Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Genie

 

I'm a genie
Watch your bottle
Sending up a little cloud.

I'm a swirlie, 
not a girlie
I'll stay a while
if I'm allowed.

I'm a genie
Always will be
It's in my name
And I am proud.

Changing shape is how I travel
Now you see me, then I'm gone
Very strong but insubstantial
Little golden light that shone ....

to keep you safe
And light your way
Every night
And every day 
But watch me change
Then we can play, 
Watch me change
Watch me change. 

.... but after all, I'm still the same

Monday, 15 September 2025

Sam's Song - lyrics


For those she loved

She'd walk a thousand mile

She'd move a mountain

Do it with a smile. 

For her, the cat

Would always swish her tail,

And beloved dog 

followed without fail.

Chorus

You can hear her laugh 

You can see her smile 

She was full of light

She burned so bright.


Despite no cash,

She would still send flowers 

A rose or daisies

Pleasure for hours,

And poems too

Or printed socks

And love songs love songs, 

Songs that rocked.


Chorus


She wore bright clothes 

And hated grey

Elegant and stylish 

Every day.

Ecuador songs

followed her around 

The dancing beat,

The Latin sound.


Chorus


She dreamed a dream 

Of a faraway place

Transformed her van

Into a magical space.

A travelling temple

Of beautiful things

Where folk could sleep 

And dream they had wings.


Chorus


She was a woman of laughter,

Woman of light

And now she's gone

Gone into the night.

But she's not far from kith or kin

She'll always be with us

Carried within. 

She'll always be with us

Carried within.

She'll always be with us

Carried within.



Chorus x2

Dummes Zeug

 

That sits in my head
To you. 

So dumm.


Monday, 25 August 2025

Every day and in the night

 I think of Sam.


I have written two songs for her, but they won't settle down. instead they grow with fragments added. So many memories.


I remmeber ringing her and hearing that chuckle at the end of her voice

when she said, hello, or hang on a minute, or

I'm driving now, it's fine.


Telling me about how she was given away as a baby.

Just for a few months, a bit like me, really

born at the wrong time.

But actually it was the right time.

It all worked out in the best possible way.

She went back to her old mother,

I got a new one. which was more than ok.


I'm rambling again. Must get on with the songs for tonight.




 



Ich komme geflogen

Ich komme,

ich komme

fast wie ein Vogel

über Hügel und

Ocean

hierher

geflogen.


Over the sea

Over the sea

Zehn tausend Meilen

Are nothing to me.


Ich komme dich

halten,

komme dich

holen.

Fest und

sicher, 

endlich gesehen, 

hoch gehoben,

glänzend, golden,

locker and free. 


Ich bedanke dir immer

so look at the sky. 


Warte nur

Balde bin ich 

Dabei.


Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Flying

 



Walk

ing

is

hard,









but

Fly

ing

is

easy peasy



Walk

ing

is slow,



but

Fly

ing

is 

super speedy

Verwandschaft

 

Du bist 

NICHT

mein Onkel

mein Sohn

mein Vater

mein Bruder

mein Liebling

Was denn?

Was

bist du mir doch? 


Ist Freundschaft nur eine schwache Verbindung? 

immer zebrechlich...


wer weiss.....

wer weiss?


Wieder erkennen?

 


Mein Gesicht

zerbricht

in tiefen Krevassen,


die von lachen

und weinen

Und leiden


her

kommen


Mein Gesicht

Sieht nun

Ganz

Anders

Aus

Als

Früher.


Ich

Weiss

Nicht

Ob du mich

Erkennen

Wirst.


Oder

willst?

Wrong Words

 


I stumble and

trip

over

words

that lie like logs

fat obstacles

that block my path


They

should

be

tools.

Helps not 

hind

rances.


I bend down

to

look at

them.


They

are the

wrong

words,

all of

them.


One

by

one,

I kick them away

and they land 

in

pile,

a

log jam.


I can't get 

through

or

re-

arrange

them into sense

or 

beauty.


So I

am left

with

nothing

to show

you,


you

whom I am

trying

to 

reach ....


and comfort.