Love small waving hands
Pointing up to the sun
Lime coloured ones
Delicate fronds
Every year heralding
New growth has begun
Resisting prunings
Wilting of winter
Hope for another year
Even when caretaker
Seemingly ignores
Their every need
Giving, as if
Love is enough
“Well, I’ve walked these streets
A virtual stage, it seemed to me
Makeup on their faces
Actors took their places next to me
Well, I’ve walked these streets
In a carnival, of sights to see
All the cheap thrill seekers vendors and the dealers
They crowded around me
Have I been blind have I been lost
Inside myself and my own mind
Hypnotized, mesmerized by what my eyes have seen?
Well, I’ve walked these streets
In a spectacle of wealth and poverty
In the diamond markets the scarlet welcome carpet
That they just rolled out for me
And I’ve walked these streets
In the madhouse asylum they can be
Where a wild-eyed misfit prophet
On a traffic island stopped and he raved of saving me
Have I been blind, have I been lost
Have I been wrong
Have I been wise
Have I been strong
Inside myself and my own mind…?”
‘Carnival’ – Natalie Merchant
Songwriters: Peter Anders Svensson / Magnus Sveningsson / Nina Persson
Carnival lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing
No other way to be
Let it all out
Circumambient sweet
No need to fight it
Grown in goodness
From a seed
Abundance for me
Surreal reality
Let it be
I woke from a dream And saw you there Returned to sleep Suddenly - unaware Places that feel Real to the senses Plague our minds Completely - unfounded Dreamscapes grow Over memories Feeding on fallen Radiantly - unmeasured
A certain spell
Grips tightly
Wrapping fondly
Cocooned
Feeling creeps in
Never felt before
Never again?
Flying free now
To joyful end
On the wind
Homeward bound
Life is won
Paths unknown
Finding a way
With love
There was an elder
Of mine own
Who spoke of rights
Assured of tone
He longed for pride
Of place on stone
Of pulpit
Matrimonium
To look over
Young ones
In their finery
Decry the love
Of Others
Unauthorized
When facing our
Mortality
Tongues are loose
Unconformity
Daze has come
and gone for me
When will again
A mystery
I'll sit in a grove
And speak the truth
With love that even
Forests approve
All may gather
And stories be heard
To embrace the days
Love covered
The earth
A mirror
Can't bear to
Open my eyes
Under covers
Hide
Alter reality
Two dimensional
Altar ego responds
Completely to me
Yet every touch
Cold
Do I need to
Be like you
To like you
Like I do?
I do
Loving me
Means
Loving you
Is it a crime to?
All the shades
Of blue reflect
To infinity
With you
Woman, when you believe My story and my song No word or note Need emanate again You nod resignation Soothe cracked lips Silence creeps in Swiftly by morning No badge of bravery Be worn out and down I am changeable As the tide In ancient forests You heal me As I lie in wait For another dawn song Settling within To begin again
A new puppy
A longing overcomes
Subtly over time
Then suddenly undone
Sleepless nights
Frequent walks
Accidental strife
Adorable, warm
A love not chosen
Like a spell cast
Wooing bright eyes
Mesmerised at last
I'll walk my love
Down every street
Doggy park
Beach retreat
Nodding at fellow
Lovers off leash
Tied to feelings
Unfathomable
Feeling responsible
For daily care
Falling asleep
Nestled in there
Such is the way
Of owning your own
In love with you
Who knew?
Strange how the music
Can say what lies inside
Better than own lips
Better still, silence
Reveals a sonnet
Of secrets
That moment between words
When the body speaks
To affirm or contradict
Knowing moves
Of safety
Alone with thoughts
On the edge of wild
Never live lonely
Affect writes thesis
Of sanity
Wondering brain waves
Sing on wind and wire
Telegraph of love
Words no limit
Of sound
Don't Stop.
Count the stars of heaven 