What Crosses My Mind

  • Working On A Love Story

    It’s true I might have one, I heard about it on the radio, you know one of that, one and done love me rodeo. ~ See these two people can listen that’s exactly who they are  nothing more to hide behind when you know love just can’t get far. ~ They stood on the street…

  • “I Read The News Today, Oh Boy” – John Lennon

    He always did have a reason to speak, when his lyrics would wind our mind, “Watching the wheels turn,” he seemed clearly in command of his time, While we the listeners would be in a constant trance, a mellow sweet remind How easily his lyrical mastery could make a dull afternoon be sublime.   Often…

  • Wonder Wheel

    A melody in a state of mind, a thought motivates a certain disc, recording, desire to hear a nostalgic notion. Used to be we would carefully, lift the cover off our lives, to keep the dust away, listen for hours to a melody that suggests we live this way, in a rhythmic trance, a desired…

  • Old Songs

    Old lyrics, old words, same outcome, I could listen to Janis Ian all night long, talk about being ‘seventeen’ growing up, she brings tears to my eyes, I can’t exactly tell you why, perhaps it is a memory, maybe nostalgic, there are so many lives I’d wish to live again, and music, like Carly Simon…

  • Music, Please! (Random Notes)

    I remember There were days like these Soft mornings, just waking Eyes adjusting The steady fog of reality Waiting in the silence Laying in bed only to begin wondering again What shall I do Who might I become How could I even begin The eyes have certainly stepped in ~ …and then the music began…

  • Don’t let me die in a sidewalk café (inspired by an elder gent sleeping away)

    When the sun begins to set if you see me Slumped over and holding onto my knees While the world continues to pursue real Life situations that matter to them today ~ Don’t let me die in a sidewalk café The embarrassment of caffeine on My blue jeans while everyone stared Would be too much…