sixty degrees: ‘dying in the cold…’
Listen to the Voices ~ Labi Siffre When your world collapses. Bank accounts run red. Your great heart, full to bursting, shatters and falls still. Civilizations rise, and fall. Fortunes … Continue reading
fifty nine degrees: ‘teach me to fly…’
Maybe I’m A Beggar ~ Supertramp Another day, another blessing. The natural world, so rich. Searching for Mowgli, Max discovers a nest. Abandoned to the long grass. Perhaps blown off … Continue reading
fifty eight degrees: ‘this is a promise with a catch…’
True Love Will Find You In The End ~ Daniel Johnston Blessing today: a butterfly emerges with regal splendour. Powder perfect wings, crumpled from the tight folded fit. Shaky and … Continue reading
fifty seven degrees: ‘spending your time thinking…’
Everybody Here Is a Cloud ~ Cloud Cult I want to give you something. A present. Well no, THE present. I’m currently trying to gift it to myself and thought, … Continue reading
fifty five degrees: ‘if the curve of you was curved on me…’
New York ~ Snow Patrol Ferocious gale, races howling. Horizontal, rain falls. Trees bend, nature’s grace. Yoga’s surrender, art acceptance. Curled, warm and safe. With books, blankets. A trilogy of … Continue reading
fifty four degrees: ‘bless the light that shines on you…’
Days ~ The Kinks Strange dreams, thanks giving. Hearts wired, for love. Hard though, its learning. Rage undressed, fear seen. Fatal wound, shot through with sadness. Robbed you, of self. … Continue reading
fifty three degrees: ‘eternity under the old oak tree…’
Ugly Love ~ Eels Less than pretty, rough and gritty. Courage act, master embrace. True love, its entirety. Dynamic tension, electric tightrope. Human, extreme. Your best, inhale. Worst, breathe out. … Continue reading
fifty two degrees: ‘a three-fold Utopian dream…’
I Miss You (acoustic) ~ Incubus Snap shot, solar flair. Shards of diamond, rainbowed. Streaming through the air. Though you say it’s hopeless, and I respect your point of view. … Continue reading
fifty one degrees: ‘rescued and carried along…’
Just The Motion ~ David Byrne Solid liquid gas, water. Scientific state, differential form. Rain, snow, mist. Still, water. Human being, made up mostly. Many frozen, ice. Some flowing, liquid. … Continue reading
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