Land lubber

sail the long day
stream of time
on the waters of my mind
brave the storm front
black cloud thoughts
the port
the journey comes to nought

the sea flows to the edge of earth
then plunges down
toward darker birth
here be dragons
warns the map
yet rudderless the sails do flap

sails of flesh and hull of bones
the captain steers
by will alone
time's current brung him to this sea
the sands of damned mortality

some say that on the golden sands
shining angels singing stand
and moor the ships
with ropes of light
to islands of intense delight
that burn like fires - distant bright
amid the twinkling skies of night

but LO i'v also heard the tale
on night winds blown
un-earthly wail
with sea foam voice
tormented tones
we sail our days
alone alone
until the ship with creaking groan
Breaks and sinks below the waves
forever lost in silent graves.

sung like blues.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul
a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, he called for his bowl
he called for his fiddlers three.

what shall we play
the fiddlers say
and cole sat back and scratched his head

"i dont know the name of the song i feel
down deep in my soul
i'm 'sposed to be merry
so they say
but all i feel is old"

alone i face eternity
with no woman's love
and so salvations
no good to me
with no woman's love.

earth itself is paradise
no eden can compare
except when love is lost forever
then its all nowehere.

and when i stand at the pearly gates
i might see her there
with the man she loves
who isnt me
and heaven is nowhere

maybe i'll be lucky still
the luckiest of men
and why i die
no heaven find
only oblivion.

Loving Music, Loving Musicians

Well, would you look at this. a strange new place where i am writing something to place out there in the world. and why? for one reason only. I had to create this account so that i could leave a comment under someone elses blog. not just any someone either, but the ever wonderful musician Adrian Belew of king crimson, the bears, talking heads, frank zappa, twang bar, etc.(this list could go on) fame.
one of the many fine musians in the world who has sculled around in the back grounds of super stardom. know by many and many and his work is heard by many more who are unaware of his name but hear him playing on albums by other people.
he is famous, but not famous like eric clapton or peter gabriel, madonna or the beatles. I myself was once a person who had been digging Adrian Belew's work on several albums without realizing who he was. it started when I about fifteen and my father had a cassette tape of frank zappa's sheik yerbouti. "city of tiny lights.." ya! i really dug the record and played it lots. then in my 11th grade english class i got turned on to lauri anderson, the last poets and allen ginsberg. almost instantly i went out and bought "big science", the first thing i had heard. not long after also got "mr heartbreak". i dug on these awhile and then right before i graduated from high school i discovered king crimson's "disipline".that was 1985.
it started slowely. i first heard "matte kudasai" on a small radio coming from the college radio station. i heard the whole album a little later when a friend had it on tape. eventually i bought it myself. i already knew of king crimson from the 70's but was blissfully unaware of the 80's incarnation until then. it was love a first listenings.
crimson put me on the road to recognizing Adrian Belew and my penchant for reading albums and looking at the musicans listed eventually led me to notice how many records i already had where in he played.
anyway, since he is so kind as to use these blog mediums to communicate with all of us, i am going to take advantage and post a comment under something i read.
as he himself discribes in his blog, one doesnt want to be the crazy annoying fan. but, .......