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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

VALLEY OF PROUD MEN

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

SEDUCTION IN PALE GLOW




 Seduction In Pale Glow




Candy, he said
You taste like candy
The imported kind
That costs a week's salary.

And that perfume you wear
What's it called?
No, wait, I don't want to know
Let it remain a mystery.

Your skin feels like silk
Arabian silk that glides like the ripple
Of a stone across a pond
Smooth, you know? Like that.

And look at that hair
Miles of it!
Have you ever cut it? No?
Then promise me you never will.

Where do you buy your clothes?
They're beautiful, stylish
You look like you just stepped 
Out of the pages of a magazine.

I bet you sing, don't you?
I bet you sing like a bird, an angel, even
Would you sing to me, for me?
I know you sing just listening to you talk.

You have a laugh that makes the soul happy
And that twinkle in your eye, marvelous!
I could sit here in this candlelight 
And look at you until the end of time.

Let's dance, shall we?
What wonderful music, I love it
A samba? A rumba? The bossa nova?
I don't care as long as we dance.

Look at you! Are you a professional?
I've never seen such grace, such beauty, such excitement
You shine like a diamond, a diamond, I tell you!
Would you be my diamond? My precious jewel?

Let's go outside into the garden
Get some air, let me catch my breath
You take my breath away, you make me weak
I've never met anyone like you before.

Is it alright if I kiss you again?
Like this? Look at me! Into my eyes
Can you see the fire you have kindled?
I'd better stop before I am consumed by it.

But no! I can't! I don't want to!
Your lips are soft and luscious
And they were made to be kissed
You taste like candy, did I tell you that?

Look at that moon! Isn't it incredible?
See how your eyes shine in it's pale glow
I know there's no music here but I want to hold you
Tight here in my arms till the morning comes.

Sing to me and we'll slow dance
Anything you want, I don't care
Yes, that's it! How sweet and special you are
You make me feel like I was just born tonight!

Would you like some champagne?
A night cap on the way home? Anything you like
Your wish is my command, my princess
For you I'll be a willing slave.

Tell me where you live
Is it far? It doesn't matter, we'll drive all night
It feels so good to have you here beside me
I feel like a prince in a fairy tale story.

Driver, stop the car! What's wrong, my darling?
Speak to me! Are you ill? What can I do?
Why are you looking at me like that?
What have I done, my love, to make you sad?

Where are you going? Why are you running?
You mustn't go into the forest, it's dark
Look! There's a storm brewing, you must come back
Come back, I tell you, this is madness! Madness!!!

Driver, where did she go? Did you see where she went?
What do you mean, she who? The girl, the beautiful girl!
Are you insane, man? The girl from the restaurant!
The girl in the back seat of this town car with me!

No! Get away from me! I'm not intoxicated!
There was a girl, I tell you! You must have seen her!
We danced, we drank champagne, she sat there at the table
And then we danced in the courtyard and she kissed me.

She tasted like candy. Like candy
And that perfume! Intoxicating! A mysterious fragrance
Skin like silk and long, raven hair, those glorious eyes!
I loved her the moment I saw her.

We must call someone. They must find her
She's out there alone in the forest, it's dreadful
Would you go and look for her, please?
Don't look at me like that, I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy.

Look, it's pouring rain now. Lightning.
That beautiful white dress will be soaked
She'll be so cold. So cold. I must find her....
Alright, take me home, driver, we'll call someone.

Good morning, man, may I see the paper?
I didn't sleep a bit last night, I walked the floor
Wait! What's that? That picture! It's the girl, I tell you!
One year anniversary of her death! It couldn't be!

She was there! With me! In my arms!
We danced, we talked, we laughed
We drank champagne, we kissed
 She tasted like candy, like candy, I tell you
Like candy.










 ©By Voo
Sept 24, 07 midnight


Almost Blue by Chet Baker


AND I WILL DANCE FOR YOU



















And I Will Dance For You
                     

and I will dance for you in darkness
I will dance for you in light
I will catch you up in starshine
brighten corners of your night.


I will sing you of the love songs
still yet unsung in my heart
build a fire in the coldness
saved from hope's undying spark.


I will fly you up to heaven
swim you underneath the seas
kiss you on the tops of mountains
hold your hands in Eden's breeze.


play for me, the music in you
play for me, the soul's refrain
play for me, the song of your heart
in the sunshine and the rain.


and I will dance for you in rapture
I will twirl in love's embrace
living for applause of your eyes
the approval of your face.


dancing, dancing, sad feet dancing
trampling sadness till it's gone
I will dance for you forever
my feet have, at last, found their song.


















©by Voo
April 29, 2006 
5 p.m. 

Monday, May 8, 2017

I'LL COME IN STORM CLOUDS


           

        
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I'll Come In Storm Clouds


Hear the rain
Fall on the glass
Small wet drops
Now coming fast.

Hear the thunder
How it roars
Let’s run to bed now
And bolt the doors.

Hear the lightning
See it strike
It’s going to be
An electric night.

