Tag Archives: songs

sonata scribbles to my someday self

Posted on November 12, 2022 by whimsygizmo

breathe, girl. you’re fine. the moon moats in her sky, and you (of also borrowed shine) can hang awhile longer, too.  breathe in these starsand mark them well, treble-tremble your fingersalong their sharpest notes.  whisper yourself some wings of feathered things,of flutter, stuttered syllables soaked in salt and … Continue reading →

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Bad Blood Blues

Posted on August 23, 2018 by whimsygizmo

Hey won’t you play another somebody done somebody wrong song? – B.J. Thomas   .. Nah. I have grown weary of heart -ache and heartbreak and the un -quiet mistakes that unravel us, whole ; the strains that stain our … Continue reading →

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Battle of Bridges, and Sighs

Posted on April 9, 2018 by whimsygizmo

Most days, we don’t know which ones to cross and which ones …….(senses, secrets, songs) to burn. So we paint them, portraits of our own in -decision, steel and solid basket cases of our wandering hearts. We run our hungry … Continue reading →

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On Top of Spaghetti

Posted on November 27, 2017 by whimsygizmo

I lost my poor meatball, When somebody sneezed. ………….. – old Scout song   .. We have lost our ever -lovin’ ……(meatballs) ……………(meanings) minds. You will find us here, ………..tryin’ to use our noodles, find some new way ……to say ………….God … Continue reading →

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AMC Concord, FM Radio

Posted on November 10, 2017 by whimsygizmo

Somewhere unforgiven time will wait for you ………………….– Beck   . Keep the car running, Love; on the street and waiting for us to do that Bonnie & Clyde thing. That go for a ride thing where we disappear down … Continue reading →

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swollen sky

Posted on October 10, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… did we stutter? mutter clouded somethings to an angry stone? did I wish for this? blow fluff and bliss to breeze, release some semblanced song void of my self? did you go, or stay? these deluged days make heavy … Continue reading →

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Getting Blank

Posted on June 29, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… Reset your face. Erase all traces of the you that’s been you for way too long. Forget your song: the words, the refrain, that last strain that kept you sane through the tumbled storm. Wish yourself strange, a stranger … Continue reading →

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Hourglass Songs

Posted on May 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Keep this under your hat, beneath your skin: let’s begin as smashed hope and promise, a small smidgen of something sound. This stopwatch is set to ‘run’ – maybe we’ll see our turn and learn a thing or two, one … Continue reading →

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will work for tunes

Posted on February 9, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… crumble me cookie-like into the shape of a heart made merry by mar -velous sugar stung songs. chop me into sticks and stones, quiet thrones for monkey kings and dragons. hold the pre -scription of your smile to my … Continue reading →

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Canary Psyche

Posted on December 12, 2014 by whimsygizmo

. Analyze this, Love, my old and yellowed song. Life gave me lemons and leotards, a lack of flexibility and sugar. Stir me, tingle the breeze past the bars of my last cage. I’ve raged against the wind, the day, … Continue reading →

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