Firstly three poems: with the MP3 links to readings of them by myself. Then on the theme of love, links to my pick of music tracks...
Poems with MP3 links.
Tip: for best listening, plug your headphones in your PC base unit.This is Gurd
(words for the music track: “Time for Tiffin”, by Charles Sheinman)
This is Gurd, join my dreams.
Feel the air you breath go out, flow through the trees,a kiss returns.
Here is where all is and is to know.
No reasons given or neededaccepted you belong
part of Gurd’s song.come falling
into the waves of afternoon sleep.Sea surf
breakers lulling friends and loversto mornings shore.
This is Gurd, join my dreams
Feel the air you breath go out, flow through the trees,a kiss returns.
This Poem Lyric © Louis J. Casson 2011 All rights reserved.
YouTube Link to “Time for Tiffin” music video track by Charles Sheinman:The View from Vanity Tower
Buying building a stack of bibles
so I can get closer to the God of heaven who lies there?
Sifting all the denominational variants n options,
convinced the truth lies in there somewhere!
Surrounding myself with a wall of high-flown books
secure against the new barbarians.
They’re advancing, scaling my Towers’ walls,
damn it they just won’t stop over there!
Keep coming closer from over there.
Who’s going to tell me that the vista of bliss,
that view from Vanity Tower.
Was blended with illusion,
while merely seeming true, not really how it was,
but it held me in it’s power.
Gather up all the rosaries, count beads, to frighten the Devil
Too long, it held me in its misguided power.
Too late to break free from the power.
not found easy, or made of paper
in my gathered rows of books.
Thoughts, ideas live on beyond exuding,
untarnished truth, below mere looks.
still time is waning
until death the unknowing captures all.
Why ask questions that have no answers?
I’m only seeking truth that’s all.
After the day I die?
Sent off to the charity shop or dumped to the tip
maybe they’ll just burn, watch the sparks go upward fly?
Black ashes, as the sparks going upwards, they fly.
but it keeps you comfy for a while.
Filters and self fooling keep out better than shutters
reality or the sun.
I need to give my mind a scrub and a shower.
See better after a scrub and a shower.
This Poem Lyric © Louis J. Casson 2011 All rights reserved.
MP3 audio link:Stroke My Soul
Sing, say the words that stroke my soul.
For only you have the key, that power,
that soothes all troubles, see them flow away.
And I don’t mind,
it’s so sweet not have control.
Dance, slowly in the half light gently move.
Feel the love just sharing, being here.
Our secret place suspending, all time and the world.
All is enough,
to continue in that groove.
Each sentence, phrase, gently whispers, murmurs, purrs.
Contently calms my troubled seas,
till the world’s wearing waves of rage,
of disappointments,
become smoothed and flat.
Love as a silent wave flows among us
For lucky ones, swept in love’s currents
to its blessed isle.
Blessed I am to stand, to lie,
to know this ground.
This Poem Lyric © Louis J. Casson 2011 All rights reserved.
MP3 Audio link:Bhagavad Blues
Love existing invisible: revealed
stroking my dog, kissing my Wife,
calling a friend.
Acting strips surface words; prosaic
even commonplace acts revealing,
essential spirits.
I have continued in love; giving you
the smallest leaf and solitary rice grain.
Here potentia - joy or sadness - lies:
did you know, or not,
what it meant?
This Poem Lyric © Louis J. Casson 2011 All rights reserved.
MP3 audio link: See: The Bhagavad Gita. Translated by Juan Mascaro. Penguin Classics 1962
Page 45, Chapter 9:26. Krishna: “He who offers me with devotion only a leaf, or a flower, or a fruit, or even a little water, this I accept from that yearning soul, because with a pure heart it was offered with love”. Staying on the theme of Love & Lovers, links:
Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s Day?Note that the final couplet, the last two lines, give a reason for writing this or any love poem.
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/18A Jazz ballad version as sung by Cleo Laine with John Dankworth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg13WcPAHmsLove poems by Pablo Neruda (and others!)
http://www.yourlovecoach.co.uk/love-poems/love-poems-by-pablo-neruda/Andrew Marvel: To his Coy Mistress.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htmLouis’ Digital Jukebox.
These are on my current “marvellous mashup” music listening list. Some new some old, a mix of old skool soul plus jazz:
“Neither one of us”: Gladys Knight & the Pips. A fine example of heartbreaking soul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo2Hw0Y-NeYAnother version, live, Winsome Benjamin does her thing. Gooood!:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NasaU9kFRrUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyD5tAGBP9U
Sarah Vaughan: “My funny Valentine”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dntaJEqH9IM&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJuFxl0bxY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3rx8LhrQo&ob=av2e
Al Green: “love and happiness”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsU6_eSG4k4Teddy Pendergrass, “Turn off the lights”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSrEdpW3PoM&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAcvYHZm47I
Atlantic Starr “Always”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgl11QAU6nA&feature=relatedHope you all enjoyed it, that’s enough for now I think!
Till my next Blog, take care. Louis J This Blog content, Poems & Lyrics, Copyright Louis J. Casson 2011.
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