The Eagle Is In Flight w spoken version

The Eagle Is In Flight

The eagle is in flight, he said

And it made my heart beat so

I wanted to catch him in my arms

And never let him go.

The dream caster from beyond the sea

Is casting out his net

Trying to snare a treasure there

The one he's never met.

He needs her sweet and soothing voice

To whisper in his ears

To placate his need for wanderlust

And calm his waking fears.

The games afoot but what a game!

That only two may play

Dancing in the cosmic realms

That knows not night or day.

But every hour is torturous

And every second, sin

When they can't touch what they need so much

A beginning and an end.

An ending of the longing

A beginning of the joy

As each has sought what can't be bought

Since they've been that girl and boy.

His prayers are filled with her dark eyes

Her eyes are filled with tears

Crying rain down on his soul

So arid now for years.

How do you feel without a touch?

How do you love a ghost?

How do you see with eyes wide shut

What can't be seen by most?

I do not know these answers

I do not understand

I only know I want him so

This wild and wondrous man.

The one I've named The Eagle

This magic man of dust

I dream to meld myself with him

And somehow know I must.

For if  can't, the day will come

As I hunger for his kiss

That all of me will melt away

Like the early morning mist.

And I'll hang there in the midnight

Just a pair of weeping eyes

Spectral form without hands and arms

To hold him when he cries.

The eagle is in flight, he said

I'm soaring or'er the sea

And oh, God, I pray, let this be the day

That he finds his way to me.

©By Voo Shining Stone

at one minute to midnight

spoken version

Just Another Day

 

Lean On Me

Too Cold To Feel The Fire

 

🔥Too Cold To Feel The Fire🔥

Fire lives in me

It always has........

Even though I love the rain

🔥

But some people only want the rain

And run to it

When fire comes near

🔥

Their hearts are cold

Perpetually cold

Though their facades portray a warmth

🔥

I've never understood that

The attraction of fire to water

The pull of warm to cold

🔥

But that's the way it sometimes goes

In life, in weather,

In love

🔥

Some, maybe most

Crave the heat and the flame

And the passion that blazes

🔥

Some, maybe most

Of the loves of my life

Ran to, then away from my fire

🔥

Their hearts, I thought warm

All too soon turned to ice

Ice, that my heart couldn't melt

🔥

A conundrum is a puzzling word

But apropos of love

For love is this and love is that

🔥

And one would think that love's a liar

For my love burns hot but always falls

For those hearts too cold to feel the fire.

🔥

©By Voo Shining Stone

1/18/2021

My Darling Among Them Devils a song

My Darling Among Them Devils....a nutty song written on myspace for a guy

My Darling Among Them Devils

Let's see: Verse 1

Oh, my darling went north one dark cloudy day

To work with the yankees and such

To work in the factory to make us some money

And oh, Lord, I miss him so much.

Verse 2

Now, we've been a living with his momma and daddy

For nigh on about thirteen years

And we dream of having our own little trailer

But he never could find a job here.

Chorus

Oh, darling, my darling among all them devils

Up there in the cold all alone

Don't let them yankees change you, little darling

Work hard and then hurry on home.

Verse 3

Down here in the South, we're so loving and giving

Up there in the North, I've heard tell

That all of them yankees are cold hearted strangers

And most of them came straight from hell.

Verse 4

Your momma has baked you a big ole opossum

Your daddy has brewed you some "shine"

We miss you so much, dear, down here in the holler

Tell them yankee gals you are mine!

Chorus

Oh, darling, my darling among all them devils

Up there in the cold all alone

Don't let them yankees change you, little darling

Work hard and then hurry on home.

spoken sad part:

Oh, darlin', my darlin', among all them devils

A drankin' and livin carefree

Send me your paycheck or you'll find, little darlin

That they aint half as devilish as me.....

©by Voo

July 27, 07

1:16 a.m. 

 

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words

A thousand words

On twenty-five balled up pieces of paper later

I still have no idea how to say

What needs to be said

What should have been said

A hundred heartbreaks ago.

It 's just so hard

To find the words to properly convey

A tender farewell

A loving tone and a gentle goodbye

That will not wound

Someone already walking wounded.

I start and stop

Rewrite a refrain, revise an old rhyme

Throw in some honkey tonk lyrics

Soften it all with some bubblegum pop

And images of violins playing softly in the background.

I don't know why I bother

You would only sneer at the above stanza

It's heavy metal and anarchist beats you love

Punk rock so loud your eardrums bleed

And anything to do with pain. Especially mine.

See how my little hands shake?

I can hardly hold a pencil

I can barely see to write

My eyes are black, my soul is bruised

And I sit here trying not to hurt you.

If I could talk, I wouldn't

For that only makes you mad

Only makes you crazy..er than usual

When you walk through the door

Hell bent for hating and still needing love.

I don't know what happened to you

To make you be this way

To make you into a hollow man

But I've got to find a way to go

Before there's no me left.

I hear your footsteps now

Coming up the stairs

Hear you rehearsing new slurs

That you haven't used yet

Though their cold jagged points

 Have already hit home.