Light the candles
Pour the wine
The night is yours
And you are mine.

Read me poetry
You wrote for me
Look through my eyes
See what I see.

I’ll kiss the words
Right off your mouth
Unleash the passion
And pour it out.

Your hands are velvet
Your hands are steel
I’ve much to teach them
About how to feel.

I’ll dance for you
In candle glow
And show you things
That you don’t know.

For rain awakes me
And thunder calls
But lightning evokes me
Most of all.

For I am thunder
And I am rain
And I come as lightning
To strike again.

This breath I breathe
I breathe for you
This feast in my eyes
Is prepared for you.

Come, let us taste
Come, let us dine
On rain and thunder
And love and wine.

My heart is hungry
My need is great
Love, be my banquet
I cannot wait.

The night is passing
Tomorrow dawns
But rush of passion
Goes on and on.

I cannot stop now
Till this storm has quit
It drives me onward
With each lightning hit.

And you, my wildness
And you, my joy
Inspire my wiles to
Further employ.

Till daylight breaks
And night has fled
And we lie happy
In this rumpled bed.

The candles burned down
To melted pools
The wine drops warming
In glass still cool.

I kiss your face
You touch my hair
And all the fires
Still smolder there.

Let’s sleep awhile
Let’s dream and then
Wait for the storm
To stir up again.

You’ll be my desert
Thirsty anew
And I’ll come in storm clouds
And rain on you.






©by Voo

March 13, 2010



NOTHING LEFT STANDING BUT VAMPIRES

                                                                                                                                                                                      


                                                                                                                    

Nothing Left Standing But Vampires



I walk down the boulevard in old New Orleans
In my designer black high heels and my little black dress
Tripping on cobblestones and grabbing for lamp posts
That are no longer there
Looking for houses and landmarks and history
That have stood for ages against wind and rain and fire
But they are no more
They are memories washed out to sea..........

I stand underneath a tree that has survived
And I marvel at it's tenacity; I caress the limbs and
Branches with their pitiful leaves reaching out to me
With human like gestures and I hear them whispering
In pleading voice "Why?"
And I shrug and hang my head and cold tears run down
My face and fall upon the broken ground...........

My birth place is a junkyard now
Not a trace left of the wide verandas and hanging ferns
White wicker furniture and fountains sparkling in the sun
Just pieces of glass lying there reflecting my sorrowed face
In a pool of water not fit to touch the earth
I walk in silence down streets that don't exist
Through gardens that have no fruit or flower
In this shattered city that has drowned in jazz and
A hurricane's embrace................

Ghost ships pull into the port and disappear in mists of smoke
And fog, dispensing cargoes to the ghosts who run to catch them
And then, they too, disappear, their voices crying out and
Trailing off in winding wails of woe and homelessness
The golden sun falls now into fiery red and still I walk
And still I look and search for remnants of the home I cherished
And the parish I played in and the city I loved................

It's so silent now I can hear my heart beating in my breast
My tears have dried and have emptied their reservoir
I can cry no more
Darkness comes and covers me in it's blanket of warm, black ink
I put my arms around me and hug myself in desperation
A comfortless gesture, and as my eyes adjust, I walk on as the moon
Comes up shining over the scattered landscape
A breath of wind blows softly behind me and touches me with friendly
Hands and I sigh in gratitude and turn.................

And as I turn, I catch the outline of a form in black standing there
Among the shadows
On the remnant of a balcony with it's white hand upon the rail
For a moment the figure doesn't move, it's head bowed in silent
Sorrow and it's tears glittering in the moonlight
Then he raises his sad face towards me and our eyes meet 
In the still pale light and in sweetness 
Only two grieving hearts can share...............

He nods and moves so I can see the useless dagger 
He holds to his own throat in voiceless agony 
But he cannot die, he can never die, not even of grief 
And I nod and raise my hand in greeting and he returns in kind
For long agonizing seconds we stand there still as death, longing to
Run to hold one another but do not move and do not move
And do not move, our feet frozen in icy grip of traumatized despair...........

And then, with one last long look, I turn to go and leave the figure
Standing there in his crumbling mansion watching me as my high heels
Click on pavement, rock and shards of glass
As the sun comes up, I find my destination 
And slip in between the twisted gated fence 
And search the rows of granite that are standing
Some are not and some are gone but one stands there resolutely
Against the sky, it's angels flying merrily in gray relief 
And it's resident's name carved there for all to see and wonder at..........

I run my fingers over the angels' faces 
And press a kiss into my hand and blow it into the wind
Then looking forlornly at my broken city washed clean and desolate
In the morning, I slip into the grave to sleep
Not resting, never resting now but tossing back and forth
In bitter search of peace..........

I slip off my high heeled shoes 
And see that my feet are cut and bruised and bleeding 
And I smile
Feeling somehow, alive
The only thing living in New Orleans.






©by Voo
September 5, 2005
2 p.m.

 My Vampire Heart by Tom McRae




Voo and Mark the vampire
thanks, Mark, man of 1000 faces