I have learned "Bird on the Wire" as it is written it doesn't sound right, not as Leonard plays it. There seem to be too many notes to fit in! Well, this might sound complicated, but it really isn't. If you want to play Bird On The Wire close to how it sounds on Live Songs, I'll tell you ...

First off I'll admit that I probably watch to much TV - we all have our vices. Anyway, the season premiere of Criminal Minds (The Longest Night)featured 4 songs: The Night Comes on; Dance Me To The End of Love; Sisters of Mercy: Who by fire. All were the versions from the original albums. At least n...

Myself and friend Joe will arrive Thursday depart the 12th. Include us as well. Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Vern

I'm originally from Thunder Bay (home of the largest finnish community outside of Finland and the wonderful nationally reknowned Hoito restaurant.) I live in Soo Ontario now, a mere 700 km away but I am considering a trip up to take in the show if I can work it out.

Vern

Unified Hearts somewhere along purpose found itself found fact in fiction desire from want on the pages we scribble into in the ledgers we keep the neat lines that trace down a page toward discovery community bound by a likeness held firm to a common thread through opposing views to one answer the w...

___1035___ here is the dream the plagiarized moments our hearts walk us through the step after step journey we all stumble after some surviving unscathed others cut to the bone bloody unforgiving ___1037___ i have a moment of sleeplessness before i write this before i am startled awake something tha...

Mat, These lines stopped me in my tracks, (as they say) Vern. What a Beautiful image. Shades of Prufrock in you evolving life/poem. Thank you for those comments. That is quite the compliment and perhaps undeserved. I did a paper on 'Prufrock' many many years ago in a University course and I am a big...

Sheila,
Thanks for your comments. After I wrote that one, I began to realize that I was beginning to enter the 'dirty old man' stage of life. Boy how things change when you can view them from an different position!!
Vern

Lizzy, I guess most of have experienced difficult moments in our lives and I guess it is how we come through them that speaks about who we are. The first few lines in this poem were written while lying in bed in a cardiac ward in a Toronto hospital where I spent three weeks. It was quite lonely as I...

___0330___ there it is again loafing in the shadows leaning up against the stone wall built to keep out strangers and others who pass by without connection to us sellers of religion or some other obscure door to door product we didn’t know we needed it is easier i think to let them in rather than ha...

Thank you Alsiony, I am quite happy with those lines. The poem itself is part of a series of poems I am working on that are basically connected (the two others I have already posted and one I will post later today.) They are the result of a little 'navel gazing' that I have been going through recent...

___1525___ do you ever think of all the things that happen in life that never happen to you ___1530___ like the romances always a part of the misdirection the distinctions we make between what we want to hold onto what we choose to let go and leave to wander in the what ifs that memory allows to hau...

___0050___ clinging to the ritual of life suddenly seeming important to know who you’ve been the way we pass each other talking softly gentle asides cautious hellos constant replies that shuffle into the thickness of emotion rattling the bones to the skin deep devotion to the meaning of words those ...

___0800___ knowing that we met as part of some unsolved puzzle made up of jagged pieces of glass each a different colour each slicing deep into the fingers touching them arranging them into symbols of meaning bloody fingerprints identifying the meager attempts at placing it all together even though ...

I saw that episode as well and debated whether to mention it here. After dropping her pen and the 'main character' Peter picked it up and read what was witten on the pen - 'Find The Crack' - and commented on how it was an odd slogan for a police force. She replied that it wasn't, then said 'In the d...