KEEP THE MOTH OUT OF THE FLAME
When you are trying to help someone, you have to have humor, self-existing humor, and you have to hold the moth in your hand, but not let it go into the flame. That’s what helping others means. Ladies and gentlemen, we have so much responsibility. A long [...]
NOVEMBER NIGHT
Listen. . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.
— Adelaide Crapsey
IT IS THE TIME OF RAIN AND SNOW
It is the time of rain and snow I spend sleepless nights And watch the frost Frail as your [...]
COMING TO THE MORNING
You make me remember all of the elements the sea remembering all of its waves
in each of the waves there was always a sky made of water and an eye that looked once
there was the shape of one mountain and a blood kinship with rain
and the air [...]
RANCID – LAST ONE TO DIE
Everybody saying we gotta take a chance And telling me what the hell went wrong We only listen to the words that we sing Now a million are singing along
(Last one) We got it right, you got wrong, We’re still around (Last one to die) We’re [...]
Continuing a tradition wherein the cover version of a song is more powerful than the original … or at least different enough that it stands on it’s own as a new work.
GARY JULES/MICHAEL ANDREWS – MAD WORLD
All around me are familiar faces Worn-out places, worn-out faces Bright and early for the [...]
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the next major primary, which could ultimately decide which Democratic candidate gets the nomination. It’s do-or-die for Hillary Clinton, because right now Barack Obama what seems to be a commanding lead, if not in delegates, then in the support of the people …
But what is still most important … [...]
Solitude looms high, alone in the canyons, silence— take time to listen.
Copyright © 2007, Steven L. Sheffield
