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Premium Member Albatross

You float and soar the skies
riding the winds thermals
vast oceans you travel
majestic and mysterious

Thought by mariners of old
to be a harbinger of death
the sight of you a sign of doom
a bird bringing ill fate

How could anything so beautiful
have earned such ill repute
yet mariners feared you the most
and signed themselves with the cross

Albatross as you soar up high
you take my heart with your beauty
on your endless wanderings
and fill my heart with delight

For me the sight gladdens my very soul
as you silently glide above
your wings dazzling white in the sun
truly you are a Spirit Bird

30/05/2013 

contest Mood Music

long before he started Fleetwood Mac I knew Mac I have always thought Albatross to be the most beautiful haunting piece of music ever I would die happily to its notes Did you know that Mac did not think it good enough for release? Lucky for us the record company thought differently.


Rearrange

The skyline overseas,
The starlight’s not empty
Just freedom
Just freedom
No hurt, work out our careers
Fleetwood Mac is all I hear
David Bowie playing, nice and loud
Hurt, we can’t allow

The stars are full,
No time to sleep
Freedom’s all we need
No hurt, we work on our careers
Music’s all we hear
David Bowie playing, nice and loud
Hurt, we can’t allow

Just ride into the sun,
Freedom

Lessons, we’re learning
Step into sun
Meeting, retreating
A lost history
If on edge,
Will I learn how to just be?

Lean on it. Love it. Live in history.
Keep it. Believe it. Stood still, retreat.
Just a young girl,
With no,
Purpose to be
Trees changing, exchanging
Their colours, they blur
Elated, showcasing
Their gift to the world
If I believe it,
Then will it work?
Or will I live out my life
Rearranging the hurt?

She’s laughing,
And I’m laughing
Just like she’s alive
A sunken spirit
Uplifted the skies
If I believe it,
Then will it work?
Or will I live out my life
Rearranging the hurt?

Driving faster,
Songs blaring
We sing along
No hurting, just Fleetwood
Our favourite songs
If I believe it,
Then will it work?
Or will I live out my life
Rearranging the hurt?

Will I live out my life
Rearranging the hurt?
Form: Rhyme

Markie's Advice

His future was assured. I’ll tell you why.
His father owned “Repairs and Parts Supply”.
Though only twelve, already Markie could
your median income at a glance descry
and whistle as he raised your engine’s hood.

With me, he mastered nothing. Didn’t try.
What need had he for Treaties of Versailles?
Before he came to school he’d greet the crew
he knew he would inherit, by and by,
and sell a solenoid – or maybe two.

My classroom, in those days, happened to lie
across the schoolyard. Out of habit, I
arrived before the others. There I’d sit
completely unobserved by prying eye,
and grade some papers, daydream how to quit.

Young Markie would approach me on the sly,
just me and him, alone at Fleetwood High: 
his head appeared around my door to shout
(it never varied – what a funny guy)
“Just sort your life out, sir!” and then run out.

Some jokes are full-on funny, some are wry:
and humour sometimes makes us want to cry:
our choices, often hard to justify.
My friends all wish, and say so with a sigh,		
I’d followed Markie’s counsel. So do I.

Sunrise Woman

Hello sunrise woman,
bring your perfect light right here to me

Start the new day calling,
soft upon a breeze so warm and free

Let me feel your whispers,
warm against my skin this summer day

Take me with you,
down along a stream where we can play 

Beneath these heavens so blue,
dreaming of you,
seeing every beauty above

Sweet like the dawning dew,
everything new,
here in every moment I love

Tell me all your secrets,
say to me what no one else can hear

Whisper softly,
let me feel your sunrise shimmers near

Hold me closely, 
in your arms of fragrance on the air

Say you love me,
in these hours the two of us now share 

Now let me know your kiss,
one I will miss,
more than anything I can know

Then lay me down to sleep,
always to keep,
visions of your soft morning glow

Hello sunrise woman...



Watching Fleetwood Mac in concert, Stevie singing Gold Dust Woman as I wrote this. :)
Form: Rhyme

The Great Gig in the Sky

The recent, decent, authorised remaster -
now deeper, fuller, meaningfully vaster,
it’s done its fifty years – this one’s a laster!
I don’t care if you’re reggaeton or Rasta,
you worship Satan, Seti, Zoroaster -
just play this baby for your priest or pastor –
it’s early Fleetwood Mac, but cooler, faster –
so get it grooving on your ghetto blaster!
Abandon Grand Theft Auto, drop your Dune,
and scrap your Patti Smith and Patti Boone: 
just get more Gilmour (boy, that boy can croon!)
and Roger Waters, nicely out of tune:
the rest is paltry. Daltrey’s picayune.
I’ll meet you on the Dark Side of the Moon!
Form: Sonnet


Premium Member late

Evening was upon us and we were running late.
Our reservation at the Hôtel de Paris Saint-Tropez,
was for 9:15 pm. 

