I am a Storyteller, first and foremost. This is my blog for poetry, prose, stories, excerpts of my novels and videos. Life poetry, prophetic poetry, poetry for all genres. I think you'll find yourself here if you read long enough.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
World Without Books
World Without Books
What would we read?
What would we write?
How would we plead
The tale of our plight?
A world without books
Would be a world without dreams
Unshared and lost
In an ocean of screams.
How would we know
How our brother man feels?
If we could not peruse
His way and his will?
How would we treasure
Another friend's heart?
If we could not read it
We'd stay miles apart.
A world without books
Would be a world without voice
We'd reason in silence
Not seeing a choice.
For books bid us "Come!"
And welcome us home
And allow us to find out
That we're not alone.
©️voo shining stone
aug 22, 08
Winding Down
Winding
Down
Every thing gets wound up in this world
Clocks, music boxes, hearts, life
It's how things work, how they run
Some times they get over-wound and break
Springs get sprung, music turns to discord
And lives come undone. I've always known that.
Still, I've reached for that key a thousand times
And turned hopefully and maybe carelessly
So, I guess that's what's happening to you and me now:
Things are just winding down
And tomorrow everything will stop.
©️by Voo Shining Stone
Aug 4, 07 2 a.m.
We Are Digital
We Are Digital
Heaven, help us
For we are digital
And do not know
How to wind a watch.
Heaven, help us
For we are spoiled
Born into electricity
And terrified of a candle's spark.
We are such driven people
Driven here, driven there
We don't know how to walk anymore
We don't know how to use our feet.
Babies come into the world
Reaching for cell phones
Knowing the words to songs we've forgotten
Dancing the latest dirty dances and old.
Heaven, help us
For we are set on automatic
We respond in kind to deadened emotions
React as our programming dictates.
Heaven, help us
For we are milk-fed, soft-handed ingrates
We think that the world owes us everything
When we haven't earned a space yet to stand.
Our lives are played out on mp3 collections
Our music lives in the pockets of our jeans
Our souls are compartmentalized, our hearts, cold machines
And our spirits are hybrid, cloned things, not of God.
What do we do then, when the lights go out?
How will we live? What will we eat?
Where will we go when they hunt us and kill us?
How will we survive when the wolves rule the streets?
Heaven, help us
For the magazines tell us
That we're destined for greatness
And the history books tell us that we're destined for doom.
Heaven, help us
For we see the armies, and not the man
We see the forests, and not the tree
We think in plural and "greater good."
Gone are the days of clear blue skies
And smog free air
Our lungs are full of chemicals
That the drug lords sprayed up there.
Tonight, I sit by candlelight, writing
Trying to put my heart on paper
For somebody to find and read when I'm gone
And I hope that they will, before it's thrown on the fire.
Somebody in an unborn generation
Will have to discover that marvelous thing all over again: Fire
It's beauty, it's warmth, it's terror
For today, even the candle lights are fake.
Tomorrow, they will build igloos
Out of unplugged microwave ovens
Sleep in old bath tubs and bathe in the streams
Tomorrow, they will not know what we took so for granted.
Heaven, help us
For we are digital
We are numbers with faces
And we walk in our sleep.
Heaven, help us
For we are blind and bereft of love
We have made a mess of this beautiful planet
Turned it into hell as you sighed from above.
©By Voo
Oct 13, 08
9 p.m.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
You Don't Know What I Know
You Don't Know What I Know
You don't know
You couldn't know
You wouldn't know
You'll never know
What I know
I know how love feels
How it just makes you reel
In that dance called confusion
Till you don't know what's real
You twirl and you whirl
Till it all starts to unfurl
I know that pain
That heart searing pain
The loss and the gain
The fumbling and stumbling
Over ghosts that remain
We never talked
You said farewell and walked
Left me there cold and stark
In a world that'd gone dark
You looked back and smiled
And I hoped for a while
But you never returned
Didn't care how I yearned
I didn't know what I'd done
I guess I'll never know
But my poor heart still follows
Everywhere that you go
There has been no reprieve
Not a single word, true
All I know is..... you'll never know
That I''m still loving you.
©by Voo Shining Stone
May 17, 2025
Now Go Fly Little Bird
Now Go fly, Little Bird
Never think that I don’t care
When I see you sitting there
All alone and lonely in the crowd
Saying nothing but talking loud.
Your eyes are full of unshed tears
Your mind is numbed by faceless fears
Your heart is shattered and locked up tight
For your pain has dimmed your spirit sight.
When I see you sitting there
All alone and lonely in the crowd
Saying nothing but talking loud.
Your eyes are full of unshed tears
Your mind is numbed by faceless fears
Your heart is shattered and locked up tight
For your pain has dimmed your spirit sight.
You think no one has seen you there
Holding nothing but your chair
You feel invisible and hard to see
But you can’t hide yourself from Me.
I know the reasons you turn away
And rush to leave when you should stay
I’ve seen your rejection from human beings
That pass you by there, never seeing.
