Wednesday, July 15, 2009

"Ring Of Fire" by June Carter Cash

Love is a burning thing

And it makes a fiery ring

Bound by wild desire

I fell in to a ring of fire


I fell in to a burning ring of fire

I went down down down...and the flames went higher

And it burns...burns ...burns

The ring of fire

The ring of fire


The taste of love is sweet

When hearts like ours meet

I fell for you like a child

Oh...but the fire went wild

I fell into a burning ring of fire

I went down down down ...and the flames went higher

And it burns burns burns

The ring of fire

This ring of fire

Saturday, July 11, 2009

"Locomotion"

When I was a little girl , after my parents divorced, we went to live with my grandmother and uncle in a little coal mining town in Pennsylvania called Brady's Bend. My grandfather was a coal miner. My uncle owned a little hotel and bar where all the local miners would come after a grueling days work in the coal mines.
Across the road and up a small incline was a field where the railroad tracks were. I would run across the road to the field to pick wildflowers and Queen Ann's Lace sometimes. I will never for get the very first time I heard the sound that would send chills up and down my spine, and the very first time I laid eyes on that big, black, majestic locomotive train coming down the track. As the train would get closer the sound of the whistle and the roar of the steam engine was enough to make me run and hide down the alley between Uncle Tony's little hotel and Pezzutti's general store next door. I would get so scared, but thrilled at the same time when I would hear the whistle of that train in the distance!!
I would hide behind the brick wall and peek out...waiting and watching for that huge, majestic black locomotive with steam like clouds all around it. The sheer power, force, and majesty of that train coming down the track was like nothing I had ever seen or heard before. I was mesmerized and fascinated...my eyes would get big as saucers, as I stood there,a little frozen in my tracks, and amazed at what I was seeing. My tummy would be filled with butterflies everytime I heard that whistle blow in the distance.....I knew that train was coming down the track.... and I would get to see it again. It is truly one of the most majestic things I have ever seen in my life and one of my fondest memories. I love trains to this day. I dream of getting to go on a trip in a train to the countryside of France and Italy someday, to visit both countries that my family is from. I had an experience tonight with someone... He reminds me of that big black locomotive coming down the track...and I feel like that little girl picking wildflowers near the railroad tracks in the field....So I wrote this tonight..... in tribute to him.

I hear something in the distance
As I open up the door
I feel a rumble beneath my feet...
And then the silence comes once more
But somewhere in the distance
It comes to me again
Like a high lonesome whistle...
Like a moan upon the wind
Standing on the right track
I turn to see a light
I hear thunder in the distance...
I hear music in the night
Look whats coming down the track
And up around the bend
He rolls just like a night train
A Son of Thunder
And he rides on the wind

He's got a soul like a locomotive

He's got a mind to tell you so..

He's got a fire down in his belly

He's got a heart refined of gold

He's a poet and a prophet

He believes in amazing grace

He's known the chains of his own captivity

He love's to laugh in the devil's face

He's seen the bigger picture...

He's found the strength to carry on

He's got a passion bout' redemption

He's got passion for a song....

Tommy...

Sound fused with stunning beauty

On strings that bend and purr

And I.... so blessed

The inner voice

It swells

Inside prolific color prism's

I am left

Immersed in passion

Drawn

From the deepest well.

Drenched in light

With lifeblood flowing

It's truth and revelation

Not by a spoken word

The artist's pose

A striking image

Like his eternal father

In the throes of creation

Yes!

Such grand poetic articulation

The heavens rush to kiss the earth

This afterglow speaks well

I listen....

Now I know freedom.



The joy within his etherial smile

This visionary

Takes me on celestial navigation

It's a wild fronteir

I thank God that I can hear

Interior sound

To make the connection.



Anything else now seems absurd

Anything else now.....

Would be in the key of mediocrity for me..... to be sure

Hidden treasure within his flesh

Drawn out by heart and wood

Situated here on earth

So beautifully configured

In perfected juxtaposition

This gift from heaven....

