ANTONYM PLAYLIST #4

SUPPOSED TO RAIN TODAY, NOT YET THOUGH, JUST GREY AND MUGGY AND THE WORLD IS WAITING WITH BATED BREATH. DALE M

ANTONYM PLAYLIST #3

VERY MUCH ENJOYING THIS NEW TYPE OF PLAYLIST AS IT ALLOWS ME JUMP IN SURPRISING WAYS, MUCH MORE FLEXIBILITY. DALE M

SPIT IT OUT

SPIT IT OUT Wednesdays were both the worst and best of days. September 1974, my brother just four months dead and buried. I coped with brittle dark humour, trying to roll with the heavy swell of emotions as they broke and crashed around me. Wednesday morning, the worst straight off the bat, Assembley followed by

THE RIBBON ROAD

RIBBON ROAD So long to the ribbon road, which connects me to forty years of travelling like a top, spinning effortless from A road to B road and back again, and I can’t think of a journey but your last journey, and I wasn’t even there… So much the for the fools errand of driving

ANTONYM PLAYLIST #2

OK I’M FED UP WITH THIS LOS ANGELES WEATHER, HOT AND SUNNY BEGINS TO WHERE A BIT THIN HERE IN THE TROPICAL MIDLANDS. I DREAM OF STORMS COOL WATER AND A TWO LITRE TUB OF ICE CREAM. DALE M

KAMAKURA

KAMAKURA Pure love, pure earth and stillness, Sitting on a rock beside the shore, The movement outside turns to stone, Inside all his hum dried, an incantation. The years flicker like light, strung out in between wave and particle… here lies the Tao, the Universe in microcosm, The stiller the mind, the faster you understand,

MARKS TO PROVE IT

MARKS TO PROVE IT Cold with the vapid wafts of February mist, the sort you know will slowly disappear to give off the super bright sunshine, faintly reminiscent of the summer. 8 o’clock and my friends have left ahead of me as I was only half way through my breakfast bowl of rice krispies. Alone,

ANTONYMIC PLAYLIST #1

TRYING SOMETHING NEW AS THE VERBAL CHAINS WERE BECOMING TOO SAME OLD… I THOUGHT OPPOSITES MIGHT THROW UP SOME DIFFERENT SONGS. THIS ONE SEEMS TO HAVE HIT THE SPOT. DALE M

JOY OF JOYS

JOY OF JOYS Joy of joys, That little hand slipped into yours, That sweet trust which can never be broken, Granddad will protect me, just as he protected my Mom, and Granddad is so blessed, To feel that love and trust, A feeling missed since his little girl, Had become a woman and mother, A

CHAIN PLAYLIST #19

DROPPING THIS LIST TONIGHT SO I CAN DROP A NEW IDEA TOMORROW. DALE M