Monday, March 12, 2012
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Monday, April 18, 2011
All In The Dance
Front back slow fast moves
It’s how you start the trance
Impact steadfast groves
It’s all in the dance
Love lust sexuality
All in one glance
Just trust you’ll strut the moves
That’s all in the dance
Display or no show
Don’t forget about romance
Just take it slow
It’s all in the dance
Alone in the shadows
Ready to take a chance
Becoming one silhouette
That’s all in the dance
Eye to eye never like this
Perched together in a stance
One step closer and closer
It’s all in the dance
Music is always playing
Just waiting for you to prance
The melody keeps saying
Dance dance dance
Don’t miss a beat
Get ready take the chance
Just partner with the music
It’s all in the dance
Friday, March 18, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
January Afternoon
January winter afternoon
Powdery landscape that I saw
From a window where I’d taken lunch
Previous day snow not yet to thaw
Gently bouncing sparrows
Come upon branches to rest
In their tethered feathered coats
Worn proud upon their chests
Wind blown dried brown leaves
Curled tight in winter’s hold
Waiting for another spring
To free them from the cold
A single cheeky sparrow
Stares in outside the pane
Hopping upon the frosty snow
Such a moment has to wane
Behold a geometric building
Diagonally obstructs my view
Of a soft blue sky before me
Off Eight Avenue
Now I must leave
A passerby adorns a heavenly scent
I must go on my way
Now my time has been spent
The sun is getting ready
To change so very soon
From the way it had started
On this January afternoon
January winter afternoon
Powdery landscape that I saw
From a window where I’d taken lunch
Previous day snow not yet to thaw
Gently bouncing sparrows
Come upon branches to rest
In their tethered feathered coats
Worn proud upon their chests
Wind blown dried brown leaves
Curled tight in winter’s hold
Waiting for another spring
To free them from the cold
A single cheeky sparrow
Stares in outside the pane
Hopping upon the frosty snow
Such a moment has to wane
Behold a geometric building
Diagonally obstructs my view
Of a soft blue sky before me
Off Eight Avenue
Now I must leave
A passerby adorns a heavenly scent
I must go on my way
Now my time has been spent
The sun is getting ready
To change so very soon
From the way it had started
On this January afternoon
Fall From Grace
I know I will grow older
Maybe show it in my face
But let one thing be bolder
And always hold its place
So many things can change me
Through shame and through disgrace
But please don’t let it make me
Don’t let me fall from grace
If I take away these garments
These possessions have no name
And like I who chose to wear them
Cannot go back whence they came
As I live through all tomorrows
And my feelings get displaced
Years can bring much sorrow
Don’t let me fall from grace
If I become old and forgetful
Let me keep my manners and ways
And if everything I had is gone
From all those early days
Let me remain most gracious
Let me be the same
It is what others will remember
When they speak my name
I’m beginning now to notice
It is something that should be shared
It’s a precious thing that’s lost on some
It’s one thing I do want spared
I see it gone in others
I see it on your face
But please don’t let me be like that
Don’t let me fall from grace
I know I will grow older
Maybe show it in my face
But let one thing be bolder
And always hold its place
So many things can change me
Through shame and through disgrace
But please don’t let it make me
Don’t let me fall from grace
If I take away these garments
These possessions have no name
And like I who chose to wear them
Cannot go back whence they came
As I live through all tomorrows
And my feelings get displaced
Years can bring much sorrow
Don’t let me fall from grace
If I become old and forgetful
Let me keep my manners and ways
And if everything I had is gone
From all those early days
Let me remain most gracious
Let me be the same
It is what others will remember
When they speak my name
I’m beginning now to notice
It is something that should be shared
It’s a precious thing that’s lost on some
It’s one thing I do want spared
I see it gone in others
I see it on your face
But please don’t let me be like that
Don’t let me fall from grace
The Swan
An autumn breeze
A rising sun
Just her life
As it begun
Has a die been cast
Can it be done
Can she be
The dearest one
No special place
No special song
In a world sometimes
Where she doesn’t belong
While she grows
My pretty one
She can’t be
With just anyone
In her pond and river
That goes upstream
She just passes through
As if in a dream
Don’t ruffle her plumage
This lovely one
With flights of fancy
That are only for fun
Dainty and gracious
But yet not to boast
She’ll blend well with others
But still unlike most
In puddles and ripples
She still wants to dance
It muddles and cripples
If she won’t take the chance
Not a bird of a feather
Where all seem so rife
Still charting her course
Through her river of life
Be like the lovely
And then just go on
You can be like the others
Or just be the swan
An autumn breeze
A rising sun
Just her life
As it begun
Has a die been cast
Can it be done
Can she be
The dearest one
No special place
No special song
In a world sometimes
Where she doesn’t belong
While she grows
My pretty one
She can’t be
With just anyone
In her pond and river
That goes upstream
She just passes through
As if in a dream
