I’ve been hearing this song in my head for days. The F1RST man I truly fell for was an Eagles fanatic. He was also a liar, a thief, a chancer and an unfaithful soon to be married bastard. A fact that I found out when his bride to be turned up and announced herself as […]
Desperado — Uncontrolled Historian
This is the opening track on The Moody Blues 1972 album, Seventh Sojourn.
The song title, ‘Lost in a Lost World’ speaks for itself. If anything, the lyrics are more appropriate now than they were 49 years ago — they are quite profound and prophetic, a very sad testimony to where we are now, what we have become.
But there is always hope. Even if it feels that we have been deserted, goodness can and will return. That process begins by understanding the truth…through prayer…and through love.
Copyright Francis 2021
A robin singing
from his heart, the only way —
living the moment
Copyright Francis 2021
The spring song of a great tit
halted my winter walk;
the next day he was there again,
marking out his territory
so early in the year.
Then the incessant cooing of doves
on our rimy roof,
interrupting my morning ablutions.
Though it’s cold outside
and my heart is playing the blues
there are signs,
signs of something new,
much more than mere signs
of an early spring
which nature corresponds.
Something is stirring
Winter birds are singing spring
They sense what’s coming
Copyright Francis 2021
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Billboard #1 Hits: #383: “Let’s Do It Again”- The Staple Singers. December 27, 1975. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. Single: “Let’s Do It Again”- The Staple Singers Record Company- Curtom Genre: Soul Written by Curtis Mayfield Time: 4:29 B-side:”After Sex” Album- Let’s Do It Again Grade: Peaked at #1 1 week in […]
BILLBOARD #1 HITS: #383: “LET’S DO IT AGAIN”- THE STAPLE SINGERS – DECEMBER 27, 1975 — slicethelife
Listen to the wind
How many years must I wait
Answers in my heart
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Carpe Diem Celebrates Its 8th Anniversary October 2020: #1837 blowing in the wind
For you I’d write a new songMemories of you, they still inspireI’d wrap it up in harmonyGet it delivered by a classical choir For you I’ll set the world on fireAnd given half a chanceWatch you rip the fancy wrappingAnd through the storm clouds watch you dance I walked for miles across the sand dunesThinking […]
MEMORIES INSPIRE — Zoolon Audio
Crying” is a song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson for Orbison’s third studio album of the same name. Released in 1961, it was a number… … 18 more words
Roy Orbison “Crying” (1962) — AMERICA ON COFFEE
The First Time
Blackbird, you must believe me,
but I didn’t set out to praise you.
So much can seem pastoral,
hackneyed, and plain ‘done already’.
But your song today
when I opened the window,
once the lashing rain had passed
and a feeble sun had come out –
it was so vital and clear.
You were not troubled by worry,
not hamstrung with minutiae,
nor at all concerned about
what you should be doing.
You simply sang from your heart,
a heart which I can’t always find
or even acknowledge in me.
Today then, at least let me say
it was like hearing you
for the first time.
Which of course, I was
Poem © copyright df barker
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