OctPoWriMo 2019: Day 6: Blues for your Eyes

At the End of Everything Version 10

Photoshop Manipulation by The Real Cie

Your changing blue eyes

Hypnotize

I fell into your soul and drowned inside

You'd think I'd realize

No-one will ever hear my cries

I can't escape your frozen eyes

I keep telling myself lies

I keep telling myself that I

Don't still have the blues

For your eyes

~Cie~

Song Inspirations:

OctPoWriMo 2019: Day 1: Dark Night of the Soul

Image by Owensart from Pixabay

Awakening from our dream of love, we see that once again

The dark night of the soul descends

Bleakness that no shiny happy folderol can end

Chaos reigns instead

Doubt descends to destroy

Every beautiful thing

Found in its path

Ghouls dig into the graves

History is unearthed

Incapable of believing

Jealousy

Kills

Love

Morning rushes away

Night descends 

Old fears

Prey on us in the pitch black of our doubts

Regret overtakes 

Soul fire ignites the last vestiges of hope

Tragically, certain ill-advised words cannot be

Unsaid

Vain tears cannot

Win back what was tossed aside

Xenos we are
You fly away

Zeroing the light in my heart
Back
to
Black

~Cie~

Couldn't leave without giving credit to the amazing Amy Winehouse for the inspiration.

Carpe Diem Summer Love 2019: Day 2: Two Hearts Together

Image by skeeze from Pixabay

A poetry tribute to Chris Isaak, king of the rockabilly ballad

Using song titles from his album "Heart Shaped World"

Heart Shaped World

~

My sad heart shaped world

Shattered by an asteroid

Scorched by the hot sun

My heart went supernova

Love always goes wrong for me

💔

I'm Not Waiting

~

I'm not waiting 'round

You said that you'd wait for me

But you ran away

Wish I could change everything

From the time you drove me mad

💔

Don't Make Me Dream About You

~

I begged you please 

Don't make me dream about you

Let's just remain friends

You said you wanted me more

But in the end you just ran

💔

Kings of the Highway

~

Kings of the highway

You led such amazing lives

Though it took its toll

Playing rock and roll a dream

Dream sometimes becomes nightmare

💔

Wicked Game

~

Wicked game it was

When you begged for my love

Did you know it then

How it would be in the end

Was I a way to kill time?

💔

Blue Spanish Sky

~

A blue Spanish sky

At times your eyes were so blue

Sometimes they were green

To me you were beautiful

I wish you could still be mine

💔

Wrong to Love You

~

It's wrong to love you

But I love you anyway

There's no way I can't

Wish you would come back to me

Wish we could start once again

💔

Forever Young

~

Not forever young

Everything grows old and dies

Maybe even love

I think the end came too quick

I think it was all my fault

💔

Nothing's Changed

~

Nothing's changed inside

My love for you is still strong

Every day I cry

Every day I miss you so

Every night I dream of you

💔

In the Heat of the Jungle

~

Sitting in this place

In the heat of the jungle

Suburban jungle

Wishing for a miracle

In a place without magic

💔

Much love and respect for Chris

A really great guy and insanely talented musician

An ornery old broad and two great men. My son Michael (L) and Chris Isaak (R)

Notes:

Not one ounce of bullshit or fangirling here. Chris Isaak is truly one of the nicest, most humble people you could ever hope to meet in spite of having more talent in his little finger than most of us have in our entire bodies. 

Re: the verse for "Nothing's Changed," credit must also be given to the 1960s Australian pop band The Valentines for the inspiration from their song "Every Day I Cry." RIP Bon Scott (1946 - 1980) and Vince Lovegrove (1947 - 2012).

In the daze of my youth, I had delusions of becoming a musician. Trouble is, I can't carry a tune in a bucket, the girl ain't got rhythm, and, as Chuck D once said, I can't even play Lotto.

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 23: Undoubtedly

Copyright: icetray / 123RF Stock Photo

Undoubtedly

It is you who possess my heart

Undoubtedly it's you

Try though I will, I can't break free

There's nothing I can do

You promised you'd love me always

Said you'd always be mine

You broke my heart undoubtedly

There's nothing left to find

You said it was us forever

Undoubtedly you lied

Why did you ever call to me?

There's nothing left inside

Not good enough for anyone

Not good enough to keep

Always alone, undoubtedly

Wish forever to sleep

~Gerry Clifford~

Form:

Ballad Stanza

 

 

(Not So) Wordless Wednesday: He Will Not Be Forgotten

Note:

The following song was written about a romantic breakup. It takes on a different connotation when applied to the scenario in which a person is losing their memories but another remembers everything for and about them. I never touched the person whom this post honors. He is something seraphic in my eyes, too good for this ugly world.

I struggled with whether or not to even post this, so if you comment, be decent about it, would ya?

Seven months to the day since I saw your face
You roam the earth like a fire holding out 'til the bitter end
You're holding on 'til the bitter end

I take a walk into town
It's like a dead-end street
The sidewalk sings your name underneath my feet
Echoes of forgotten love

Baby, where did you go?
Did you sail away over some distant ocean?
Darling, what we had
It cannot be taken
It cannot be stolen
And it won't be forgotten
No, it won't be forgotten

Summer disappears like a dream I had
And winter comes with a knife that cuts you down
And it never ends
Ooh, it never ends

I hurry past the place you like to drink alone
Seven months to the day you left me here on this avenue
And now I think of you

Baby, where did you go?
Did you sail away over some distant ocean?
Darling, what we had
It cannot be taken
It cannot be broken
And it won't be forgotten
No, it won't be forgotten

Seven months to the day and you don't leave a trace
I search the cracks in the ground, the tallest buildings
They never knew, oh they never knew

Baby, where did you go?
Did you sail away over some distant ocean?
Darling, what we had
It cannot be taken
It cannot be broken
And it won't be forgotten

Baby, where did you go?
Did you sail away over some distant ocean?
Darling, what we had
It cannot be taken
It cannot be stolen
And it won't be forgotten
No, it won't be forgotten

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