The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: 2025

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Earthly Creatures

Earthly Creatures

We are earthly creatures

Marked by life

And slowed

By death.

We are lifted

By love

And downed

By reality.

Our lives

Are long walks

Through deserts

Interspersed with an oasis or two.

Friends are roses

Blooming along

The gray roadsides

That we stumble upon.

And families

Are usually people

That start out as friends

And end up as strangers.

Such is life

This thing we must do

As we search for meaning

And solace in the storm.

If true love comes

It comes as a surprise

And like children, we, without thought

Rip open the packages.

The roads wind through mountains

And our eyes are darkened

By tears and rain and loss

And brightened in the moments of sunshine.

We are creatures

Like no others

We are not animals

No matter if we live like they.

We are men

Who walk upright

And seek to rise

While falling down.

And if, at the end of it all

We are counted worthy

To be adopted by heavenly creatures

We will adapt, though it will be hard, to joy.

©by Voo

05/10/08

1:24 a.m.

Sometimes When It Rains......

by Secret Garden
please play with poem.....

Dances With Birds

Standing in the kitchen this afternoon
Wearing nothing but a white cotton T shirt
That barely covered the imagination
(It's 116 in the shade, dammit!)

I was making a chef salad
And pouring myself a tall glass of lemonade
When from outside my window
I heard the scream of a bird
So loud and startling I almost said a bad word
What on earth was that? I thought
And finished the slicing and dicing,
Wiped my hands and pulled back the curtain.

The bird stood there on the driveway
It's wings held up in the air
In a kind of ecstasy
It's head raised up to the sky
It's little feet doing an impromptu
Crazy birdfolk dance
Paying no attention to anyone or any thing
It screamed again, not a bird sound
(Definitely not a bird sound.)

But then I noticed that all around the critter
Fell big fat liquid drops of rain
Rain!
Real ThankGodAlmightyLetItRain rain!
Like we haven't seen in weeks
That we've needed here more than gold.

And I realized
That the bird was screaming in joy
Pure unadulterated joy
No one will believe this I said out loud
But who cares?
I dropped the curtain,
Took a big long drink of lemonade,
Looked around to see if the neighbors
Were watching......stepped outside....
And joined him in the dance.

Too Hot by Kool and the Gang

©By Voo
Aug 20, 07
4:30
based on a true event

It Feels Like Rain

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Keep Your Head Up

Monday, August 4, 2025

The World According To Al too funny (and clean)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5keq-OI0vPk

the only clean, wildly entertaining Big Foot vlog on You Tube)

Bigfoot Al, wildlife expert

https://www.youtube.com/@AWorldAccordingToAI
more of his videos, some vlogs by others are just too dirty....

Sunday, July 27, 2025

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Friday, July 25, 2025

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Monday, July 21, 2025

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Lost At Sea

LOST AT SEA

I looked for you again today

Out on the sea down by the bay

I called your name into the sky

But only storm clouds passed me by.

The ships had come from journeys long

To bring their sailors back to home

To bring the weary home from sea

But there was no one there for me.

I gathered roses red and sweet

To make a carpet for your feet

I wrote a song to sing aloud

But could not find you in the crowd.

I walked for hours on the shore

Till I could see the sea no more

I watched the sunset turned to blood

And drown in midnight's darkened flood.

My roses wilted in my hands

And scattered there upon the sands

As tears afresh sprang from my eyes

I shook to clear my head of lies.

And turned for home, that lonely place

Devoid of love and of your face

That sailor's face who loves the sea

Who loves it so much more than me.

©by Voo

March 7, 2005

2 a.m.

painting by Winslow Homer

SHIPWRECKED BY SHANE ALEXANDER

The song that inspired the poem

SHADOWLING

Celtic music

SHADOWLING

DOWN IN THE MEADOW WHERE THE WHIPPOORWILL CALLS
AND THE WEEPING WILLOWS GROW
THE MOON STAYS FULL MOST EVERY NIGHT
AND THE GOBLIN WINDS DOTH BLOW.

THERE IS A SHADOWLING BOY, THEY SAY
LIVING IN THAT PLACE
THEY'VE HEARD HIM LAUGH AND SEEN HIS TRACKS
THOUGH NONE HAVE SEEN HIS FACE.

