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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Kisses

and then you brought me


a basket of warm kisses


through long years of snow





Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Price You Pay




Rubies sapphire diamonds and gold
Had that money, all the money my hands could hold.
Had a nice place, such a fine life, flood stole it away.
Ain't nothing mine now, ain't nothing left, but hell to pay.

Baby cried, sweet mama screamed when the black water came.
"Oh Lord," I prayed, wash me clean, just don't wash them away.
It's hard to live, so hard to give, even harder to breathe,
When you've lost all you love, everything you need.

All dem riches that shine today
Sure ain't worth the price you pay.
Your brightest dream is sure to fade
The more you hold on the more it slip away.

Now she's gone, it's so hard to start over again.
I don't know why mean old blues claims to be my friend.
I got a song deep in my heart, I still need to sing.
It’s all that stops the flood of tears when memories come again.

It's all changed all brand new now I'm back to stay.
All I owned, it owned me, just wasted my day.
Them that got, they still got, they got everything.
Us without, all we got is what the morning bring.

All dem riches that shine today
Sure ain't worth the price you pay.
Your brightest dream is sure to fade
The more you hold on the more it slip away.

Rubies sapphire diamonds and gold
Take that money, it's just money, you'll never take my soul.
Next time I build, I'll build my house of heart and stone.
I'll make my home /atop the hill, rest my tired bones.

All dem riches that shine today
Sure ain't worth the price you pay.
Your brightest dream is sure to fade
The more you hold on the more it slip away.






Saturday, January 8, 2011

I Miss You

(January 3, 2011)

It is the month of ravens, the season
of liquid light.  It has been a long year
for golden tigers, and I cannot bear
to be without you for another day.
My tracks freeze in their place, there is no more
getting away.  Even my shadow is
brittle.  In the great spruce behind our house,
three ravens squeak rusty nails out of iced
bark with their cawing, change positions as
they ladder up branch by branch, but the one,
I think female, is first to find the top.
Yesterday, after the snow came, the sun,
behind a wispy smudge of cloud, shimmered
dreamy and moonlike, and a lone eagle

wove its way across the steel wool sky like
the shuttle of a loom.  It is the month
of coal, of burning cold.  The charred raven
brings its gift of fire to all those who
freeze.  The crystal sunlight turns into ash.
I am left to ask, “What brings you to me
in the night?  Will the knit of need and knot
of time hold only when arms and legs are
woven tight?”  My fabric frays without you.
Here in the slant burn of the winter sun,
in the black and gray grit of frozen thaw,
I climb the stark tree of mind, limb by limb,
into the murky sky.  Each day away
from you, I ache in the hollow of my bones.

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See the vidoe version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odVZQSWwgM








Saturday, January 1, 2011

My Will Is Gone

The stars are melting / I’m a going home (2x)
The wind is moaning / don’t wanna be alone


Come on baby / be my port in the storm (2x)
Won’t you love me / while my will is gone


I need your fire / to light up this hole (2x)
I need your loving / to fill up my soul


You love to tease me / but you sure can please (2x)
Come on baby / put my mind at ease


Say you love me / it won’t last too long (2x)
I’d say I’m sorry / but I've done no wrong


Come on baby / help me ride this storm (2x)
Won’t you love me / while my will is gone


My will is gone