Welcome

I will always welcome the rain On New Year's Day. Always welcome the tears from heaven to cleanse away all the things I cannot name but hold me back all the same I would dance naked in this rain In all the tears And salt from heaven's eye Just to let it all go and …

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Muse

Loathing that which you inspire Is no way to thank the deities that made you mesmerizing and intoxicating Thoughts of you drive me insane and from the depth of that sorrowful longing Something lovely is birthed. A poem, a song or a dashing hero to save the day and break the heroine's heart. Happy endings are …

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Papa and Momma’s Story

Papa and Momma don't dance down the lane They don't skip to my lou or any such thing He has a limp from the war says he fell out of bed with a whore, But that ain't the truth Because truth ain't pretty or nice And Momma has been through too much A husband who …

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Cash Money

Cash Money, I gots it right now Trust me, I gots it Believe in me, though I ain't be telling no truth the whole truth and nothing but its the but that is the sticky part The but that means the difference between this nice n furnished place and another month at hotel reminding me of …

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Folk

I come from mountain Folks Hillbilly trash you might say Who bore winters colder than your stare Built lives on mountain sides In cracks and crevices worked the land Bringing life from stone Whose bodies may have broken But their spirits never died So they got up again And again Three times grandma’s back broke …

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Dust to Dust – A Principle of Love

Lust fades - said Pops But Love is constant yet mutable It changes as it grows ~ each year Blooming more beautifully than the last Until this mortal realm returns it to the dust To fuel and fertilize another flower