Yes indeed, why Haiku? Here's a little of why. Not in that form, but following the theme all the same. Reminded of this format, this genre last week. Spill Rage Against The Machine, music I was listening to in full last weekend, spark! The inspiration. And so in this shortest-word month of the year, in …
Category: culture
Haiku Form: A Word on May
Shortest month name, half Spring Midst of trials, must carry on, Sure we can, vamos.
Lyrics Post: “The Necromancer”
This song from 1975 and the Canadian band RUSH, their third album, Caress of Steel. All three bandmates are credited for the song, but no doubt drummer Neil Peart had primary if not sole responsibility for the lyrics. I don't know the finer points of Peart's writing, chronology, etc.; that said, this song must be …
Haiku Form: Change Up
Spring to summer, come Fresh spark, short form, soothe the soul Same point, make it good.
COVID Muse: Loosening and Tightening
Consider this quarantine we've been under, this time like no other. In my lifetime, it hasn't happened. Day Forty-Something, I'm not even sure anymore. The first full month complete, this we know. The order just came down, it will be another month for us to mostly "shelter-in-place." We know that now too. Are things getting tighter? …
Seasons of Love
This song brings me to tears pretty much every time I hear it. Feel alive. Soak it up. GOOD. "Seasons Of Love"(from "Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" soundtrack) [All:]525,600 minutes525,000 moments so dear525,600 minutesHow do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffeeIn inches, in miles, in laughter, …
Lyrics Post: “You Will Be Found”
Brought to you by... Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast Of Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics soundtrack) I don't think I've listened to this song once without having a tear or two dripping down my face... [EVAN:]Have you ever felt like nobody was there?Have you ever felt forgotten in the …
Find the Way
Find the way. That's what they had to do after they find the empty tomb. There was confusion and joy and disbelief and uncertainty. And so they had to find the way through all that to the next right thing. Let us not only take heart in the hope of The Ressurection; let us also be …
Vigil
Were You There? This African-American Spiritual, first published in 1899, it well, it digs deep at the heart of the matter: from sorrow and anguish and darkness...to...The Light. “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they …
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