After YEARS of searching, I found a Karaoke apparatus that had “Light My Fire”. But it wasn’t listed! The guy had a disc of 40 songs that he had neglected to add. So I did an astonishing version of “It’s Now or Never”. Late in the evening, when the crowd was thinning out, and there was no one at the mike, he put on the forgotten disk. I heard the opening notes of a song I’d been looking for for a long time, and I shouted, “You didn’t TELL us you had ‘Light My Fire’!” I rushed up to the mike, started the song on time, and of course, did an excellent job with it. Too bad Ray Manzarek wasn’t there to hear it.
Aug 13, 2007, 08:56AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Beyond the desert, where no rivers flow,
A passing cloudmass closes off the sky.
The parched Earth craves what the clouds bestow,
Before its rugged heart becomes too dry.
But the heedless clouds spend their surplus of rain
On greener fields that are fed by many streams,
Whose need can scarcely match the dry terrain
Of the desert, which in arid stillness dreams.
A desert is neither barren nor bare,
Its challenging ways still permit life to thrive.
But the clouds that pass by will remain unaware
Of the paltry endowment it needs to survive.
Apr 10, 2007, 12:14PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
In ancient times, upon the Earth,
There stood a mirror that reflected the sky.
But then, at civilization’s birth
It shattered, and scattered fragments on high.
Since then, when people have found a piece,
They’ve been impressed with what they’ve seen,
So much that the quest for truth would cease.
But what can a single fragment mean?
For many, their own selves is what they see,
An image they can’t recognize or understand.
Still others feel their one shard is the key:
Mere thought of other pieces must be banned.
I wonder what wonders would be in store,
If we could see the sky unbroken, just once more.
[This was published in a major Catholic magazine. I think if they udnerstood it they might not have!]
Apr 10, 2007, 12:11PM PDT | 2 comments
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