collab
Friday, October 17, 2025
There Stood a House repost beware....spooky
play music for scary effect
There Stood A House
There stood a house
And the house stood there alone
No cat with teasing mouse
No dog with tortured bone.
No squeaking floor
No belfry bat
No one to disturb
The peace of that.
No rattling branch
No howling pack
No one to leave
And then come back.
Except the child
That swings alone
In midnight moon
She sings her song.
The little girl
With pig-tailed hair
She swings and sings
To empty air.
For many moons
She's swung like that
Through storm and sleet
And days so black.
For no sun will shine
Upon that place
No breeze comes by
To touch her face.
The passers-by
Walk out of their way
To avoid the house
Where sadness stays.
For they all know
The story wild
And the hateful fate
That befell the child.
So long ago
On that terrible day
When the monster took
The sun away.
And then the family
Moved from the home
And left the girl
To swing alone.
They left so broken
Almost insane
They didn't know
That she remained.
She couldn't leave
The place she died
She watched them leave
And stood and cried.
Then to the swing
She went to play
The swing her Daddy
Made that birthday.
And there she swings
And sings her song
As the old house watches
And stands alone.
©by Voo
July 23, 2017
1:46 a.m.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Vision In The World Of The Blind
Vision
(In The World Of The Blind)
Peering through the darkness growing
I saw the forms of men
Running in the black winds blowing
Their banners raised for sin
Rounding up the innocents
Rallying the troops
Separating goats and lambs
To isolated groups
Whistleblowers silencing
Preachers preaching truth
Scandalized and smeared with lies
Without an ounce of proof
I saw the evil rising
To rooftops and to sky
Spreading chaos through the land
As the blind embraced the lie
Oceans full of grief and greed
Sweeping out the earth
Bringing death to young and old
That never knew new birth
Bullets flying, children crying
Blood running in the street
While drug cartels, the spawn of hell
Walked by on spotless feet
Politicians shaking hands
Making dirty deals
Bought and paid for in back rooms
From power broker shills
Taking from the average Joe
Taking from the salt
Of earth, those good and godly folk
Whose souls cannot be bought
And in the penthouses of the world
Sipping cold champagne
The idol makers strategize
To give their puppets fame
(It's all about the wealth and gold
It's all about the choice
To let them tell you what to say
While they use your voice)
I saw the wars on paper planned
The calculated death
The skies so full of chemicals
You could hardly draw your breath
Marching to the hospitals
Begging for the drugs
I couldn't tell in that sick hell
The housewives from the thugs
Plans and schemes and shattered dreams
Lay scattered on the ground
While hope went up in ashes
And hopelessness came down
And men in thousand dollar suits
Tore down the nations' borders
And bowed before the entities
From which they take their orders
I saw there in the Spirit's light
The plan of old so clear
I felt the cold breath on my neck
The Devil stood so near
Like ants beneath his feet are men
Disposable, obtuse
He drains their souls, throws them away
When there is no more use
I saw there in the darkness growing
From sea to shining sea
Demon and man work hand in hand
And I know that they saw me
They saw me see the ancient Plan
They saw me grasp their dream
They saw me raise my righteous fist
They saw me and they screamed
And in the darkness a multitude
Of lights blinked on and blazed
The Army of the Lord awakened
And their righteous fists were raised
I saw the enemy scatter then
Like insects in the light
The Devil's plan undone, unwon
As the blind received their sight.
©by Voo
April 24, 2006
(I do not know why God lifts up
The veil to me sometimes
Some days I beg Him to shut my eyes
And let me, too, go blind
I know there’s others in the world
That see the things I do
But you can’t go back to a life of lies
Once you’ve seen the true)
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Fools On A Gray Autumn Day
Fools On A Gray Autumn Day
Standing here in the silence of a gray, lackluster day
We briefly glance into somber eyes, then turn and look away
You clear your throat and smooth your coat
Your body blocks the sun
I wait to hear your footsteps retreat; I expect to hear them run
But they don't walk and you don't talk
No words spill from your mouth
But heartbeats break the silent roar
That the heart cannot pour out.
Your big hand reaches for my small
That's buried in my pocket
And with the other I undo the clasp
On the sterling silver locket
That holds the picture of the love we shared until today
I put it in your empty hand and still I do not say
Unsaid words that serve no purpose;
For they cannot change a thing
And the unshed tears bring no release
And the unshed tears bring no release
But blind us by their sting.
Goodbye, it is a joke and lie, it expresses no sincere thought
For what is good about the bye? Just another moment bought
An autumn leaf falls on your shoulder from an almost barren tree
And I think the bright red leaf is you and the barren tree is me
We watch a V formation of snow geese on the wing
Flying through the skies above to find another Spring.
One last throat clearing, one last hand clasp
Your lips meet mine once more and last
The saddest smile I've ever seen
Goodbye, it is a joke and lie, it expresses no sincere thought
For what is good about the bye? Just another moment bought
An autumn leaf falls on your shoulder from an almost barren tree
And I think the bright red leaf is you and the barren tree is me
We watch a V formation of snow geese on the wing
Flying through the skies above to find another Spring.
One last throat clearing, one last hand clasp
Your lips meet mine once more and last
The saddest smile I've ever seen
Touches your eyes with tearbright gleam
Hands pull apart, eternity ends
Eyes close on memories of there and then
We walk in different directions now
Hands pull apart, eternity ends
Eyes close on memories of there and then
We walk in different directions now
And don't look back, somehow, somehow.
The tears held back, now fall like rain
The tears held back, now fall like rain
Down heartbroken faces that drown in pain
And each, we shout unsaid words then
And each, we shout unsaid words then
And hear them stolen by the thieving wind
At the edge of the park, I think I'll turn
At the edge of the park, I think I'll turn
To see if you're there ( I never learn))
I pray that you're running on swift feet to me
I pray that you're running on swift feet to me
But I never turn and I never see
And you walk on toward the ocean of blue
And wonder if I am now running toward you.
Your heart beating fast as the locket you grasp
With it's picture of you and of me
But I'm walking and crying and waiting for you to follow
As the locket is thrown into the sea.
© by Voo
November 19, 2005
3 p.m.
And you walk on toward the ocean of blue
And wonder if I am now running toward you.
Your heart beating fast as the locket you grasp
With it's picture of you and of me
But I'm walking and crying and waiting for you to follow
As the locket is thrown into the sea.
© by Voo
November 19, 2005
3 p.m.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)