Don’t ruffle her plumage
This lovely one
With flights of fancy
That are only for fun
Dainty and gracious
But yet not to boast
She’ll blend well with others
But still unlike most
In puddles and ripples
She still wants to dance
It muddles and cripples
If she won’t take the chance
Not a bird of a feather
Where all seem so rife
Still charting her course
Through her river of life
Be like the lovely
And then just go on
You can be like the others
Or just be the swan
When I was Small
Awakened in a giant bed
Hills and mountains
Of covers
On my head
Cloud-size pillows
Propped up there
A long climb down
From way up here
My shoes like islands
On a carpeted land
As I am but
The size of sand
Four cornered sky
When up I look
And towering horizontal shelves
Sandwiched in between are my books
Multicolored fabrics
Hung in a pose
Something for a giant
These are my clothes
Of all the things
That I could be
If only just larger
Where I can see
Those all around me
They’re not my height
Won’t think to look for me
Where I’ll stay for the night
Then I closed my eyes
And I sank down so deep
That I drifted away
And started to sleep
Then I had a dream
That I’d become tall
But that was then
When I was small
Awakened in a giant bed
Hills and mountains
Of covers
On my head
Cloud-size pillows
Propped up there
A long climb down
From way up here
My shoes like islands
On a carpeted land
As I am but
The size of sand
Four cornered sky
When up I look
And towering horizontal shelves
Sandwiched in between are my books
Multicolored fabrics
Hung in a pose
Something for a giant
These are my clothes
Of all the things
That I could be
If only just larger
Where I can see
Those all around me
They’re not my height
Won’t think to look for me
Where I’ll stay for the night
Then I closed my eyes
And I sank down so deep
That I drifted away
And started to sleep
Then I had a dream
That I’d become tall
But that was then
When I was small
Passport
Grant me another passport
Place it in my hands
Granted I can further my journey
Traveling to foreign lands
Much longer I’ll want adventure
Sailing across the sea
Longing for someone to sail with
Come sail along with me
Come sail in my painted felucca
Like tourists we’ll make them smile
Maybe pose for us in a picture or two
As we continue down the Nile
Grant me another page in my passport
Another place I won’t forget
A mystical sojourn to always remember
And the strangers that I met
Come away with me to another world
Antarctica, India, Angkor Wat
And places not written on any map
A terra firma that time forgot
Another page in my passport
Will not need a stamp
Like inside of a darkened cavern
Come along and be my lamp
Come go with me and together
We’ll take it day by day
And with each other always
Someone to light the way
Come along with me
Until there’s no more room to spare
In our worn out tattered passports
That are far beyond repair
Grant us another passport
Until our lives are done
We’ll have seen many moons rising
Until we see our setting sun
Grant me another passport
Place it in my hands
Granted I can further my journey
Traveling to foreign lands
Much longer I’ll want adventure
Sailing across the sea
Longing for someone to sail with
Come sail along with me
Come sail in my painted felucca
Like tourists we’ll make them smile
Maybe pose for us in a picture or two
As we continue down the Nile
Grant me another page in my passport
Another place I won’t forget
A mystical sojourn to always remember
And the strangers that I met
Come away with me to another world
Antarctica, India, Angkor Wat
And places not written on any map
A terra firma that time forgot
Another page in my passport
Will not need a stamp
Like inside of a darkened cavern
Come along and be my lamp
Come go with me and together
We’ll take it day by day
And with each other always
Someone to light the way
Come along with me
Until there’s no more room to spare
In our worn out tattered passports
That are far beyond repair
Grant us another passport
Until our lives are done
We’ll have seen many moons rising
Until we see our setting sun
We Are Not Here to Stay
So intertwined we are duly
As we go from day to day
Each morning there’s a sun newly
Starting whatever come what may
All the things we hold so dearly
So clever in our hand
Do not stay forever clearly
Do we really understand
Those lovely things we cherish
Is what others envy for
Even flowers perish
This we know for sure
So much time spent on living
So little time to give away
No time to spend on giving
We are not here to stay
Things we can’t keep never
These things will pass away
If eternity is forever
We are not here to stay
Despite all the ensuing chaos
Tomorrow is on its way
Can you hear it in my voice
We are not here to stay
Have another walk in the sunshine
Take that extra golden ray
Take the chance live a little
We are not here to stay
So easy to forget about happiness
Even easier to regret the past
Some days are meant to spend right now
Others to live like the last
When we are left the living
From those who pass away
It again occurs to me
We are not here to stay
So intertwined we are duly
As we go from day to day
Each morning there’s a sun newly
Starting whatever come what may
All the things we hold so dearly
So clever in our hand
Do not stay forever clearly
Do we really understand
Those lovely things we cherish
Is what others envy for
Even flowers perish
This we know for sure
So much time spent on living
So little time to give away
No time to spend on giving
