An Invitation to Flight

It's Three Word Wednesday, and the words are lurch, odor, and frantic.

Such frantic motions spent in blind pursuit

Of norms defined by cultural expectations.

Wondrous places await in undilute

Expressions of purest inspirations.

Splendific odor of social decays

Beg for the masses to bathe in new scents.

Dried up traditions; Death of the old ways.

Alive in the choices true freedom presents.

Rennaissance; spontaneous creation.

Adventures of fantasy and surprise.

Lyrical, musical, imagic explorations.

The end of blind pursuit, with opens eyes.

A lurch to the left, then step off the edge.

Fly up to the moon and beyond, my fledge.

Time to Push Play

Well, I really did push the pause button on this blog, didn't I? I really thought I'd have my new blog in full swing, which was supposed to include poetry plus the happenings in exploring venues for performing music. I recently - like 10 minutes ago - was informed by James that the template we used sucks and only allows for a very small limit of blog posts to be posted. As in, the blog for some reason won't allow more than 10 posts per tab I have up there. Which means, I could have a total limit of 50 blog posts on the new blog we had set up.  Weird, right?


That's okay. James is designing a website for me instead, so it will be customized to be even better than the new blog. I'll have a blog section as part of the website. Meanwhile, I am back to posting here on a regular basis (see, I just pushed play).


The first month of 2010 has gone by, and good things are in the works. I've got myself a new guitar - a Dean Performer, acoustic/electric, plus a nice amp for it. The guitar I'd had for a while wasn't in great shape, and wasn't really going to cut it for performing live.


Anyhow, getting a job for 2 weeks over the holidays, then losing it before Christmas, then starting a job hunt all over again...meanwhile still home schooling the kids during the day....sapped some of my creative drive. I've sort of been in limbo. However, I'm seeing now the limbo isn't such a bad thing. Limbo can be like the calm before the storm.


I'm not just pushing play on this blog, but on all my creative stuff again. A decent tax refund has helped smooth out the beginning of our year. A new guitar, a new song in the works...based on the poem Ocean Tide. A new attitude even. That short foray into a "real job" has shown me once again that my heart lies outside of a cubicle.


I'll have a Three Word Wednesday posted up shortly, and the new song just needs to be recorded and that'll be up for you all to hear as well.


Until then.

Serenity

I have a new poem up for Three Word Wednesday, the words being: drain, epic, and nibble. It's posted up on my new main blog. I'd love to have all my followers here on A Muse in Me, join me at the new blog. That's where I'll be posting my poetry and more. 2010 is the year I focus on music and songwriting, so not only will you get to see my poems once or twice a week, you'll get to see my music career unfold play by play. I'll be posting regularly on my adventures in jumping back into the local music scene, with lots of pictures and video. You'll get to see poems turned into songs and put to music, and most likely hear it even before the live crowd does. Come on over to the new blog!!

Sunday Sonnet: Lost Summer

photo credit: amangupta

With summer comes the heat and memories
Of long walks, midnight talks, and wordless gazes.
Warm air caresses me, its scent a tease
That takes me back to all your whispered phrases.
Ecstatic energy exchanged, we swim.
At midnight our skin shimmers bathed in moonlight.
Our bodies aglow as the night grows dim,
We only want to hold each other tight.
But when the leaves begin to turn, alas
You take your flight back home. I'm left behind,
To grasp at faded pictures. To drive past
Those places our adventures use to find.
Lost summer passion wintered into ice;
Until again the balmy nights entice.