Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Lightning Rod wrote:The messiah has been drinking too much
besides, he is entitled to be wired
lika caffeine crucifixion
don't cross me

(glad to see your images, tom)

Thanks LR. I'm really liking your songs.

Lightning Rod wrote:let's take a trip to

New York State of Mind

thank you Billy Joel

Thanks for that one LR. Let's go to Roswell.

Aliens have fallen out of favor in these days of strip mall shopping.

At the corner of the world
He lowered himself down
To the rocks in the ocean
Where the Pacific became the Straight
She watched from above
Not as brave, not as limber
While he crept and stooped and arose and snapped
the photos that would hold their memories
of the corner of the world
still, the sight of him down there
so brave and so limber
was enough for her corner of the world.

I am reading and laughing
the road has roller coaster wheels
flat tires and roadkill
thumbs out, fingers thrown
smiles and fists
Christmas trees in medians
a boat in a ravine
waiting for a flood
stolen stop signs
a wreck, a good samaritan
I've seen it all

nearly ran off the road
watching a hawk chase a sparrow
at 75 miles an hour
there was that woman pushing a cart
100 miles from anywhere
anyone - where was she going?

at least I don't have to make the beer runs...

Howdy.

I have a beadwork of beer cans
zero to seventy-five in a six pack
lika blacktop to eternity

I hitch-hike
a roadrunner banshee

If I was her and she was me
I'd push that cart and she'd push me
chicken feathers, biker leathers, prickly pear spines
horse blankets, injun trinkets and jappy ginger wine
never saw an enemy and never lost a friend
I'll be her if she lets me and she can be me again

Well come and well met, buddahbitch

a beaded blacktop for Momma Natures bust: (Photo from the car, I-10 between FT. Stockton and Ozona, Cecil Lee)

She wore a funny pink hat with a big flower
her orange abstract print on a mumu
and plastic yellow sandals with a determined
look on her face...she was pushing it hard.

Maybe it was us, next year or next time?


Hey there JMP...glad you have the J in front of the MP!

this piece always reminds me of San Francisco in the rain

Coming Back to Me

The sun tops it arc,
common sense melts away.
A mercurial wind
betrays it confusion...
mostly a calm westerly flow,
but an urgent blast at times,
and the same awkward lull,
each time after.

trying to post here is like sloggin' through a corral after a weeks worth of rain...

I have to get up for the Farmer's Market
at 4:30 am and put up a tent so I must bid adios...
it was brief but I like brief

Here is a haiku in parting:

along the road
a redtailed hawk soars-
carry me home

sweet dreams travelers!

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Phine Photo, mnaz


The Peals are officially rumdum.
I'll let Mr. sign off for the both of us.

To a loverly jam (to be revisited upon waking)
JMP