I’ve seen the days when you reached out
When your heart was full of faith not doubt
And you believed that you belonged
But that moment in time didn’t last very long.
The doors were slammed right in your face
As you tried hard to find your place
But no matter what you did or tried
Your love and your efforts were brushed aside.
Holding nothing but your chair
You feel invisible and hard to see
But you can’t hide yourself from Me.
I know the reasons you turn away
And rush to leave when you should stay
I’ve seen your rejection from human beings
That pass you by there, never seeing.
I’ve seen the days when you reached out
When your heart was full of faith not doubt
And you believed that you belonged
But that moment in time didn’t last very long.
The doors were slammed right in your face
As you tried hard to find your place
But no matter what you did or tried
Your love and your efforts were brushed aside.
So now you come and you leave alone
No one bothers you and you speak to no one
You come seeking love and you leave finding none
And you cry out your soul in your car going home.
No one bothers you and you speak to no one
You come seeking love and you leave finding none
And you cry out your soul in your car going home.
And now you’re convinced that you’ll never feel loved
And that I’ll never give you all the things you dream of
You come to My Presence and you cry out to Me
But you really don’t believe that I even see.
But I see. But I see and I draw you to Me
And you must never think that that’s the way it should be
Isolation is dangerous and painful and bad
And I hate it when you hurt and your life is so sad.
Though eternal, immortal, I became man through birth
And even I, your Creator, had to have friends on earth
But My friends, they all left Me and some ran away
And they fell asleep when I asked them to pray.
They betrayed and disowned Me
And they left Me to die
And when I asked them to believe Me
They were too scared to try.
My family thought that I had lost My mind
And they broke My heart with their words unkind
I knew how it felt to be lonely and scorned
With those nails in My hands and My head crowned with thorns.
And that I’ll never give you all the things you dream of
You come to My Presence and you cry out to Me
But you really don’t believe that I even see.
But I see. But I see and I draw you to Me
And you must never think that that’s the way it should be
Isolation is dangerous and painful and bad
And I hate it when you hurt and your life is so sad.
Though eternal, immortal, I became man through birth
And even I, your Creator, had to have friends on earth
But My friends, they all left Me and some ran away
And they fell asleep when I asked them to pray.
They betrayed and disowned Me
And they left Me to die
And when I asked them to believe Me
They were too scared to try.
My family thought that I had lost My mind
And they broke My heart with their words unkind
I knew how it felt to be lonely and scorned
With those nails in My hands and My head crowned with thorns.
I was tried and convicted though I was innocent of blame
As I bore all the sins of this world and it’s shame
For I came to this earth to reclaim what was lost
And your pain and your sorrows were nailed to that Cross.
As I bore all the sins of this world and it’s shame
For I came to this earth to reclaim what was lost
And your pain and your sorrows were nailed to that Cross.
There were those who were there on that hill when I died
And my mother reached her arms out to me and she cried
But the only way I bore all I did on that day
Was in knowing that My Father was just a heartbeat away.
No human being could comfort Me then
As I paid the price for the wages of sin
Only My Father could ease all my pain
And I tell you, beloved, for you, He’ll do the same.
I see you there, you’re not alone
Your heart may be broken but I call it home
And I long to fill this house with joy
And love and light but you must employ.
The gifts of the Spirit, the power of My word
Here’s the keys to your cage: Now go fly, little bird
Never think that I don’t care when I see you sitting there
Though you feel so rejected, you’re not rejected by Me.
And you think I don’t see you.........
But I see. But I see.
And my mother reached her arms out to me and she cried
But the only way I bore all I did on that day
Was in knowing that My Father was just a heartbeat away.
No human being could comfort Me then
As I paid the price for the wages of sin
Only My Father could ease all my pain
And I tell you, beloved, for you, He’ll do the same.
I see you there, you’re not alone
Your heart may be broken but I call it home
And I long to fill this house with joy
And love and light but you must employ.
The gifts of the Spirit, the power of My word
Here’s the keys to your cage: Now go fly, little bird
Never think that I don’t care when I see you sitting there
Though you feel so rejected, you’re not rejected by Me.
And you think I don’t see you.........
But I see. But I see.
.......... 
©️by Voo Shining Stone
May 17, 1998
written for all of the invisible people in the "church" who don’t feel that they belong or are needed or cared about.
God’s heart is broken for these people and broken by the indifferent ones who don’t see the hurting, lonely, but precious sheep of His pasture
May 17, 1998
written for all of the invisible people in the "church" who don’t feel that they belong or are needed or cared about.
God’s heart is broken for these people and broken by the indifferent ones who don’t see the hurting, lonely, but precious sheep of His pasture
Sunday, May 18, 2025
The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: FOUND ON A BLUE GREEN SEA with spoken word versio...
The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: FOUND ON A BLUE GREEN SEA with spoken word versio...: Found On A Blue-Green Sea We sailed upon a blue-green sea My love and I, that night Beneath a moon of solid gold And ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025
What Is It?
