Melobee arts and crafts

EACH TIME I QUESTION WHY (Can be sung to the Moody Blues tune "VOICES IN THE SKY" while inviting new melodic interpretation)... Black... birds, ravens, crows, Do you bring bad news? When your... cries... startle me What thoughts do I choose? As answers to live by Each time I question why. White... birds, cooing doves, Pigeons in the park. Your voic...es... comfort me At dawn or after dark As answers to live by Each time I question why. {May we continue to see} {We are one planet evolving to be} {Conscious and free.} Sha...men, beating drums, Dancing to their sound, Your man...tras... speak to me Between the sky and ground As answers to live by Each time I question why. Yo...gis, Tai Chi mimes, Moving to be still. Your si...lence... speaks to me Like sunshine on a hill As answers to live by Each time I question why. {May we continue to see} {We are one planet evolving to be} {Conscious and free.} Black... birds, ravens, crows, Do you bring bad news? When your... cries... startle me What thoughts do I choose? As answers to live by Each time I question why. (For Holly, Daeran, Kristen, Brian, and Friends, March 25, 2019. Broadway Roastery, Saskatoon) VOICES IN THE SKY Blue...bird..., flying high Tell me what you sing If you... could... talk to me What news would you bring Of voices in the sky (Voices in the sky) Nightingale, hovering high Harmonize the wind Dark...ness..., your symphony I can hear you sing Of voices in the sky (Voices in the sky) {Just what is happening to me} {I lie awake with the sound of the sea} {Calling to me} Old... man, passing by Tell me what you sing Though... your... voice be faint I am listening Voices in the sky (Voices in the sky) Children with... a skipping rope Tell me what you sing Play... time... is nearly gone The bell's about to ring Voices in the sky (Voices in the sky) {Just what is happening to me} {I lie awake with the sound of the sea} {Calling to me} Blue...bird, flying high Tell me what you sing If you... could... talk to me What news would you bring Of voices in the sky Voices in the sky Voices in the sky Voices in the sky The Moody Blues - Voices in the Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPEMZteFjWc How to Be a Mime : How to Mime a Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBAD_EI-uI

SOME OF OUR NAMES FOR SECRET LOVE Who is the girl next door who died a thousand deaths... I could not help with all my kung fu breaths, Who greets me now as soul survivor of The slings and arrows of our tough guy love? Who is the soul mate that I search for now While dancing naked at my lone pow wow? What is the mystic sound of one hand clapping? What is that Raven at my window tapping? What is that fist unclenching in the glove Receiving now the hawk that ate the dove? Can this be what we're really speaking of As phoenix fire we've named our secret love? What is that Sufi poetry about That puts all our most cherished hopes to route? What is that fire that burns down every norm Remade with broken boards from last year's storm? Can this be where the mystic poet delves Who deals with gargoyles and our secret selves? Was old St. Valentine the one good priest Who recognized the beauty in the beast. Who married Mother Earth with Father Sky So that the low could be devoured by the high? Were harlots graced with sacred hearts of gold Like vestal virgins warlords bought and sold? Can this be Dante's three part Comedy We call Divine in all our misery As egos are unmasked by ecstasy Like shadows of free spirits we can be. Can this be where an old poetic story Can show us heaven, hell and purgatory? Can this Inferno be a boiling frog pot hell Unless our circles open till they spiral well As Purgatory pathways love arranges Where music of the spheres may guide our changes. Can this be grist for Don Quixote's mill Where dragons grin amidst the wheels still? Can this be what the hero's quest concealed As golden dust the rainbow's end revealed? Do heroes and their heroines expire To be reborn as One in Spirit's fire? Can this be what we're really speaking of As phoenix fire we've named our secret love? (For soul mates and lovers of magic realism everywhere, February 14, 2017 & 2018 Saskatoon, SK)

WE HAVE LEARNED THROUGH LOVING (Can be sung to the tune of "UNCHAINED MELODY") Let us speak of loving, Kind hearts so dear to me....Continue reading

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST (Can be sung to the tune of "LARA'S THEME")... Now that I'm here, Present in my own past, Time travel here Unites all views at last. We were estranged When anger made us unkind But now we've changed, Watching our lives unwind. {Clear how} {Projections make views unclear.} {Here now} {Deceptions all disappear.} Shadows on mirrors; Cartoons of black and white; Old films of fears Paint black the coloured light. Instinct as guide Brought me full circle here Where love abides Connecting up every sphere. {Clear how} {Projections can cloud time's mirror} {Here now} {Perceptions become more clear.} Singing a song Tuned to the long ago Brings back so strong Deep feelings we all know. Fee...ling the myth, Fee...ling the metaphor As kinfolk and kith Healing the wounds of war. {Clear how} {Love can erase all fear,} {Here now} {Our heart songs clear every sphere.} Ghosts of the past Return back to their source. Christmas at last Renews our sacred source. Angels displace The demons of all past fear. Glory and grace Make present a grand New Year. {Clear how} {Love can replace all fear,} {Here now} {Our heart songs clear every sphere.} {...humming the verse tune} {into meditative silence...} (For all the girls with whom I`ve shared moments of glimpsing the eternal, ever-present fact of divine love, December 8, 2010, Saskatoon) Roger Whittaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUQo2p5kLFU intrumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yd2PzoF1y8 Al Martino vocal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_bo4nVhHmQ SOMEWHERE MY LOVE (LARA'S THEME) Somewhere my love, There will be songs to sing, Although the snow, Covers the hope of spring, Somewhere a hill, Blossoms in green and gold, And there are dreams, All that your heart can hold.. (Someday,) (we'll meet again my love,) (Someday,) (whenever the Spring breaks through..) You'll come to me, Out of the long ago, Warm as the wind, Soft as the kiss of snow, Till then my sweet, Think of me now and then, God speed our love, Till you are mine again. (Someday,) (we'll meet again my love,) (Someday,) (whenever the Spring breaks through...) You'll come to me, Out of the long ago, Warm as the wind, Soft as the kiss of snow, Till then my sweet, Think of me now and then, God speed my love, Till you are mine again.