I know I’ll be painting, writing and sharing from this heartsong, instilling this also with my energy and essence. I see many many pieces to come, I see so very many people to touch, who need that touch that is so uniquely me. I sense, with the utmost breathless anticipation, many...
“In 1975… I was home in Peoria, Illinois visiting my family for Christmas. I went to a convenience store to pick up some whipping cream to make Irish coffees with, and quite unexpectedly ran into an old high school girlfriend. The rest of the song tells the story.” ...
I have to turn my whole visual attention away from the performers to catch snatches of the text: Mistah Kurtz-he dead/A penny for the Old Guy”/ / Remember us-if at all-not as lost/In death's dream kingdomThis is cactus land/As the perpetual star. I realize with emotion that this...
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through...
Without a will to mention every stupid goddamn thing I have made these damn-near-20 past years could ever have me draw, I am a weaver of phrases. I inert in case to survive. Even if that makes no sense. My mixes mostly don’t make sense. I don’t craft a song the way most en...
to an idea. Franklin Roosevelt achieved more dramatic impact by saying “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy . . .” than if he had omitted the date. Similarly, Martin Luther King, Jr. derived symbolic effect in his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech when refer...
I am large, I contain multitudes.-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" Welcome to the first We Write Poems weekly prompt of April! This month, I intend to take you all on a journey through themes — themes which inform the very craft of poetry in which we engage. ...
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“Got a dream to take them there / They’re coming to America / Got a dream they’ve come to share / They’re coming to America/ Somesongs are about the dream of the American Dream, one that perhaps did not happen. In his song, “American Tune” famous singer/songwriter Paul Simon...