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

The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: CATNIP and no, it's not about cats.....

The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: CATNIP and no, it's not about cats.....: More by Yello  please play............goes with poem Let it play till the bass kicks in...........then read Cat...

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

Two Voices ....... an oldie but oh so right on for the world today!!!!! wake up, people!!

 

Two Voices

Hateful words flying through the air

Like missiles and poisonous gas

They don't listen

Being so intent on trying to come up with

The next argument to prove how "woke" they are.

And let the people say.....I'm tired of this crap!!!

Anger's voice is too loud to talk over

We need a peacemaker like Ghandi, like Martin Luther King, like Jesus

The Bible says: Make no friendship with an angry man

Why?

Because an angry man is a walled city that can't be scaled

Bang your head on his wall, he won't hear you

He only hears the screams of his anger

Anger, non-righteous, is a demon that is only afraid of love

Righteous anger is good but even that must be laid aside

Before the sun goes down.

There comes a time

When weapons need to be laid down

And replaced by handshakes and hugs

And let the people say...I'm tired of war!

You can't rewrite history

You can only write the next chapter of the story

Let the poets and the lovers and the godly write that chapter

Take the thousand dollar pens out of the hands of the one per centers

It is they who wrote the previous chapters of hate and war

And made the innocent masses pay for their crimes.

And let the people say....Ain't that the truth!!!!

We know what's going on here,

We who have ears to hear

And eyes to see

We know who it is that loves war and hates peace

We know who it is that conquers by division

We know what drives men to madness 

And children to nightmares

We know.........................

And we know that the ancient law of "eye for an eye"

Only led to a world full of blind men

"Tooth for a tooth" led to teethless people made even more angry

By their inability to gnash their teeth

The only people who will attain peace in this world

Are those, like Chief Joseph, who say "I will fight no more again forever."

For fighting leads to fighting and killing of the body

Leads to killing of the soul.

And let the people say...... Somebody done growed a brain up in here!!!

All blood is red (unless you're a Martian)

And all men bleed the same color

Why?

Because we are of one race, one species, one family

Sly Stone said it well in "Family Affair" when he sang....

"One child grows up to be somebody that just loves to learn

And another child grows up to be somebody you'd just love to burn

Mom loves the both of them. You see it's in the blood.........

What am I saying?

 We are all one family, one blood

But depending on whose voice you listen to and follow.....

You will either be a good or evil member of that family

You will love your fellow man or burn in  the fire of your own anger

It's your choice to make

 Hate begets hate, love begets love

The Creator will still love you

 But He probably won't like you very much.

Why? 

Because you don't listen to the voice of Reason

But are swayed by the voice of Vengeance

There are only two voices in this world

One wants you to live in peace and love as you were made to love

And the other one knows...................

His time is short.

And let the people say.....Amen and Amen!

(now give me a High Five 

and a hug around the neck, Somebody!)

©by Voo Shining Stone

Sept 29, 2020

8:34 p.m.

Family Affair By The Family Stone

I Need Your Love So Bad

  

soundtrack

Need Your Love So Bad

She's sitting at the bar alone

Her hand around a glass

Looking like a movie star

With elegance and class.

She doesn't see me watching

Or if she does, ignores

My hungry stare at her lips, her hair

And wanting to see more.

That red dress fits her contours

Like she was poured in it

Those legs, they take my breath away

And give my loins a fit.

I finish off my white wine

And order something else

That white wine is not cutting it

So keep it on the shelf.

Bring me some good Crown Royal

Maybe a Sloe Gin Fizz

I've to get my courage up

I've got to finish this.

Look at all that long black hair

Look at those big brown eyes

Look at those luscious sweet red lips

And at those creamy thighs.

I didn't know when I walked in

This little bar tonight

That I would lose my heart and soul

To that girl that shines so bright.

She shifts around now in her seat

And quickly looks around

The band is gearing up to play

That smoky bluesy sound.