What is It?
If love is not love
Then what is it?
How can it exist
If it's not real?
If love is not there
How can you feel it?
And what is a love
That you can't feel?
What is wanting
If you don't want it?
And needing something
That you don't need?
Why is the thing you don't need
So all powerful?
And how does it grow
If you don't plant the seed?
How does the heart decide who it loves?
Does the mind then, not play a part?
All of the thoughts in the brain can't conceive
Of the emotions that live in the heart.
The heart is an entity all of it's own
No one can control it by will
Your mind can demand and command it
But the heart hears and goes it's way, still.
I do not want to love you
I had made no plans, you see
I didn't count on you entwining yourself
Till you became a part of me.
I didn't want to want you
I didn't need the pain
I had hurt so much from love's cruel touch
And I didn't want to hurt again.
I really tried to run away
When that feeling did approach
I resisted everything I saw in you
That my lonely heart needed the most.
But the heart became my master
And my mind just sighed and left
For it knew that soon my heart would break
And that I'd find myself, bereft.
And so I am and so it did
And love's wounds have cut me deep
As my heart reached out to hold onto
Something it could never keep.
You tell me love cannot be real
In this place and space and time
Because your own heart does not feel
The love I feel with mine.
And though that might be true for you
That doesn't make it so
Not thinking, I reached my hands to love
And with the same hands, must let it go.
If this love is not love
Then what is it?
How can it exist
If it is not real?
If my love for you
Is not something that's true
Then tell me, what is this heartbreak
I feel?
You can't tell me my mind has imagined
When my mind warned me not to partake
My mind only has one thing in common
With my heart and that's both of them break.
But only love can break a heart
That thing that God gave man
And only He knows the secret to how
Love can heal that heart again.
©by Voo
July 4, 20019
12:27 a.m.
Independence Day
Only Love 1
Only Love 2
Only Love 3
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Friday, May 16, 2025
Friday Night, Corner Table an old favorite write
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.
I See Your Face Before Me by Johnny Hartman....................
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Waiting For The Thunder
Waiting For The Thunder
Waiting for the thunder
I need the rain
Waiting for relief
I heed the pain
What mortal wants
To be alone and cry?
What mortal wants to live
Alone and die?
For what is life
That has no kind of meaning?
If all one does is sowing,
Never gleaning?
If all you ever glimpse
Is the crescent moon
And no butterfly emerges
From it's cocoon?
No melody comes forth
From the violin
And teardrops fall
From the unkind words of men?
What then, I ask myself
As clouds roll in
Wondering where they came from,
Where they've been
The sun is sweet but silent
As I strive
But when the thunder roars
I come alive
For rain is tangible
It falls, I feel it
And the storm is formed
Because I want and will it
These thoughts. they come and go
Inside my mind
As my eyes seek
For love of any kind
But no love appears
So my heart's torn asunder
Yet still I go on watching
And waiting for the thunder.
©by Voo Shining Stone
May 15. 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
How Long Does It Take?
How Long Does It Take?
How long does it take to stop loving somebody?
How long does it take to stop wanting someone?
How long till it stops feeling like you are homeless
When you've lost that sweet heart that so long felt like home?
How long till the nights stop being eons of time?
And the days are long days that you wish would just end?
How long till it seems that your hopes and your dreams
Didn't die with the love in the eyes of your friend?
How long till the hurt doesn't hurt anymore?
For you no longer feel and you no longer care
And the sorrow and wrath and the pain makes a path
To the darkness that grabs you when there's nobody there?
I don't know all these answers, I cannot comprehend
What the world and it's schemes do to a woman and man
I have tried to decipher, I have tried to make sense
How one soul becomes two when one soul builds a fence.
Why can we not perceive when the devil comes creeping?
Why can we not see how he delights in love's death?
Why do we fight with each other, our true loves, our lovers
Instead of fighting that devil with our last living breath?
How long, oh my Lord, will this battle keep raging?
How long till the sun shines and never goes dark?
How long till we know we can trust one another
And not just trust one another to break each other's heart?
I have crawled back into my old shell of heartache
Where there is no sunshine and no drop of rain
Down to the desert of despaired desolation
Where the fantasy is pleasure and reality's pain.
How long will it be till I feel whole again?
How long till the world seems a safe place to live?
How long till I've taken all my soul can take
And my soul is refilled and has more love to give?
I do not love the nights now
I do not love the day
The nights when our hearts would softly whisper
And love would come to play.
I do not love the dawning
The joy that day would bring
I cannot hear the music now
I can't make my heart sing.
How long does it take to live again
And for a human heart to heal?
How long till those fantasies all fade away
Replaced by something real?
If no answer comes for me and no counsellor I find
If no angel comes down with a miracle and sign
If I was just foolish, perceiving no end or start
May all my records show that I lived even though
And I loved with all of my heart.
©By Voo Shining Stone
May 2020
(written in a dream
and found today scribbled
on a piece of tear stained paper)
In memory of
someone I loved and always will
❤️
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