Category: music

Song Rewrite: No Snow (originally No Phone by Cake)

image link We got a little snow earlier this week, but I looked out this morning and all of it has melted.  You know how your mind can play off of things and turn them in a new way?  This morning, Cake’s song, “No Phone” became “No Snow.”  Hope you enjoy it and maybe, like…

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Winter Solstice — Touji form

winter solstice bells ring out with knowingtall candles light each windowtoasts to lengthening days Since I used the dodoitsu for #10, I’ll use the kimo form for this week.kigo:  winter solsticeColleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday.

Holiday Season Playlist 2024

I’ve taken some songs off and added a few more to the holiday spotify playlist.  Have been listening to it on repeat to try and conjure some season’s spirit. 

dVerse Poetics — still fight

still fight despitea world of tearsstill fightinvest in lightdetach from fearsdespitehuman tends to frightof looking into mirrorsstill fightsoul’s blightagainst vampyrsdespitedearth of brightheart bruised by cavalierstill fightwith grace-infused mightwith faith in mercy’s seerdespitestill fight I loosely modeled this after Henley’s poem, “Invictus.” Also Maya Angelou’s, “Still I Rise.” Villanelle form Dora is today’s host of dVerse’…

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dVerse Q214 — Buffet

BuffettOur first date:you, egg foo yung;I, bang bang shrimp.Our palates different,yet we merried well.We bathed in bananasplits; yet can lifebe one big dessert?We buffeted until best used by; nothingleft but the tumsand some toothpicks. Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Punam would like us to write a 44-word poem using the word, bang.

Hiatt’s (and Mike Porter’s,) “Tennessee Plates”

image link Since blue-tooth is out AGAIN in the car, I’ve been listening to CD’s, including, “Hiatt Comes Alive at Budokan?,” which is neither a tribute to Peter Frampton nor recorded in Japan.  You know the origin of the title by now (if you don’t please look it up.)  The live album was released in…

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