I down my drink, get to my feet

And saunter toward the bar

But other soldiers beat me there

Like they're engaged in war.

She looks at them with discerning eyes

And smiles a smile so sweet

Nods at one fine sharp dressed man

And gets then to her feet.

I watch her as she walks with him

Up to the dim dance floor

And they engage in a dance so hot

It melts that barroom floor.

I can't believe my loveless eyes

As I move back to my chair

I had no chance to have that dance

What was I doing there?

Look at the way she moves her hips

How she tosses her hair around

How she licks her lips and her fingertips

On his back, run up and down.

He tries to make a move on her

As his hands slide down her back

Down to her hips and she parts her lips

And stops him in his tracks.

"Uh-uh!" she says  and points her finger

Into his startled face

And no matter what he tries to do

She puts him in his place.

I am so pleased at what I see

And I hide my face and smile

I  like the way she handles him

I like her sense and style.

I wonder if she'll do the same

To me if I get fresh

i wonder if I'll get a turn

And who will be her next.

But it's not me, that much is sure

So i settle back to learn

What I might use to turn her head

And make that sweet thing burn.

My body turns to traitor

And soon I lose control

All night I watch her dancing there

While I seek to reach my goal.

She walks by me back to the back

And I want so much to follow

But I can't move my frozen feet

Or lift my glass to swallow.

Her perfume fills my nostrils

With a fragrance oh, so rare

And I breathe her in deep in my lungs

As her perfume lingers there.

I pay the band to play my song

Perhaps they'll dedicate

It just to her from the man in black

And I can hardly wait.

My heart beats like a school boy's

My chance, it comes at last

They dedicate the song to her

And I hear her gasp.

She turns to look in my direction

And I raise my glass and wink

And she looks away like i wasn't there

And my poor heart starts to sink.

I need your love so bad, girl

The blues man sings it loud

Give it up! he growls at her

With approval from the crowd.

And I sit in hope and fear of failure

Looking at that frame so fine

Wishing I could win her heart

Wishing she was mine.

She flirts with some tall rich tycoon

She laughs a silky laugh

She lets him kiss her lovely throat

And my heart tears in half.

I cannot stand the torture

I cannot stand the fear

I wonder how I'll walk away

And why I came in here.

That goddess is out of my league

What made me think I'd win

She is the kind that can take her time

And her pick of all the men.

I'm just a no one no one needs

I have not much to give

But how I'd love to have her be

The reason that I live.

i watch her slip off her red shoes

And rub her tender feet

She sighs a sigh that makes me cry

Hell, even her sigh is sweet!

I'd love to have her in my arms

My car, my room, my bed

I'd kiss her from her dancing toes

To the top of her sexy head.

I'd pour my love out on that girl

I'd make her feel so nice

But who am I fooling, that girl won't even

Look at this mad man twice!

I pay my tab and get to my feet

I won't allow myself to look

For I know the crowd is hovering there

Just reading her like a book.

I feel so lonely and defeated

As I stumble to the door

Walk out into the cold night air

Not caring any more.

I find my car in the parking lot

The old one bent and blue

And my eyes behold a sight that I

Cannot believe is true.

She's leaning there upon the car

As plain as plain can be

And she says, No, I will not come with you

But you're going home with me.

i pinch myself to see if I'm dead 

I don't believe the state I'm in

She leads me round my car and opens

The door to a Mercedes Benz.

We drive up in the movie star hills

Up to a steel gray gate

It opens with her secret code

And man, I feel so great.

She kisses me upon the lips

And pulls me to her arms

And I give in to sex and sin

Fall victim to her charms.

You're the man for me, she whispers low

I've prayed to God above

To send me someone just like you

Man, I've got to have your love.

And the blues song fills the cold night air

As cold champagne fills my cup

And I reach to take my fill of her....

And, oh damn, then I wake up!!!!

©by the very bad Voo

June 9, 2019

2:58 p.m.