Lyric poems - versions / My new Behance site / Reggae Riddeema, for the H project (taster now online)

Hi and welcome to this month's Blog!

Lyric poems - versions.

Who said you can't re-mix your own poems to make them different? (a bit like in music where there are variations on a theme). The following is an example where a more straight literary level piece is then adapted to a more lyric form with use as a finished song in mind.
Original poem (from: “Sharing a Soft Small Star”)


Ebony Sweet

Against the fluted pillar she leans,

Classical and beauty meet and meld.

Her skin so black.

I see her eyes; she smiles,

Twin rows of pearls me greet.

Ebony girl so sweet.



“Riddim” version:-


Ebony Sweet

Ebony sweet, each day mi greet

so fine.

Ebony sweet, mek mi so complete

so fine.

Ebony sweet, in mi dreams your lips

„gainst mine.

‟Gainst the pillar of the restaurant she lean,

Her beauty meet and meld,

wit the world, supreme.

Her skin so smooth an black.

gimme heart attack.

I lost, I see her eyes;

she smiles,

Twin rows of pearls mi greet,

I know my heart‟s complete,

Ebony girl so sweet,

so sweet.

Ebony sweet, each day mi greet

so fine.

Ebony sweet, mek mi so complete

so fine.

Ebony sweet, in mi dreams your lips

„gainst mine. 


My new Behance site.
http://www.behance.net/LJCasson

Easy to set up. I've included tasters of my books published for sale on Amazon Kindle.

Also of interest to potential poets lyrics writers are the links to my podcasts with Morgen Bailey - you can go and dowload theses podcasts for FREE @ Apple iTunes (follow the lnk, or cut n paste into your browser).

Reggae Riddeema, for the H project (taster now online -
see my project on my Behance site)

After the "eye of the storm" passed as it were, the media 's eye has moved on largely to other matters. But the needs of the people of Haiti are still present  - and will be for some time to come.

This is my gift of a collection specially selected from my poems lyrics; with new Reggae Riddim pieces added, for the Haiti H Project. For more details on LifeStraw NOW! and the LifestrawNOW Coalition, go to:

http://www.lifestrawnow.org/

Coalition@LifeStrawNow.org

Help Haiti. Please join them on Facebook and Twitter .


I'll close with another taster from "Reggae Riddeema", A Loving Sleep, till next time take care...


A Loving Sleep


Sometimes when you are away,

I‟ll snuggle for my naps

with your dressing gown.

I say it keeps me just right,

not too warm or hot.

Yet its softness, and the faint scent

of you and your perfume,

keeps you still here.


Other times we journey

through the night, and I hold you

my driftwood pearl.

Against the nocturne current,

safely close to me.


A loving sleep;

and over us

a billion soft small stars,

In love our bodies, our souls shall keep.

Two dreamers drifting to the dawn,

a loving sleep.
 

All contents © Louis J. Casson 2011  All rights reserved