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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

TSK TSK





Tsk Tsk


standing in the silence singing
falling on the lawn
looking for the host of heaven
waking up to dawn

kneeling in the afterglow
indulgence knocked you down
i offered you a drink of wine
but you didn't have to drown.





©by voo
may 12, 07 
7:56 p.m

Monday, October 9, 2017

Whisper In The Wind by Paulie B

Whisper in the Wind


Can you hear that?

Yes!
The rumble of the ground
Earth rebels
Cracking and seething
Shaking
Men cry in terror
Buildings fall apart

No, that's not what I meant!
Can you hear that?

Yes!
And I feel the heat!
Sweat pours from me!
Flames lick loudly
Inferno rages
Deafening as wood splinters
External roar
We're all going to die!

No, that's not what I meant!
Can you hear that?

Yes!
Howling gale
Windy scream
Shuddering through all it meets
Causing involuntary cries
From all in its path
Devastating
Tears form in my eyes!

No, that's not what I meant!
Can you hear that?

No
No, I hear nothing
I am worn out

Listen!
It is almost overwhelmed
A tidal wave of white noise seeks to tune it out
Chatter chatter seeks to block it
Competing ideologies seek to confuse it
Listen!
A little voice
You have to be quiet
You have to filter out the other voices
Shhhh!
The whisper
Be still and know that this is God

Copyright Paul Bird 2017

Sunday, October 8, 2017

STORM ON A NEVER ENDING NIGHT

















Storm on a never ending Night



Scraping against my window
With it's tattered, twisted fingers
The ravaged tree branch makes
A screeching noise like nails on chalkboard
The wind howls like a banshee out of it's mind
And repeats it's attack against the house
And tree over and over and over again
Like a crazed thing caught in a groove
It cannot escape from......


Thunder, loud as a million drums rolls across
The midnight skies in a kind of fearsome 
Rhythm reminiscent of a marching band orchestrated
And led by a madman's creative frenzy
The lightning strikes come fast and furious
Blinding me like a photographer's flash
And sudden car lights on a dark road
I am so afraid!


Here alone in the darkness with the blankets
Pulled over my head and the cat sleeping
Restlessly on my feet though she jumps
At every roar and flash and scrape
I peek between my frozen fingers now and then
At the window and the scene lit up beyond
It's safety to a terrible landscape groaning
In the storm on this never ending night.....


I close my eyes and try to escape in sleep
But it is elusive and the dreams won't come
Though I force my eyelids to stay tightly shut
What's that?! 
The wind has broken the branch and the branch
Has broken the window, the rain pours in now
I cry out loud and clutch the blanket 
To my trembling body that will not be still
And I wonder what to do. What to do.....


Suddenly, the cat stands and arches her feline body
High in the air and makes an unearthly screech
Like nothing I have ever heard her make before
She stares at the broken window and the branch
Protruding through it as the rain flows down it's gray bark
And hits my floor like a waterfall then splashes up
Onto the bed and blankets
She hisses and growls and I reach my hand out to her
To pull her to me and comfort her though I don't know how.....


And then I see it. Outside the window. Peering in
It's red eyes glowing in the dark and then shining in the lightning
That strikes in ever increasing intensity
Watching us. Waiting there in the storm just outside
Watching, just watching. The cat and I are frozen, we cannot move
We cannot call out, we cannot cry, we cannot breathe
We cannot.......and then a hand unlike any hand I have ever seen
Comes through the window, moving the tree branch and brushing
Away the shattered glass. A giant, hideous hand. Moving....


And behind it a tall dark form too terrible to behold 
And too terrible to look away from
I cannot look away and I cannot run
The cat flings herself into my arms and we shrink back
Against the wall making ourselves as tiny as we can
The thunder rolls and the lightning flashes and the rain pours
As the sounds of broken glass hits the floor
Terror as I've never known it overtakes me then and my mind
Shuts down and deserts me like a traitor as I scream.....


The cat, brave little creature that she is, stands up as if
To defend me as the form slides into the window cleared of debris
And it's shadow fills the room and looms above me
I hear the cat attack, sinking her claws into the uninvited thing
Going for it's eyes, shredding it with feline swords and howling
It's then I find my feet and I fly out of the room into the darkness
Into the street, into the storm and I run and I run and I run and I run
Like a marathon runner with no need of breath. I run.....


        With bare feet, and hair streaming, my long white gown
        Flowing ghost- like around me in the night
I run in terror. I run in hope and I don't know where I'm running to
Suddenly, I see a flash ahead of me, maybe the dawn, maybe the sun
Maybe a rescuer. I dare to slow and catch my breath in gasps
Though it hurts now to breathe. I stop and I stand there in the road
Waiting for the light to come again and crying tears that mingle with the rain.....


And then I see....there in the darkness. .coming towards me
For the second time in a night that never ended
Those red eyes.... glowing.......
And I cannot run anymore. I can't. I cannot run anymore.
So I stand there and I wait
As the storm swirls around me, my terror melting from exhaustion
Resigned, I wait for the touch of that hideous hand and to be
Engulfed in those awful eyes......
And then, I am. And then I am.







©by Voo
Feb 21, 2005
       2 a.m.




IF BLUES IS A WOMAN









If Blues Is A Woman


Honey, if blues, it is a woman
Well, then, heartache is a man
Can't nobody down here tell me
The devil don't have busy hands.

You see, the boys, they love to preach it
How they love us little girls
Then they love us and they leave us
Where they found us in this world.

Then they sit in bars till daylight
Talkin' how they was done wrong
Chasin' women, chasin' whiskey
Till ever drop o' love is gone.

Now, I've broke a heart or three
Had my share of dirty deals
Didn't love the one that loved me
So I know just how that feels.

But I never meant no evil
Never tried to do no bad
Made acquaintance with tha' lonely
Slept in rooms just full of sad.

Men say blues, it is a woman
Makes  'em hurt long as it can
But I say, if blues, it is a woman
Surely, heartache is a man.








        I'll Take Care of You by Van Morrison

    


©By Voo
May 11, 09
12:43 a.m.



APPARITION RIVER




APPARITION RIVER 


I walked along the river again today
I saw the places where we used to play
I saw the apparitions floating by
Of smile and kiss reflecting in the sky
I felt the touch I can't feel any more
Since you walked out and slammed that hollow door
And it bounced back and refused to catch and lock
And I sat there waiting three days for your knock.


After three days I thought I heard a siren's wail
But I was so far down I couldn't tell
Screaming past my house down by the water 
It woke me up and I went running after
My mother caught my arm and said "Go home."
Then she rocked me, crying, "Baby girl, he's gone."
So now I walk the river's edge and cry
And watch the apparitions floating by.


"There are ghosts in that river," you told me, "Suicides,
Lovers lost and widows, jilted brides."
You teased me every time we gathered there
But I loved you so much I didn't care
I remember how your ghost stories made me shiver
But how we loved that muddy rolling river
And now that dirty water is your grave
And I have nothing lovely left to save.


I saw you there last week by river's edge
You waved at me and smiled that golden smile
I stood there so dead still upon the ledge
And let your memory hold me for a while
I know I broke your heart but you forgive me
I know I lied to you and did you harm
For three long years I've walked along that river
And longed to be back in my true love's arms.


Tomorrow morning I shall get up early
I'll put on my unused white wedding gown
I'll carry roses in my arms to give you
And let your apparition pull me down 
Down to the muddy depths of cold, cold water
Reflecting blue that's borrowed from the sky
Then immortal, hand in hand, we'll walk together
And watch other apparitions floating by.





One More Time by Laura Pausini


©by Voo
March 3, 2004