Be not careless with time
for you will be judged.

My favorite garms for Héraclée eveningwear, are 
a sleeveless white linen tee-shirt over linen shorts.
That works perfectly well in the bars and dance clubs 
but not the luxe, formally inclined, la-tee-da Hôtel de Paris. 

Let custom serve reason, not smother it,
Let obedience not be given to feed another’s pride.

We had rushed from a kite show on the beach.
We were eyed and side eyed - like sketch vagrants -
but not denied a table off front-of-house eye-lines.

You can’t look askance at beachwear, on a Riviera, 
in a beach town. I was honestly dressed for vacation moments.

later..
I was dropped into a conversation
with a guy in a bar Peter and I were at.

When talking to rando guys in bars
I give them one of my more boring, 
backup personalities.

Anyway, this guy was saying that
dating is now a “rich person’s game.”

I get it, things are bad all over, but here
he is, in the Saint-Tropez Lounge Club,
buying ‘Pornstar Martinis’ at €22 a pop.

Isn’t he actively funding his problem?

Couldn’t he bring a date and buy twice
as many basic martinis at €10? 

In the dating market, we all hope to be chosen.

Status anxieties often speak for themselves.
In courting, glitter isn’t always persuasive.

When I met Peter, he was a penniless doctoral student,
existing on a meager stipend and part time jobs. 

When in doubt, try authenticity or charm, 
both are stylish coping mechanisms.
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Songs for this:
Someday, Someway by Marshall Crenshaw
Silver Heels by Fleetwood Mac

The Universe and the Albatross

Set to the Albatross, by Fleetwood Mac. (Hum along).

On love and astral travelling,
Through the stars we're wandering,
On the Universe we're pondering,
My eternal love, Napoleon,
Intangible man, but full of fun,
Our jewelled cloak of stars,
We've journeyed from afar,
Shape shifting, glittering,
On love and astral travelling,
I'm no Carlos Santana,
I have no scarlet bandana,
I am the oestrogen,
Old Josephine,
Where haven't we been?
I have no testosterone,
You're my "Yes, master," Napoleon.....
On love and astral travelling,
Sentimentally wandering,
Are you Angelus or Incubus?
Reminiscing, reflecting-----
Comical groupies for loving,
On love and astral travelling.......

Premium Member Singers of Blues

Billy Ray Cyrus sings of a state of mind
      Donovan of periwinkle shells
            The Bionaut's of streams aquamarine
      
Paul McCarty rocked about those bells
      Carole King about a royal hue
            Frank Sinatra croons of sapphire skies

Fleetwood Mac has album Cerulean
      Brian Wilson cries of shades of eyes
            Blu Cantrell of cobalt powder
       
Big Moe has lyrics about teal green
       Double Trouble turquoise teardrops
            Jake Bugg beautiful indigo horizons


July 15, 2016


Brevity in Blue Contest by Dale Gregory Cozart
Fifth Place

Landslide By Fleetwood Mac


I took my love, I took it down   Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the*   snow covered hill
'Til the landslide brought me down    Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons    of my life?         Mmm
Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'  'Cause I built my life around you
But time makes bolder  children get older
And I'm gettin' older, too 2x 
Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'  'Cause I built my life around you
But as time makes you bolder   children get older
And I'm gettin' older too,   I'm gettin' older, too
take my love and take it down     you climb a mountain you turn around
if you see my reflection in a snow covered hill
the landslide brought it down
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well, a landslide brought it down, let the landslide bring it down. 


Note to readers, the lyrics are not my own, but property of Fleetwood Mac 
as title suggests.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Jukebox

The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead

Suzi Quatro, Styx, Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush

Freda Payne, The Brothers Four
Dolly Parton, Sandie Shaw

The Jackson Five and Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Presley, Slade and Queen

David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Sweet
Rose Royce, Madness and The Beat

Dusty Springfield, Fox, Nick Drake
Neil Sedaka, Sparks, Greg Lake

Three Dog Night and The Ramones
Pink Floyd and The Undertones

Blue Öyster Cult, The Dave Clark Five
Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Golden Earring, Argent and
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Mott The Hoople, E.L.O
Dr. Hook and Status Quo

Skeeter Davis, Iggy Pop
Alice Cooper, ZZ Top

The Rev. Al Green and Steeley Dan
The Who, The Jam and Steeleye Span

The Monkees, Abba, Cream and Free
Lynyrd Skynrd, 10CC

Renaissance, Blondie and The Clash
The Faces, Love and Wishbone Ash

The Moody Blues, Deep Purple, Mud
Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Bob Dylan and The Shangri Las
The Kinks. The Birds. The Doors. The Cars

The Seekers and Roberta Flack
The Drifters, T. Rex, Fleetwood Mac

Tina Turner, Prince, James Brown
..And all the music from Motown.
Form: Rhyme

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