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The concept of a top ten, is a wonderful choice
For Joe Flach's contest, your words become your voice
Typically for me, music comes first
Below are my ten, please read and rejoice
In alphabetical order, these ten you may have heard
If you know the tunes, please sing along to the words
If I ever win the lottery, I shall book the Carnegie Hall
And invite all the Soupers to sing and have a ball
AC/DC, from the album "Let There Be Rock"
"Whole Lotta Rosie" with whom Bon Scott defrocked
Black Sabbath, from the album of the same name
Black Sabbath being the track, tolling bells in the falling rain
Deep Purple, with "Made in Japan" from the year 1972
"Smoke on the Water" resonates, Montreaux through and through
Ferry, Bryan, a Geordie, "Another Time, Another Place"
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" his voice in wonderful grace
Mellencamp, John Cougar, awesome with "The Golden Jubilee"
"Hot Dogs And Hamburgers" taking an Indian girls liberty
Pink Floyd, with their always inspirational "The Dark Side Of the Moon"
"Time" simply out of this world, eventually where we all go soon
Queen, Rock's Royalty, Queen II is the album for me
"Father to Son" to my father, I have grown up to be like he
Rush, the Canadian three piece, "Moving Pictures" from Toronto they are
"Red Barchetta" of Italian design, a gorgeous sleek sports car
Thin Lizzy, with their 1978 "Live and Dangerous" tour
"Emerald" with Gorham and Robertson, twin guitarists so pure
UFO - with their classic "Strangers in the Night"
"Love To Love" what a ballad, the Rock bands just get them so right
I cant breath
Nothing surprises me
Any more in a dying world
Even when my last breath
Means nothing to another man
My spirit never panic cos
It not strange
When life means nothing
To humans
In our dying world
I cant breath
The call for help
Is like just more or less
An echo in the air
Cos the hands to help
Are withhold from reaching
The world
Evil lives more than goods
Nowadays
So in all honesty
Nothing surprises me
Not any more in a dying world
Not even when my last breath
Is taken away by force
I cant breath
Cos the knees
Of the devil is on
A force to my air
The brutality I don't deserve
Makes me more breathless
In a dying world
Is sad to see how my people
Die like nothing
I ask only when it could stop
I ask Africa to demand
It respect back from the world
If not we still will
Be dying same like
Every other times like Floyd
Dying in brutal act of hatred
Destroyed by racism
Chase away from home
By tribalism
Trapped in injustice
Raped by the authorities
And killed by the knees
Of the one meant to protect
Your right
I wonder who cant breath
In this kind of world
"Haute Desiderata"
things of beauty
drip off bodies
transitory
le rêve privé
vague veil
reveals desiderata
transparent
magical
pomp
exotique
automaton
idle idol walk
robotic
sensuous
cool and vacant
such beauty
drips off bodies
transitory desiderata
elusive
illusory
birds of paradise
haughty
haute
pomp desiderata
gilded
graceful
incomplete
desiderata drifting
dwindling
desideratum
elusive
statues idyll
idle idol walk
numbing
comfortable
birds of paradise
les grand faux apparat
ad infinitum
mute Belle Époque
bardot bardo
comfortably numb
on repeat
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Schiaparelli
Haute Couture/ Fall-Winter 2022/2023
https://youtu.be/wiYtuhyj83s
“Comfortably Numb”/ Pink Floyd
https://youtu.be/_FrOQC-zEog
Desiderata
latin, meaning.
https://recollections.biz/blog/la-belle-epoque-beautiful-era/
"Desiderata" - meaning of the word; history of the poem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata-history.html
https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
Max Ehrmann, Poet, American - "Desiderata"
Terre Haute, Indiana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ehrmann
LYRICS/ "Comfortably Numb", Pink Floyd
https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-comfortably-numb-lyrics
Pink Floyd
Such cruel misery, shocking
Parents generation distanced themselves
"The Dark Side of the Moon"
Psychedelic rock,
they could not believe -
or did not want to believe
Hallucinogens on vinyl !
Surrealistic !
"Is There Anybody Out There?"
Worldwide recognition
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Pink Floyd - giants without a doubt
innovative in their; "Time"
"Oh, By the Way"
... "Have a Cigar"
For some I am your neighbor, that lives down the street. For others I am the one, that you are so afraid to meet.
For some I am your postman, that you wave to passing by. For others I am your stereotype, that you've been brainwashed to think that's why.
For some I am your friend, that you confide in and relate. For others I am your fear, that you teach your children to resent and hate.