I hide the balls of paper

Underneath the bed

Throw the pencil into a drawer

Brush the tears from my cheeks

And turn up the corners of my mouth into a hideous smile

As you and your pain walk into the room.

A thousand words

Form in my brain

A thousand words stick on my tongue

I look at you and remember how you used to be

Before you let down your guard and took off your mask

You look so alone, so small and alone

But tomorrow, for sure, I'm writing that letter.

©by Voo

May 25, 08

1:58 a.m. 

Pillow Talk

 

Pillow Talk

We said our good-nights

And turned our backs

But the love refused to let us go

And slowly, without forethought,

We curled back into the form of one

Arms and legs entwined, so close

We could not then tell you from me

On the softness of the pillow's silk

We spoke in hushed lullabies

To one another's hearts

Feeling newly born like children

That have discovered 

Something magical,

Something enchanting

And cannot put it away and go to sleep.

Let's play some more............

©by Voo

April 18, 2017

8:22 p.m.

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When It Comes To Love

 

yes, yes, yes!

 Got to meet and sing these songs along with this wonderful man and singer.

Will never forget that night. You rock, Bryan!!!!

Some of My Old Homemade Videos...omg cheesy

 

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

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Nothing Rhymed Today

Nothing Rhymed Today

Nothing rhymed today

There was no meter or melody

No singing lyric or verse of song

Just jangled nerves and unspoken fears

Left dangling on my key chain.

Cars passed me

In the pouring rain

And never acknowledged the girl

With the gas can and the thumb

And the mascara running down my face.

I could have shown some leg

I suppose

But my clothes were plastered to me

Like I had been poured into them

And everything I had was exposed already.

If it had been yesterday

I would have laughed at my mishap

Run down the highway

Danced in the rain and stopped traffic

With the glow on my shining face.

Everything rhymed yesterday

Every word that issued from my mouth

Was finely tuned, in perfect key

Poetry sprang from my fingertips

And car horns sounded like sonnets.

But I have no music left in me

It walked out in your suitcase last night

Winked it's dark eye and said goodbye

And I heard it laughing

All the way down the staircase to the street.

Poetry is a traitor

It makes you write when you don't want to

From places you don't want to revisit

Sing songs so sad they break the heart

And make rhymes of things that will never rhyme again.

©by Voo

August 8, 07

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Only Lonely....A Disjointed Discourse at Four In The Morning

Only Lonely song

Hootie and The Blowfish

......Only Lonely.......

A Disjointed Discourse

At Four In The Morning

The clock ticks

Resounding reverberations mocking

Each tick like a heart beat

While silver stars made of dust

Are dancing in the moonlight

Streaming through cloudy windows

Onto the floor

Where I lie curled into a little ball 

Of hurt.

It's a quarter past four

A wine glass overturned,

Spills garnet red onto the polished wood

Inching slowly toward a book of poetry

That you gave me

When you met me

When you liked me

When you loved me.

A sudden wind visits

And rakes a wayward limb

Against the roof

A dog howls

A cat yowls

An owl awakens

And surveys his surroundings

And goes back to watchful sleep.

I wonder why I'm lying there

On the floor

In the dark

Covered only by my raven dark hair

And the blanket of moonlight

That rests upon

My flesh and form.

And then I remember

And I touch my wet face

And taste the wine on my tongue,

Push the book away from disaster

And upright

The crystal flute

Lying in it's wasted sea of Merlot.

Go away, teardrops! 

Run away, heartache!

Move along, memories!

Nothing to see here!

We've all seen this scene before.

Through season

Storm and sunny day

Since fate and luck

Took love away

Since all my hopes of loving you

And all my dreams did not come true.....

(Hey, I made a rhyme! I wrote a poem!)

We've been here before

This floor and I

Moonlight bathed

Tears in my eye

Wine and poetry in my hand

Longing for a loveless man.

There's nothing here

Stars haven't seen

Nothing here or in-between

Nothing, nothing

But the sound

Of clocks that tick,

Tears falling down.

I am not dying

I am not dead

Not intoxicated

In my head

I am not crazy

I'm still quite sane

I still have thoughts

Within my brain

But I hurt, I hurt

I miss, I miss

Your hard embrace,

Your tender kiss.......

Sigh

I stand now, stumbling

Holding onto empty air

For a moment, I almost call your name

But I catch myself

And stop myself

From making an even bigger fool

 Of my foolish self.

Up the stairs I climb

Very slowly....

Because I do not want

To fall into that empty bed

With it's pillows

Still indented

And scented

By your head.

The moonlight trails me

And lights the way

Glinting off your pictures lining the walls,

Our pictures,

Filled with happy smiles 

And anticipations

That never came to be.

Look at you there 

In the shadows, hiding

Hurtful things

In the corners of your eyes

Waiting to rob me like a midnight thief.

I will never let you see

How your leaving left me

Only the moon and the stars

Will know the pain that I feel 

Your love was not real

Nor were your smiles, so seductive

That they made me believe

That you were loving me only.

Tomorrow will be a new day

As this night fades into light

Not all nights are this bad

Not all days are this sad

In the morning I'll be almost alright

Tonight I'm

 Only lonely.

 

©by Voo Shining Stone 

10/1/2020