UP ON THE ROOF IN MIDNIGHT'S DARK
DOWN BY THE WISHING WELL
THEY SAY HE HAUNTS THE VILLAGE GREEN
THEY SAY HE COMES FROM HELL.

WHEN MISCHIEF IS DONE, THEY SAY HE'S THE ONE
WHEN SOMETHING IS FOUND AMISS
THEY SAY HE'S TO BLAME, THOUGH NONE KNOW HIS NAME
AND I'VE COME TO INQUIRE ABOUT THIS.

FOR MANY MOONS, I'VE SEARCHED THE MEADOWS
THE FOREST AND THE TREES
AND CALLED FOR HIM, THE SHADOWLING BOY
BUT NO ANSWER HAS COME FOR ME.

I BROUGHT HIM ROSES FOR PRESENTS
AND BREAD THAT I BAKED MYSELF
AND WHEN I TURNED 'ROUND AT THE WISP OF A SOUND
THERE WASN'T A CRUMB OF IT LEFT.

ONE NIGHT IN THE STORM AS I STOOD BY THE BROOK
AS THE DAY FADED INTO TOMORROW
I THOUGHT I HEARD A LOW, LONELY CRY
AND I THOUGHT I FELT HIS SORROW.

IN THE LIGHTNING STRIKE, I SAW A SHADOW
AND THE SHADOW STOOD ALONE
I REACHED MY HAND OUT TO THE GHOST
BUT IN THE NEXT BREATH IT WAS GONE.

THE PEOPLE SAY HE'S EVIL
AND MALEVOLENT AND MEAN
BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO JUDGE
SOMEONE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN.

THE SHADOWLING BOY IS A FABLE, SOME SAY
AND OTHERS SAY, A MYTH
BUT I THINK HE'S REAL, IN MY HEART, I CAN FEEL
HE'S THE ONE THAT I WANT TO BE WITH.

I'LL SEARCH FOR HIM AS LONG AS IT TAKES
TILL THE END HAS TAKEN OVER THE WORLD
BUT THE THING YOU DON'T SEE 'CAUSE YOU CANNOT SEE ME
IS THAT ......I AM A SHADOWLING GIRL.

©BY Voo Shining Stone
1:30 p.m.
Jan 19, 2005

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Angel

Friday, July 18, 2025

The Persuasions!!!! Grew Up Listening to these guys!!! Phenomenal!

I Could Never love Another
(my fave)

The Man in Me

Good Times

Looking For An Echo

The Sun

He Aint Heavy

Buffalo Soldier

Be Good To Me, Baby

Got To Use My Imagination

It's You That I Need

Man, oh, Man

People Get Ready

Soul To Soul

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Suddenly

Suddenly

Floating on memories like clouds

Passing by on a soft southern breeze

I suddenly saw your face in the sky above me

I lay on emerald green grass

With my arms folded behind my head

That was immediately filled with images of you

I thought I had forgotten

I had tried to foget

But there you were as you had always been

And my heart burst

And my tears flowed

And the sky smiled as I fell in love with you again.

©️by Voo Shining Stone

sometime in July 2025

Link to Aachoo Voo Serial

https://aachoovooprivateeye1940sserialstory.blogspot.com/2025/03/aachoo-voo-is-back-and-sheswell-shes.html

Friday, July 11, 2025

If Blues Is A Woman

If Blues Is A Woman

Honey, if blues, it is a woman

Well, then, heartache is a man

Can't nobody down here tell me

The devil don't have busy hands.

You see, the boys, they love to preach it

How they love us little girls

Then they love us and they leave us

Where they found us in this world.

Then they sit in bars till daylight

Talkin' how they was done wrong

Chasin' women, chasin' whiskey

Till ever drop o' love is gone.

Now, I've broke a heart or three

Had my share of dirty deals

Didn't love the one that loved me

So I know just how that feels.

But I never meant no evil

Never tried to do no bad

Made acquaintance with tha' lonely

Slept in rooms just full of sad.

Men say blues, it is a woman

Makes 'em hurt long as it can

But I say, if blues, it is a woman

Surely, heartache is a man.

I'll Take Care of You by Van Morrison

©By Voo

May 11, 09

12:43 a.m.

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