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Monday, March 23, 2026
The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: Utter Nonsense and Other Pages From My Diary
Looking For A Muse
Looking For A Muse
I used to write a lot
Stories, poems and things
I used to dance and love romance
I even used to sing.
I woke up in the morning
With a smile upon my face
Went to bed with lucid dreams
But all that's been replaced.
No poem has come to me in days
No dream has come in nights
No dance or romance has lured me in
And nothing seems all right.
I was born with a pen in my right hand
I was born with such love in my heart
High, lofty dreams carried me on their wings
Couldn't wait for adventures to start.
There was always a muse standing beside me
Always spurring me on
Giving me hope and my own way to cope
As I wrote a new poem or song.
And through the years replacements found me
In moments of joy or of strife
A new muse and friend when old assignments would end
There was always a muse in my life.
But now, alas! There has been no muse
To take the last one's place
No one to inspire me to write again
With his love or his smile or his face.
Perhaps I exhausted the muses I had
Used up their inspiration somehow
Their talents were spent (I don't know where they went)
But I'm ready to write, ready to dream.........
And I'm looking for a new muse to come find me now.
©️by Voo Shining Stone
March 22, 2026

my once and always permanent muse
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***A male version of a muse is simply called a Male Muse. While "muse" is traditionally feminine, male muses are figures—lovers, friends, or models—who inspire creative work. Common synonyms for a male muse include inspiration, mentor, guide, or partner.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Look Woman, You Said......
Look, Woman....
"Look, woman......" you said
My hard heart just melted And fell into your arms........ ๐งก
©By Voo Shining Stone Sept 11, 2020 2:20 a.m.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: IN YOUR POCKET (edit) ๐๐ค↡๐ฉ
Friday, March 20, 2026
Small Lives
It is hard for people like me
Who have bigger hearts than most
To live such small lives.
It is hard for people like me
Who have such large dreams
Never see them come to pass.
It is hard for people like me
Who have such tirelessly thoughtful minds
To be disdained for the very thoughts we think.
It is hard for people like me
Who have more love in our little fingers
Than a thousand hearts who don't care that they don't care.
Why must it be so, this deadly truth?
This common fact,
This observation made on a daily basis
By those of us with all of the above and yet none of the above.
That is, the dreams that are fulfilled,
The grand thoughts brought to fruition,
The love we've given, returned
The hearts so filled with the yearning for life, given a chance to live?
Why must we live destitute
In a world full of treasure chests spilling over with love?
Why must we dance in our dreams on feet floating on air
And wake holding nothing in our empty arms?
Why must we build the castles in our minds
Only to see them crumbled by reality's hands?
Why must our hearts wither and die, deprived of the thing
That keeps them alive more than blood?
Why must we live like this, helplessly watching
The big tidal waves sweep our dreams off the shore
Why must we live these small, small lives
When there could be so much, much more?
©By Voo Shining Stone
Aprill 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2026
The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: SHATTERED
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Monday, March 2, 2026
IT WAS THAT
right click on video, hit Loop
and it will keep playing!
It Was That
Mistletoe falling from Christmas trees
Cathedral bells chiming in the new year




























This one absolutely breaks my heart.....mostly because I fear an ending to my own life with my husband. At 69 and 73 in our respective ages, after 51 years of marriage with beginnings I can relate to in this poem, I am realistic, knowing that there WILL be a goodbye one day. Who will leave first and when, I don't know. I desperately want to be the one to "go" first only because I don't want to be left without him. Good poem, but, oh, how it hurts.
ReplyDelete"Dragons breathed upon me
ReplyDeleteAnd swept the sky of stars"
Amazing!
humble thanks
DeleteSo sublime and well crafted. It runs like a movie with each scene so intense n moving notwithstanding the sadness it oermeates
ReplyDeleteThank you, singing Man! lol It wrote itself. I had no idea how it would end.
DeleteIf I recall correctly, it was this piano piece that inspired it. That frequently
happens to me. So glad you liked it
Noice! ๐
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