Thursday, June 27, 2013

THE ROAD AT DUSK

Thank you, Gianluca Penzo, for sending me this photo.  I love it.  It's magic.
         
          Thoughts of owls and bats and things                          Harvest moon rises high on high
          Guide me faeries to your ring.                                     A Golden orb in a sapphire sky.
          Setting sun shines down the lane                                 Nightwings singing songs of fate
          Rays of light begin to wane.                                        Bewitches any answering mate.
          Waving trees in evening's breezes                               Lustful songs full of burning
          Shadows into twilight eases.                                       Swirling swirling midnight's yearning
          Dusky road leads into night                                         Moonbeams light the midnight sky
          Rolling on and out of sight.                                          Whispering softness sleep is nigh.

Photo shared from Cartoon Yourself  appearing on FB 6-26-13
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

BERMUDA TRIANGLE



Maelstrom, Tumult, and Clamor
Wave arms and move the clouds
Swirling swirling the vortices
Calling to the winds
Calling to the waves
Keening keening
The Sirens roar
Come to us
The sirens whisper
Rest here
Stay with us
Rest here
Lost forever.





Monday, June 17, 2013

A MONKEY CHAIR


In the chair that Daddy made

Come little one and sit
Have a cookie with a chocolate chip
On a little plate with 'nanna slices
And a cup of cold cold milk.

Sing a song about Yabba Dabba
Say UUH UUH UUH!
Say AHH AHH AHH!
Laugh and laugh
An scratch your sides

In the chair that Daddy made.


Thursday, June 13, 2013

"ALL GROWTH IS A LEAP IN THE DARK" Henry Miller

And that's what some good stories are all about.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland began with a trip down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass.  "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small and the one's that mother gives you don't do anything at all." from the song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.

Wendy and her brother's adventure began by following Peter Pan out of the nursery window at bedtime and flying on pixie dust to a land among the stars.  She mothered lost boys and loved Peter but grew up and left childhood behind........originally a play written by J.M. Barrie

How many suspensions of disbelief began in the dark of the Twilight Zone?

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone."......Rod Serling.


A Yankee from Connecticut learned a lot about himself in King Arthur's Court and that even though you might know what the future brings you can't change the past.   A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a novel by Mark Twain.

In Brigadoon a Scottish town appears for one day every hundred years and the modern character Tommie who accidently wanders in falls in love with a girl and the town and finds "when you love someone deeply enough anythin' is possible.  Even miracles."  Originally a play, then a Vincent Minelli  film with music by Lerner and Lowe.

L. Frank Baum's Oz is the penultimate leap into the dark and coming out on the other side with a new understanding of life.  Everyone gets what they want but must fight hard to attain it....a heart, a brain, and courage....and there's no place like home.  The movie with Judy Garland is in my top ten if not my most best loved film.






Tuesday, June 11, 2013

THE BREW THAT IS TRUE

"DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE FIRE BURN, AND CAULDRON BUBBLE.
FILLET OF FENNY SNAKE,  IN THE CAULDRON BOIL AND BAKE;
EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG,
ADDER'S FORK, AND BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S  LEG ,AND OWLET'S WING,-
FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE,
DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE; FIRE BURN, AND CAULDRON BUBBLE."
From Hamlet by
William Shakespeare

FROM THE COURT JESTER WITH DANNY KAYE - A movie

......for Rich, Ray, and Rod

         
I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.



Tuesday, June 4, 2013

THE NEW NORMAL

I




On a tightrope strung
From pillar to post
Reaching.......


Come here go there
Whirling wildly flailing
Failing to catch the ring
Again.......                          








STAR CROSSED


I would time travel to be with you,
Would circle the earth to be with you,
Journey through the cosmos to be with you,
And die a thousand deaths to be with you.
Be with me.

I will be with you in the moment
Or the hour or for all eternity and
Ever and ever and tomorrow.
Be with me.

Time won't wait
For star crossed lovers.
Be with me.
























Sunday, June 2, 2013

TO DREAM

Pray now, a dream, my mind what's there?
A peek in the recesses most lucid.