Remember to Sing

 

“Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.” —J.R.R.Tolkien

 

This may well be our own about time, time

to walk out that comfortable front

door forever into danger. Nothing will ever

 

be the familiar same again.

The soft heartbreak is that all fellow-

ships even good ones have an arc and

 

turn back on themselves as they are 

ending. There is a permanently

ugly danger now that is rising

 

in front of you and one more and more

pronounced coming up behind you like

a crawling and hissing predator arrow. That

 

is only the facts, they are not the

rightful answers you seek. Any way

let's say peace is a bit of luck for

 

anyone only lasting for the 

moment, but there will always be this

romance; the adventure is always

 

better for a touch of merriment.

Remember to sing the songs you love

and share them with the stars. This the dark

 

enemy cannot fathom in its

bolted down fields of sharp ended painful fits of sleep.

Never forget what you are living

 

one more tired and hungry day for or

the most beautiful and important

faces you can remember seeing

 

like shining bright windows on top of

the world. Help is ever there in the

true nature of all things. As your poet,

 

this time around, I want to be with

you constantly in these few words. Take me with you

and take care, friends. I believe in you

 

as I believe in the quest for more thirst quenching love.

We are bound together to the end

Of all actions and all dreams as well.   

Bonus poems:

Soft Shoulder Work Ahead

by Darryl Price

Art Department (an Early Draft)by Darryl Price

 

It's all about seeing what you can do

with what you are given. Take as much time

as you need. Construct something that looks like

something you'd like to see constructed. Don't

 

worry about what the other guys might

think. This is yours for the entire time it

takes to be complete, finished to your

satisfaction—something only you will

 

know. None of us can say when, we only

know what your attempt makes us feel like, and

that may be colored over by our own

desire to create something out of what

 

is already there in our heads. But if

you are true to yourself then it should speak

a familiar sounding language

we all understand like music, laughing,

 

like food, like fun, like dancing but with your

unique signature on it. Tell us a

story, we are listening. Show us a

sign, we are looking for another way.

 

Leave us a handprint, we will know you were

here. Beam us a signal, we will read the

cloud's faces with great interest. Use all

color and shape to bring us deeper, and

 

into your images, if the texture

feels right we will respond with our own dreams

and ideas, we will release our hearts

from their self-imposed cages. We'll thank you. dp

Filling a Hole by Darryl Price( an unfinished draft)

 

You have no idea what the angel said to me. She made high promises

She had no right to keep those to herself. She locked me in the

Eyes and said, “Why are you so sad?” I don't know. I didn't

know then either. It doesn't matter anyway. She has always been silent on

 

any other subject since. The angel spoke to me and many people thought

I was talking to myself. I took it for granted that everyone saw her, too.

What I saw. A young vision in a brown overcoat with brown caring eyes

And a kind of memorable even voice like a telephone. You have no idea the feeling of

 

Miserable loss I experienced. I didn't ask for her visit. She spoke to me out

Of the blue canvas uninvited. I trusted her quiet sincerity like one believes in

A beloved love apple. It makes no difference now. No poem ever brought me to

Her face again. Look, I said to a friend, she gave me her

 

Phone number, so how could she be a phantom when there's a piece

Of proving paper lying here in my hand? Don't cry, he said. There's nothing there.

Only a fool remembers such a waking dream all his life.  Who would

Play such a blinding game on someone, I beseech him? Love can't see itself.