For some I am your driver, that you speak to everyday. For others I am your degenerate, that you ridicule along the way.
For some I am your responder, that you call on when there's trouble. For others I am your blind spot, in the midst of the struggle.
For some I am your colleague, that you respect in a suit. For others I am your thug, that you indiscriminately repute.
For some I am your police officer, that you count on to serve and protect. For others I am your George Floyd... that was murdered with a knee to the neck.
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.
Not a tribute
More a melody of the songs, the words, and the melody
For if you have lived a few decades
The music box in your head
Has stored, sung, mixed and shared
It’s strange how your own mind
Plays DJ to its own kind
It sees a queue in front of you
And Don’t worry be Happy plays the tune
Cause when you worry, you frown and that will bring everybody down
And as it plays along, you can’t help but smile
And suddenly the queue is just you, it’s not a mile
It is wicked too, this DJ in the head
Straight in the middle of a lesson
It puts out loud
We don’t need no education
Yup, straight from days of Floyd
So much for thought control
It quickly shifts to bell bottoms and curls
With Starship blaring that they built their city on rock n roll
The head sends an impulse asap
Little wonder that the feet start to tap
It is just about anyone’s guess
Why on the hardest days
It sings life is a lesson you learn it when you through
From Linkin Park no less
And when you feel
Low on energy,
When fatigue envelops and you can’t run do more no way
It quickly acts up to play
How can you dance the pain away?
So whatever you do in life
Keeping adding to the music library in your head
It’s the different tunes from there
That sometimes makes all humans
Feel and sing as one
Form:
Martial law inapropos to stave, staunch,
and stem police brutality,
nevertheless commander in chief
will violently barrel ahead
particularly when blatant iniquities
flagrantly heaped upon
innocent dark skinned human bodies,
who far to often get accosted, beaten, choked
without justice, but
judged guilty merely existing.
Protestations within metropolitan urban areas
all across the United States
sparking riots else within world
began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020
following the death of George Floyd
coroners determine cause of death asphyxia
after Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer
Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck
for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Akin to striking a match
into highly flammable liquid
diverse people expressed legitimate rage
against machinations targeting humans,
whose obvious epidermal pigment
unwittingly sacrifices said
dark skinned people burnt offerings.
Sacrificial lambs only become martyrs,
yet sadly never realize their true value, nor
relish (hot diggity dog) purposefulness
cuz her/his mortality nipped in (figurative) bud
when precious life cruelly stolen.
As iterated courtesy similar
crafted by yours truly
persons falsely hash tagged recalcitrant
(predominantly boys and/or men)
exhibiting physiognomy proclaiming
African American, Australia,
Haiti, Melanesia, Papua
New Guinea and South Asia...
as motherland, more so
black immigrants comprise
growing proportion of said
racial (constituency) population.
Usually no culpability
linkedin with rudely mistreated individual,
whose inalienable (inherent) rights:
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
hijacked solely predicated upon bigotry.
("Under a Swirling Sky" 2013, original acrylic, pen and ink)
Crazy Diamonds
To ride with bliss and lie in peace
Is the measure of a life well lived.
Does this mean there will be no pain
As one goes from joy to joy?
Of course not, pain is the condition of all mortal beings
And remains even when suffering becomes optional.
But still anyone’s life is much more than pain and suffering,
And a well lived one is much more than just any mere mortal’s!
Without adversity we would never find our inner strength,
And without inner strength we would never persevere.
But persevere in what, to what end, you ask?
Here we enter the door to our own heart.
A door every hero knows is their own
While it serves the same purpose as any other.
Of all the sages perhaps Pink Floyd said it best,
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
And so what else is there to do, but shine, right now
To ride with bliss and rest in peace.
(7/22/24)
Two hundred fatalities, hundred more to die,
The number keeps growing.
unbridled guns in the hands of sadistic cops,
another victim on choke hold.
he is not of their coat,
no need for the court.
we go there to mourn,
and “justice” a mere joke.
another victim is their statistics,
they brought their ancestors with guns.
Led them forcefully through the seas,
They build the place you called home.
yet murders their children at random,
do they have another home?
They obliterate history and silence the offspring by murders.
he knelt his neck to the grave,
he dares his maker for justice,
A deliberate murder in modern America.
The stretcher was waiting,
cause they meant to kill him.
indeed they killed him,
ensure he died, as he cried helplessly to deaf ears.
This is how they kill us in turns,
And for same offences by Johnny
they look the other way.
Hey Johnny “stay cool” & stay safe.
But they snuff his life out.
Just because his coat is different
again they killed another, who is next?
Goodnight George Floyd