I Breathe You In: 200
As the ethereal guitar mesmerises
My soul responds
As if I dipped into a melodic bath
Of perfectly curated
Lovingly tempered
Heart massaging
Candle flickering
Water
A fragrant tune invades
My nostrils
Flaring as the warm
Moistened air tumbles by
The world merges into
Perfection
Harmony
Stirring
The resonance
Of childhood memory
Percolating through the mist
As sliding strings
Caress my ears
My mind drifting
Towards that past
Safer place
Yet this mesmerising
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Categories:
pink floyd, blessing, dream, guitar, happy,
Form: Free verse
The Endless River Flows
("Gravity's Rainbow", 2017, original encaustic)
The Endless River Flows
Everywhere sheep being led to slaughter
Everywhere the innocent seduced
Everywhere someone crying
While another looking up
Into open skies
As unspoken questions arise unbidden
These are the times of change and revelation
As demons are given form
To be confronted
As closets empty into streets
Overflowing
With the blessing of abundant matter
As everyone struggles to
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Categories:
pink floyd, imagination, inspiration, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Pink Floyd
PS Friends,
We all know some of the greatest poetry is in popular songs. Some of my inspiration comes from music. So I thought I would share this wonderful write by Pink Floyd. Find it on U Tube and ENJOY!
So,
So you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell?
Blue skies from pain?
Can you
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Categories:
pink floyd, inspiration, music,
Form: Free verse
The Needle Pushes: An Ode To the Pink Floyd Song Comfortably Numb
the needle pushes in her face
a kiss and the wall scratches
higher naked searching cracks
for an exit you scream soldiers
planes flash back and forth flying
a room fills with angry anxious
voices shadows growing tall
corpses rise flowers swallow
space white crosses over graves
praying mantis mothers explode
down the endless fluorescent
hall your lifted into the
long black limo ripping
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Categories:
pink floyd, music, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
" Keep Talking " By Pink Floyd
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination.
We learned to talk.
These are the words spoken by Stephen Hawking on Pink Floyd's track Keep Talking
from the Album - Division Bell from 1994.
Is it not a sad indictment on us humans, that we were graced
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Categories:
pink floyd, animals, history, hope, music,
Form: Narrative