"It's a Special Delivery Miss D' "...with such innovation

I see love in all of its variations

Heart and spirit fuse

For one soul destination

With such reverance and deep emotion

Reciever of his miracle I am

I listen...

Now I know freedom.

Monday, June 8, 2009

"The Messenger"

Isolation

No navigation

Necessary for today

Yet revelation comes

In the most mysterious ways

Looking at a baby's smile

Make me wanna reach out and touch the stars

To a dream thats as real as can be

And I am here

Still stuck in doubt

Gets kind of tricky right through here

Can't get out

To come and play

Got her button's pushed

She's still on mute

Trying to reach out

Maybe you might know the way.


Always someone so displeased

I just want to be kind

And love living free

From their approval

Finally happy and pleased

With being me

I'm really loving me

Just as I be

Took a long time to get here

Had to stay on my knees

And let You show me how to really see.

So I percieve there are strings attached

And now I wanna get shook

From your crazy hook

Stuck in fear... gets kind of tricky

Right through here

Tired of being mute

Maybe you might know the way....

"No man is an island"

I've heard them say

So who are "they" ?

Anyway...

Angels come

In the most mysterious ways.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

"A Little Romance....and then some..."

I was thinking about the movie "Braveheart" today....
Here are some quotes from that movie...


"Oui..Parce que chaque jour j'ai pense' a' toi."
( "Yes...because every single day I thought about you.")
William Wallace


"One day you will be a queen and you must open your eyes..."
William Wallace to Princess Isabelle


"Why do you help me?"
William Wallace asks Princess Isabelle

"...because of the way you are looking at me now."
Princess Isabelle to William Wallace

"Its all for nothing if you don't have freedom"
William Wallace


"Every man dies. Not every man really lives"
William Wallace

"I respect what you said, but remember these men have lands and castles. It's much to risk"
Robert the Bruce"

"And the common man, who bleeds on the battlefield...does he risk less?"
William Wallace to Robert the Bruce

"To Inspire...."

"True and substantial wisdom principally consists of two parts, the knowledge of God,
and the knowledge of ourselves.

John Calvin


"Nothing worth having comes without a fight."

Bruce Cockburn
from "Lovers In a Dangerous Time"


"The spiritual life cannot be made suburban...It is always frontier.
Rejoice that it remains untamed!"

Howard Macy


"The heart has its reasons that reason knows not of"

Paschal


"The glory of God is man fully alive"
St. Irenaeus

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

"Soul Mates"

Soul Mates
Are like radioactive power...
Energy of vibrant love...

Soul Mates
Assist Life...

Soul Mates
Possess the capacity to help each other grow
And develop...

Soul Mates
Are the tongue and groove
the tenon to the mortise...

Soul Mates
Are more than just physical attraction...

Soul Mates
Spread love like wildfire to people around them...

Soul Mates
"See one another like the piece of marble in Michaelangelo's hands...
confronted with hammer and chisel...the inner figure waiting to be
sculpted out...Not easily percieved and mostly invisible except to their poetic eyes"
Thomas Moore

Soul Mates
Understand the meaning of "Divine Grace"

Soul Mates
Born of pure Spirit....

Soul Mates
Twin Flames...

Soul Mates
Realize the inner blueprint is underneath...

Soul Mates
Understand and yearn for intimacy...
Yet they understand...seclusion...independence...and
solitude...

Soul Mates
One complements the other...

Soul Mates
Understand "concentrated cultivation"...

Soul Mates
Share a sacred labor....a common mission...

Soul Mates
Together fulfill a "blueprint for God"...

Soul Mates
"Help you navigate the rapids that rise up along the river of your life" Michael Franks


Soul Mates
"Know they are in deep...." Michael Franks

Soul Mates
"Know their love will go the distance..." Michael Franks

Soul Mates
"Devotion is like a candle in the night..." Michael Franks