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Rick Reiley's 'Mud & Bone' Defies the Grave - An Album Review

Nature’s vibrant colors scarcely register on the cover of Rick Reiley’s new record, Mud & Bone, before the realization sets in that the musician’s ghostly visage sits among the headstones of a cemetery. Early assumptions abound, suggesting an album that might serve as the regretful pining of a man morose and resigned to the confines of the grave.



But the album’s inaugural track, Gulf Breeze, fans away any reservations with island energy layered atop a folky backdrop. What follows… Continue

Added by Faith Phillips on February 21, 2011 at 10:52am — No Comments

Coffee with Qadaffi

Coffee with Qadaffi



(M elodramatic and world weary )



My life is so boring; there is nothing left undone

Everything is la de da and just so damn hum drum

Though I’ve been to gay Paree and seen the wonders of the world

Sometimes I want to take off on the run….or get a gun



Bridge

Because my life is stinkin’

I have done some thinkin’

Gonna hop an airplane; here’s what I’m gonna do:



(This part, time to swing it!)

1) I’ll…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 24, 2011 at 11:03am — 1 Comment

Lyrics to Waiting for Spring

This is a catchy littly ditty that one of my online singer/songwriters put to music. I Uploaded the music.

 

Here are lyrics

 

Waiting for Spring

1) I

I am

I am waiting

I am waiting for the beauty of Spring



2) I

I am

I am listening

I am listening for the robins to sing



Chorus

Wanna shed my coat

Wanna walk in the dark

Wanna hear the sounds of the ice cream man

Wanna thaw my heart

Wanna see…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 24, 2011 at 8:22pm — No Comments

for Uncle Tom

Last Thanksgiving Uncle Tom said, “In all these years, I’ve never so much as gone in for a check up”. Mom says it was because he sensed that something was changing with his health, and he was letting us know in his own way. For a while, he talked about moving back to Oklahoma to be closer to us. He didn’t want to be alone anymore. But then, when it really came down to it, he changed his mind again. Decided he’d just stay on his old place up in California. He’d been living on his own little plot… Continue

Added by Faith Phillips on February 22, 2011 at 12:06pm — 9 Comments

The Discreet Charm of the Discrete

I've just written a new essay and submitted it to the FQXi Essay Contest: "Is Reality Digital or Analog?"

If you are interested in science, please have a look!

Here is a link to my essay, entitled:

The Discreet Charm of the Discrete

Added by Paul Halpern on February 16, 2011 at 6:51pm — 3 Comments

The Nest

Made of twigs, perched high in the sky 

atop a smoke stack, not hidden from thine eye.

The twigs they poke, let in the smoke,

it hurts and I feel blind.

 

Safety is fleeting in the nest,

it's positioning is quite volatile.

I'm going, you're coming, I'm coming, you're going,

yet we watch over it all the while.

 

I know it will not last forever,

the wind will eventually blow it down.

But not until all that we…

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Added by Karrie Chambless on February 16, 2011 at 9:56pm — 6 Comments

Indulgences

Indulgences



Brownies éclairs chocolate ice-cream

Massage facial steam room mist

Brazil Samba Salsa Tango

Lobster pot wine kiss



Meringue Marengo Marimba martini

Ocean waves bikini sun

Snap jazz blues Bossa Nova

Rainbows blue sky fun



Saturation

Mystification

Inclination

Vacation



Passion Fruit incense fragrance

Sandals scandals bandits books

Eyes smile arms embrace

Mountains nature antique nooks…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 9, 2011 at 10:06pm — 2 Comments

Creative Writing Challenge #19-"I don't make New Year's Resolutions for myself, but one I'd like to make for someone else is...."

I would like us all to resolve to be kinder in the coming year.  Let's pretend that 9/11 happened only three months ago and we're all still in such a state of shock that we can't possibly be rude or nasty or dismissive of each other.

Added by Sheree on February 7, 2011 at 7:32am — 8 Comments

Days Work/Changing Times- New Lyric

'Days Work/Changing Times'

 

copyright 2011 by Rick Reiley



He went to the police station

With his momma's severed head in a bag

Asked them to…

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Added by Rick Reiley on February 5, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

Song; Don't Let It Snow Blues

Don't Let It Snow Blues

1) Punxatawny Phil didn’t see his shadow

So he predicted an early spring

Been freezing and snowing since last December

That groundhog doesn’t know a thing

Chorus

I shovel on Sunday, but more falls on Monday

When will this misery end?

We get a break for a day or two

Then the snow starts falling again

2) The Farmer’s Almanac used to be on target

And I believed what I…

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Added by Sherry Somach on February 4, 2011 at 2:15pm — 1 Comment

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Cold and damp and dark
All seep into aching bones.
I can not get warm.

Added by Jami Ward on January 16, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

Granny in the Snow

'Granny in the Snow'

copyright 2011 by Rick Reiley

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Granny looked funny

Layin' there in the snow

I don't think she ended up

Where she really wanted to go

When she stepped down the stairs

To feed the kitty cats

She tripped over my snowman

And fell on her face-

'Kersplat!'........



I was laughin' so hard

I couldn't stop

Watchin' granny roll around

With the snowman on top

The cats got scared

And jumped into… Continue

Added by Rick Reiley on February 2, 2011 at 8:23pm — No Comments

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I cannot promise
That anything will not change
Except for my love.

Added by Jami Ward on January 14, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

The Pointless Debaters Ball- New silly lyirc

'The Pointless Debaters Ball'

copyright 2011 by Rick Reiley

 

Is the right more right than the left sometimes?

Or is the left more wrong than the right?

What color should you…

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Added by Rick Reiley on January 20, 2011 at 11:53am — 1 Comment

Shiver : Haiku stuck on the fridge

Between rain and sun

Skin shivers with the thunder

Of her sleeping breath.

Added by Jami Ward on January 27, 2011 at 4:37pm — No Comments

"Some Things" - by my brother, Richard T. Krause

"Some things drift away in the wind, everyone watching it in awe.
Some things drift away in the water, everyone looking in wonder.
And some things, well some things stay put to be seen and never forgotten."

- Richard T. Krause

 

Added by Steen Krause on January 26, 2011 at 12:13pm — 2 Comments

359

Crow cries "Caw Caw Caw"
Under a dark silver sky
And then flies away.

Added by Jami Ward on January 13, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

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My nose is frozen;
Also my ears and my ass.
I do hate winter!

Added by Jami Ward on January 11, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

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My gorgeous baby,
What did you do to your face?
Two rings in your lip!

Added by Jami Ward on January 9, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

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I'm a little scared,
And I'm very excited.
A new day awaits.

Added by Jami Ward on January 8, 2011 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

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