The song Blue Moon has a history that few people are aware of. It was long known to be written by the famous Rogers and Hart team. However a daughter claimed that it was her father, a son of Polish immigrants, who wrote the song in 1931.
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Emotional Bonds
Emotional bonds can change over time and in some cases can become to feel like chains around ankles, as if a prisoner in a relationship. Here the writer describes poetically a situation where love turned into ownership with one partner voiding the other relegating them into the shadows.
Lost Souls
Lost at Sea
Only the sea
could match the anger
Only wind could
howl with more clangor
Here no one listens
and there’s no one to call
An unheard scream
goes where dead words fall
In the furor of crashing waves
Song Lyric Sunday
Holding Back The Years by British Band Simply Red. To me it is a somewhat haunting song about the writer’s upbringing in a broken home and well, yes, that resonated with me.
The use of the Latin Pater (Father) and Mater (Mother) in the lyrics helps the reader/listener pay attention to the story behind the song.
Haiku For Healing
Let your dreams fly freeOpen your heart and releaseSo they might come trueCopyright © 2024 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights Reserved
Changing Of The Guard Tableau
The setting sun creates long shadows in the cooling air, signaling the arrival of autumn. Soon, leaves will change color and fall, blanketing the ground. The once vibrant landscape transforms into a tableau of muted hues, under a barren, grey sky, accompanied by the raucous cawing of crows.
Winner Takes All
The poem expresses the speaker’s experience of being stifled and alienated by someone’s selfishness and anger. Despite this, the speaker asserts their victory by reclaiming their joy and refusing to be broken. The poem emphasizes the resilience and triumph of laughter in the face of adversity.
Song Lyric Sunday
Welcome to Song Lyric Sunday. This week we are invited to choose a song that was from the year we were born. Well I looked and looked and was tempted to tell you I was born in another year and then I found a Tony Bennett song that was a hit around that time. IContinue reading “Song Lyric Sunday”
Haiku for Healing
Haiku for Healing
There aren’t bad choices
Only right ones at the time
So follow your heart
The Ghosts Of My Past
The Ghosts of my Past
Words of love spoken by a bitter tongue
Fall like darts on tender skin with their piercing poison
Protests fall on deaf ears
As engagement turns up the volume
Of anger
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