We are not here to stay
Things we can’t keep never
These things will pass away
If eternity is forever
We are not here to stay
Despite all the ensuing chaos
Tomorrow is on its way
Can you hear it in my voice
We are not here to stay
Have another walk in the sunshine
Take that extra golden ray
Take the chance live a little
We are not here to stay
So easy to forget about happiness
Even easier to regret the past
Some days are meant to spend right now
Others to live like the last
When we are left the living
From those who pass away
It again occurs to me
We are not here to stay
Land upon the Ocean
Such terror have befallen them
Pales in comparison you see
To all what we thought we couldn’t live without
Let’s not dare complain this is no travesty
Luck has been no lady
For high lands were not to be found
Poor island dwell of Haiti
Stripped needlessly bare to the ground
The cries don’t go unanswered
There are those for it’s been too late
Seems sinister and crippling
And still many who have to wait
I cannot know their suffering
For I have not lost a friend
Nor destruction have surrounded me
Will their darkness ever end
Makes one sigh in wonder
Yet beyond just disbelief
For some the suffering goes on and on
For many life was just so brief
Land upon the ocean
How has it come to this
I shudder to think of just little things lost
Can’t imagine what your trembling world will miss
Such terror have befallen them
Pales in comparison you see
To all what we thought we couldn’t live without
Let’s not dare complain this is no travesty
Luck has been no lady
For high lands were not to be found
Poor island dwell of Haiti
Stripped needlessly bare to the ground
The cries don’t go unanswered
There are those for it’s been too late
Seems sinister and crippling
And still many who have to wait
I cannot know their suffering
For I have not lost a friend
Nor destruction have surrounded me
Will their darkness ever end
Makes one sigh in wonder
Yet beyond just disbelief
For some the suffering goes on and on
For many life was just so brief
Land upon the ocean
How has it come to this
I shudder to think of just little things lost
Can’t imagine what your trembling world will miss
Michael Jackson
Our hearts have been broken
How can this be today
Seems so quick you passed this world
Since you went away
It’s so incomprehensible
How long did it take
For our minds to tell us
It is true there’s no mistake
It’s like everyone has felt it
A tremendous personal loss
Now we know that some gifts aren’t free
When it’s our hearts that pay the cost
You tried to fix a broken world
So we could all belong
You paid your dues and so much more
You sang more than just a song
We will remember today
Yesterday and you of way back when
But we will never see
The likes of you again
How we will long to see
The show that must go on
How we will want to hear
The songs and you perform
You have given us a moment
And a place and time with you to share
But now all is left is music
Sadly you won’t be there
We want to come and see you
We’re screaming out your name
The stage has all been set up
But you never came
Patiently we could wait
But it’s just an act of love
Just one more peek from under your hat
And a wave from your silver glove
What about those moonwalks
Since you are not around
We are trying to get our footing
So we won’t keep losing ground
It wasn’t just a space walk
That may sound out of tune
As far as I can see
No one’s walking on the moon
Your young voice of innocence
Make our eyes well up with tears
There will be an emptiness
For years and years and years.
I’ll cherish the times I saw you
That now seems bittersweet
We’re left alone while you’ve gone home
Goodbye to Jackson Street
We will miss your natural appeal
We will miss your star attraction
We will remember you always
And always Michael Jackson
Our hearts have been broken
How can this be today
Seems so quick you passed this world
Since you went away
It’s so incomprehensible
How long did it take
For our minds to tell us
It is true there’s no mistake
It’s like everyone has felt it
A tremendous personal loss
Now we know that some gifts aren’t free
When it’s our hearts that pay the cost
You tried to fix a broken world
So we could all belong
You paid your dues and so much more
You sang more than just a song
We will remember today
Yesterday and you of way back when
But we will never see
The likes of you again
How we will long to see
The show that must go on
How we will want to hear
The songs and you perform
You have given us a moment
And a place and time with you to share
But now all is left is music
Sadly you won’t be there
We want to come and see you
We’re screaming out your name
The stage has all been set up
But you never came
Patiently we could wait
But it’s just an act of love
Just one more peek from under your hat
And a wave from your silver glove
What about those moonwalks
Since you are not around
We are trying to get our footing
So we won’t keep losing ground
It wasn’t just a space walk
That may sound out of tune
As far as I can see
No one’s walking on the moon
Your young voice of innocence
Make our eyes well up with tears
There will be an emptiness
For years and years and years.
I’ll cherish the times I saw you
That now seems bittersweet
We’re left alone while you’ve gone home
Goodbye to Jackson Street
We will miss your natural appeal
We will miss your star attraction
We will remember you always
And always Michael Jackson
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