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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Your Eyes Are Like.........





Your Eyes Are Like....


Your eyes are like the ocean
Deeper than the sea
And swimming there inside their depths
Is where I want to be.

Your eyes are like the heavens
Up above my head
Sending signals to my brain
Demanding to be read.

Your eyes are like soft rainy days
And sometimes like a storm
Blazing up with passion's fire
To make my cold heart, warm.

Your eyes are like twin mirrors
Hear me, yes, it's true
I see me in your eyes of love
And in my eyes, you see you.

Your eyes are my jewels and my gold
My silver shining sea
And joyous I live now I've found you
And your eyes shine on me.


©by Voo
12/10/19




Tuesday, November 26, 2019

THE GLORY TRAIN



Train sounds


 The Glory Train

         

Down by the old train tracks in Glory, Mississippi
                There is a man that walks alone
Almost every night when the moon is high
                Waiting for a train..............
That never comes by.

Sometimes you can see him
Sometimes you can feel him
Sometimes you just know that he's there
Walking and weeping and crying like a baby
For the girl who had left him 'cause she didn't care.

               They say he died there waiting for the train
                To come back through and go searching for her
                In the blast of a blizzard and the arms of the wind
                He froze like a statue for the train had derailed
                 And neither he or that old train would be running again.

There are too many stories
               That come out of Glory
And I haven't a clue if any are true
But I know this one is and that man's not a myth
And this is the story I'm telling to you.

I've seen him myself and that is the truth
When the night was quiet and the moon was full
A pale apparition with big ghostly eyes
Piercing the silence with his heartbroken moans
Walking and wailing like the poor man could die.

One night I walked there as I made my way home
Following the tracks in the cold December fog
Longing for warmth and the comfort of fire
Sad for myself and the love I had lost
                 Lost for my lips were the lips of a liar.

A coldness colder than  deep winter's breath
Blew on my face and clutched at my arm
I  froze where I stood like my cold feet were fused
For a man stood there holding.................
A ticket he'd never used.

I shook my head when he held out the ticket
                 Staring at him and not wanting to see
Then I turned to flee in my terror's mad grasp
                 Running away from my future
                As he ran towards his past.

                But then I stopped and turned to face him
Standing there waiting on those tracks of pure rust
His face was a see through mask of such pain
And in the distance in the darkness
We both heard the train.

It hadn't run in forty years
                It hadn't existed since before I was born
It hadn't sounded that old whistle low
And how it ran then, I couldn't tell you
But the man caught the train and that's all that I know.

         



©By Voo
Oct 9, 08
2 a.m.

Friday, November 22, 2019

We Are Like Trees



We Are Like Trees


We are like trees
Our roots go deep
Even as our branches are lopped off
By life and love and loss

Our roots go deep
And try to hang on
To every bit of life
Every drop of love

And even when it appears
That we are dead or dying on the outside
The scent of love's rain will revive us
And make us stand up on the inside
And reach out for life again.

©by Voo
11/22/19


Job 14:7

“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
 And that its tender shoots will not cease.




All The Roots Grow Deeper
by David Wilcox



Arvo Part
Spiegel im Spiegel
(one of my very favorite
pieces of music)

The River Made of Dreams






 The River Made of Dreams




Tonight, my love, I'll be off again
Like I've been wont to do
Rowing down that river of dreams
Searching still for you.

Listening for your heartbeat
The call I hope to hear
Feeling my heart beating fast
When it feels you are near.

Your smile is like my morning sun
Your eyes, my stars at night
Your love is like the moon above
Reflecting Heaven's light.

I follow the compass in my soul
That I know will lead me to
The only love I've ever known
That's ever proven true.

I miss you like a summer's breeze,
Rain on a desert floor
We only had a taste so brief
Of love but I need more.

My love, why did you have to go
Leave me alone and thus
Searching every waterway
On a shore that's turned to dust?

I know you did not mean to leave
It was against your will
Your sad eyes swore your bond to me
And we are bonded still.

The waters took you away from me
In the currents wild and wide
And I followed till I lost sight of you
And there I died inside.

I promised that I would find you again
No matter how hard it seems
And tonight I'll row my boat once more
Down that river made of dreams.



©by Voo
11/22/19