem sweeter
The sun shines brighter
And the roads you walk on
Rise up to meet your feet and glide you along.

There are nights when the moon sings
And silver stars shoot across the celestial canvas
Birds stay up just to croon you lullabies
And the world is a sweet and jubilant place.

I never knew that place before
I never felt like I could touch the heavens
Dance on daylight and run with the rain
Until now, because now, there's you.

All you have to do is smile
All you have to do is reach
All you have to do is be
And Earth becomes Eden.

If I could write you a love song
All the lyrics would be 'you'
If I could paint portraits
All the faces would be yours.

If I could write you a book
All the stories would be unending
If I could inspire you with dreams
All the dreams would come true.

For these are the things
That you've given to me
These are the joys
That now decorate my days.

Because of you
Because of you
The sun shines brighter
Because of you.







©by Voo
Feb 24, 08




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Monday, February 13, 2023

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

Episodes of Aachoo Voo I'm moving her Blog HERE to bluevineyard for now

 


All LINKS To All Episodes of Aachoo Voo written thus far......😍🤣❤️



Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode One Side Doors And Pink Bathrobes


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Two Upper Crusty In Voo Bayou


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Three Clappsaddles and Hairy Shoes


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Four BIG d And Mr Sorryman


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Five Doctor Burr and The Dream Catcher


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Six The Impatient Patient and Grandfather Storklegs


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Seven Howdy Doody and The Guys From Homicide


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Eight Wednesday Night Conga Line


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Nine Vooey Wooey and The Insincere Blessings


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Ten D'Sal's Spice and MiMi's Naughty Pictures


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 11 Lipps (now with 99% fewer typos.......edited)


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode Twelve Thermoses Don't Just Disappear


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 13 Halloween In NYC


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 14 Stranger and Stranger Every Day


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 15...Mobsters, Moola and All That Jazz.....Another point of view


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye, Episode 16 Charm Schools and Crime Scenes All Over the Place


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 17 Playboy Thiese, Jack Knife James and the lovely Zelma Lee


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 18 The King of Things and The Butler That Didn't Do It


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye, Episode 19 Tokyo Joe and The Tale of Woe


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 20 The Blue Flame Fan Dancer and What Happened Yesterday


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 21 Solved and Unsolved Mysteries


Aachoo Voo, Private Eye: Aachoo Voo, Private Eye Episode 22 Tom B. Ozo's HAM BALL HAVEN ( Episode written while in jail)


To Be Continued............................Please leave COMMENTS








In case there are links missing up there, try here


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I Feel You

 



I Feel You


I feel you

You're out there

Wondering

Remembering

Sighing.


Thinking of the days

When I was there

Waiting

At the end of your day.


With a poem,

A song,

A bit of mischief

To make you smile.


You miss that

Don't you?

You miss it like hell

'Cause it was a little bit of heaven

Wasn't it?



©by Voo Voo

July 15, 2021




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