Dreams....

Still Dreamin....

Strange Dreams....

Only When I'm Dreaming....

All a Dream.....

Don't Like to Dream....

Secret Dreams.......

Talkin in my Sleep....

Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey - Songs from Vagabondia

Vagabondia

Off with the fetters

That chafe and restrain!

Off with the chain!

Here Art and Letters,

Music and wine,

And Myrtle and Wanda,

The winsome witches,

Blithely combine.

Here are true riches,

Here is Golconda,

Here are the Indies,

Here we are free,

Free as the wind is,

Free as the sea,

Free!

Houp-la!

What have we

To do with the way

Of the Pharisee?

We go or we stay

At our own sweet will;

We think as we say,

And we say or keep still

At our own sweet will,

At our own sweet will.

Here we are free,

To be good or bad,

Sane or mad,

Merry or grim

As the mood may be,—

Free as the whim

Of a spook on a spree,—

Free to be oddities,

Not mere commodities,

Stupid and salable,

Wholly available,

Ranged upon shelves;

Each with his puny form

In the same uniform,

Cramped and disabled;

We are not labelled,

We are ourselves.

Here is the real,

Here is the ideal;

Laughable hardship

Met and forgot,

Glory of bardship

World's bloom and world's blot;

The shock and the jostle,

The mock and the push,

But hearts like the throstle

A-joy in the bush;

Wits that would merrily

Laugh away wrong,

Throats that would verily

Melt Hell in Song.

What though the dimes be

Elusive as rhymes be,

And Bessie, with finger

Uplifted, is warning

That breakfast next morning

(A subject she's scorning)

Is mighty uncertain!

What care we? Linger

A moment to kiss—

No time's amiss

To a vagabond's ardor—

Then finish the larder

And pull down the curtain.

Unless ere the kiss come,

Black Richard or Bliss come,

Or Tom with a flagon,

Or Karl with a jag on—

Then up and after

The joy of the night

With the hounds of laughter

To follow the flight

Of the fox-foot hours

That double and run

Through brakes and bowers

Of folly and fun.

With the comrade heart

For a moment's play,

And the comrade heart

For a heavier day,

And the comrade heart

Forever and aye.

For the joy of wine

Is not for long;

And the joy of song

Is a dream of shine;

But the comrade heart

Shall outlast art

And a woman's love

The fame thereof.

But wine for a sign

Of the love we bring!

And song for an oath

That Love is king!

And both, and both

For his worshipping!

Then up and away

Till the break of day,

With a heart that's merry,

And a Tom-and-Jerry,

And a derry-down-derry—

What's that you say,

You highly respectable

Buyers and sellers?

We should be decenter?

Not as we please inter

Custom, frugality,

Use and morality

In the delectable

Depths of wine-cellars?

Midnights of revel,

And noondays of song!

Is it so wrong?

Go to the Devil!

I tell you that we,

While you are smirking

And lying and shirking

Life's duty of duties,

Honest sincerity,

We are in verity

Free!

Free to rejoice

In blisses and beauties!

Free as the voice

Of the wind as it passes!

Free as the bird

In the weft of the grasses!

Free as the word

Of the sun to the sea—

Free!

Read them all here: http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/Bliss%20Carman/vagabondia/index.htm

"Resume"

I got my first false kiss

from cold indifferent ignorance

but she quickly pulled away

and ran upstairs.

So I drew a hot bath

Like a roman suicide

but no blood in the water

only gentle virgin's tears.

I got my first real kiss

from unexpected big heart bliss

leaping over boundaries

clutching tight, kissing right

whispered teachings in the car

I almost learned

but couldn’t quite.

I lost my virginity

to an enormous rolling sea

of acceptance and affection

pulling me in her direction

and just begging for five seconds

of my hurried ecstasy.

Oh I tried my best to love her

but my heart could never cover

the ugly sharp disdain

of my hated haughty mind.

How come they only love you

when your serotonin's high?

How come they only see you

when you fit in, when you hide?

How come they never love you

when your just your lonely self?

Because you only love them

when you try.

"King Charlamine, the Dumbass"

King Charlamine, the dumbass.

First of his name

I wear the crown that starts the reign

of King Charlamine, the dumbass,

walking in the rain

I hear the echo of the shame

of King Charlamine, the dumbass,

speaking to himself

of cold lost memories and what else

belongs to Charlamine, the dumbass,

Imagined golden crown

and his sceptre hanging down

down to dead days, the dumbass,

holding on so tight

won't give in without a fight

so he squeals and so he slaps

runs away until collapse

but King Charlamine, the dumbass

can't be killed so easily,

beneath his burning bodhi tree

he realizes emptiness

so when you swing you always miss,

King Charlamine, the dumbass,

with nothing much to say

so he pours out every day

down the drain of pages white

with a coward's meek delight

its King Charlamine, the dumbass

with his fingers in his ass

dreaming of a loving lass

can't be learned and can't be taught

always sold but never bought

is King Charlamine, the dumbass

pretending not to care

till he weeps and tears his hair,

in the bucket of despair

you will always find him there,

face reflected in the slops

madly laughing till he drops

and fades away....

To return another day

and continue on the reign

of the poor tormented brain

of King Charlamine, the dumbass.

Merry Xmas!

To my dear friends.

The Favorite Instrumentals

David Axelrod- Terri's Tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDTYbki8-tg


Lonnie Liston Smith- Desert Nights

Misled Children- Track 2

Stringtronics- Mindbender :Tropicalia

Donkey Kong- Stickerbrush Symphony

Ramsey Lewis- Legacy

Madlib- Fallin

MF Doom- Orris Root Powder

Arthur Verocai- Sylvia

Lonnie Liston Smith- Bridge Through Time

XXYYXX- About You

Mike Oldfield- Ommadawn

Pharaoh Sanders- Freedom

Kool and the Gang- Summer Madness

Bob James- El Verano

Lonnie Liston Smith- Bright Moments

Zero Seven- Polaris

Madlib- Distant Land

The Art of Kano Kazunobu

From "500 Arhats"

https://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/masters-of-mercy/