collab

Sunday, June 28, 2020

We Became Strangers


                                                




 We Became Strangers


If I knew the reasons
I wouldn't be writing this poem
I'd be writing love songs
And publishing them up in a tome

If I knew the wherefores
I'd be fixing them all everyday
If I knew the whys
I'd know how to make your love stay

If I knew the answers
I'd lock all the questions up tight
If I saw this day coming
I'd chain the day up in the night

But I never saw it
And I never questioned your whys
Nor conceded your wherefores
Nor answered your questions with lies

But the day is now here
And I'm watching my life walk away
And I'm begging inside
But my lips have no words left to say

I thought we were lovers
And lovers forever till death
But all of your love died
As you exhaled that love out in your breath

It is my fault, I know that now
Just like I knew it when
You asked me to be true to you
And not look at other men

But I was greedy and I was wrong
And I gave my love away
For I was lonely and I needed you
And you were always away

Then in the process of our lives
Our hearts gave up and cried
And all the sweetness of our love
Just laid down and it died

And now we're strangers just as surely
As though we'd never met
Even though our hearts still feel
And our hearts can't forget

You turn and wave and I wave back
As tears roll down my face
You board the plane and fly away
And leave a lonely place

It's cold here in our empty bed
It's cold inside of me
Why couldn't we learn as we went
Why couldn't our eyes see?

It is too late, it's just too late
I whisper to myself
We've used up all the love we had
And there is no love left

I lie and cry and hate myself
I hate what I've become
I wish I'd had more time with you
To make this house a home

But you are gone now far away
Away from heartache's dangers
And I am here to think about
How lovers became strangers

If only I......I cry out loud
Had heard when your heart would sing
But I never listened and then it stopped
And you took off your ring

Now it's too late, you've lost your song
You'll find some other ears
And she will love you like I could not
While I drown in my tears

In my confusion and my grief
I do not hear the clock
I do not hear a car door slam
I do not hear the knock

And you are there in my doorway
You've set off the alarms
But I don't care for up I fly 
And you take me in your arms

I can't leave you, you say to me
For what would this world be
If you were not here in my life
What good would living be?

My love, my love, I say to you
I pray forgive my sin
And forgive mine you say to me
And we fall in love again

This time we'll do things differently
We vow to one another
And I hear your heart sing out to me
As two strangers become new lovers

Oh, love it is a precious thing
Guard it night and day
Don't let it cry and fade and die
And don't let it walk away

Who knows if it will dare return
To the place it felt alone
Who knows if it will see it's truth
And find it's way back home


©by Voo
January 30, 2019
4:58 a.m.


Ooh Baby Baby



Look at this "baby" singing the heck out of one
of my very favorite old Smokey songs
OOH, BABY, BABY.......wow


you go, kid!!!!



And this version......oh sweet Lord, I'm
going to swoon!!!!! oh geez....
I am melting here.....💋💖😍😎

The Scare Crow That I Am




the Scare Crow that I am



dead cornstalks hanging there in scattered rows
like broken mummified men
like me........
but they have ancient cornfields in which to stand
I have no place to be and no reason to exist

surveying the neglected countryside of my youth
and the forgotten fields that once were fruitful
I feel like the aftermath of a hurricane
and a desecrated cemetery

hopelessness walks around me in the mist
the cold gray morning whispers like a lover
who no longer loves but despises
and I try to cry but cannot well up tears
the ducts are as dry as the heart

why do we always run home
 when our souls are snapped in two?
do we think we'll find ourselves there 
in those broken windows, those cobwebs,
those untended gardens and uninhabited pastures?

I couldn't wait to leave those hills and valleys
to run to the city and to the fulfillment of my dreams
I couldn't wait to leave home, to leave behind  
humiliations, real and imagined, to search for proud pursuits
and now this, the last straw on my humbled back:

home does not exist anymore, neither here nor there
the once green cornfields are now only haunting memories
like the love of my true love lost in the war of life
I walk into the corn rows and pose myself among 
the decaying stalks like the scarecrow that I am


and hang my head when even the crows laugh at my pain.






©by Voo

March 7, 2005
 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Insanity of the Tribes



         Earth Drum song



Insanity of the Tribes
             a collab result of......................
                  (Mental Wrestling across the Miles)


                     He

The water rippled across her back
Her long dark mane of hair a duck tail at the end
Drenched were we both in the stream
As I pulled her from the rivers edge
Coughing, we took stock of our wounds.

                   I

And I, in wet and wild dismay
Fought, not ungently, against the flow
Curious, bewildered, wanting, not wanting
Tasting water I had yet to drink
I found a kind of healing in your hands.

                       He

We breathed shallow on the banks
My love, an arrowhead buried in her thigh
The insanity of the tribes, my silent cry
And a small wince as I pulled it from her flesh
We held tight and I stopped the bleeding with clay and leaves.

                               I

You have hurt me, I said without accusation
For I did not know the ways of man,
The way of the warrior beyond my boundaries
You have torn me and healed me again
You, with the eyes of a tribe I've never touched.

                             He

There was a silence between my love and I 
We whispered  words together, with inaudible sound
As our flesh drew close, I said:
" I am a human being and I recognize nothing other than this love,
This need of you."

                                 He

On every side there flew the arrow
The sound of gunfire, the cry of pain
"Now we must run for our lives, my feathered princess
We must run like the wind
Away from your people and the encroachment of mine."

                                 I

And I, with my heart, acknowledged him
And all he said and did not say
For my father's fathers would not think sacred
The emerald grass on which we lay
Or that strange fire within our breasts.

                              I

His pale hand in my brown, we flew
Across the water and up towards the sky
Through waterfalls and ancient trails
Clinging to new love as old as time
It mattered not how futile seemed the flight.

            He

We flew through clusters of new-borne stars 
Into the eye of the dying sun
Melted down into the core of earth itself
And became a part of the living land
A new tribe, birthed, born out of time.

              I

For just as we, with feet of fire
Found our freedom, our paradise
Beyond the realm of tribe and troop,
The arrows of my father flew
The bullets of your companions sang.


             We

And into arms of soft, soft dream
We fell as one, with lover's cries
Our mouths went seeking,
Our hearts poured out,
Our eyes, not knowing how to say goodbye.

              We

Me, of the earth and of the sky
You, of the sea and distant shore
We lay in arms that felt like home
In a strange, new world
With our hearts knowing like silenced drums,
 We did not belong.




a collab across the miles

©by Voo and Rusky
finished May 16, 2010
3:23 p.m.



RUSSELL/RUSKY

and

 VOO



The Dream by John Trudell


Body Surfing on Ocean Beach




                            

Ocean Sounds                          



Body Surfing on Ocean Beach




Look! A falling star, I said
And as you turned, my lips caught you
In the hollow of your throat
It was midnight and the sand was warm
The sky was clear, the wine was cold
And you were the sweetest dream
I'd ever had.

Listen to the waves, I said
And as you listened, I heard my heart
Thunder louder than the highest tide
The ocean behind you in the moonlight glowed
And you smiled at me
Sparkling like a diamond
In my lonely eyes.

The beach was ours
The world was ours, so it appeared
And hand in hand, we walked
Till midnight died and left a hint of dawn
And we laughed and laughed till the puncture wounds
In both our hearts were mended
And we walked on.

Look! A falling star, you said
And as I looked, your lips caught me
On the mouth, my hungry mouth
And devoured me with your wanting
Hypnotic, lulling waves caressed our bodies
And we loved each other
As the tides swept out and back
Till break of day.





©by Voo
July 29, 07
2 a.m.