Day: May 17, 2021

Happy House by Siouxsie and the Banshees

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a rock band, formed in London in 1976 by Siouxsie Sioux (vocalist) and Steven Severin (bass guitarist). Initially associated with the punk scene the bad evolved to create a form of post-punk discord of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation. Their debut album, ‘Scream’, was released in 1978 to critical acclaim. They disbanded in 1996 following a career that included 11 studio albums and 30 singles.

Happy House
Album: Kaleidoscope
Date: 1980
Genre: Punk/New Age

Lyrics by Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin

This is the happy house — we’re happy here
In the happy house — oh it’s such fun
We’ve come to play in the happy house
And waste a day in the happy house
It never rains

We’ve come to scream in the happy house
We’re in a dream in the happy house
We’re all quite sane
This is the happy house — we’re happy here

There’s room for you if you say “I do”
But don’t say no or you’ll have to go
We’ve done no wrong with our blinkers on
It’s safe and calm if you sing along

This is the happy house — we’re happy here in the happy house
To forget ourselves — and pretend all’s well

There is no hell

Flower by Rabindranath Tagore

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Flower

Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.

I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am
aware, and the time of offering go by.

Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time.

Rabindranath Tagore
Born: 7 May 1861, Kolkata, India
Nationality: Indian
Died: 7 August 1941, Kolkata, India

Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist. He is credited with reshaping Bengali literature and Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913 he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A Brahmo Hindu with ancestry in Burdwan and Jessore, he began writing poet at eight years old. At sixteen, Tagore released his first substantial poems under the pen-name of Bhānusiṃha. He had graduated to short stories and dramas using his real name by 1877. Tagore was a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and an anti-nationalist, denouncing the British raj and advocating Indian independence from Britain

Day in Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Day in Autumn
1902

After the summer’s yield, Lord, it is time
to let your shadow lengthen on the sundials
and in the pastures let the rough winds fly.

As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness.
Direct on them two days of warmer light
to hale them golden toward their term, and harry
the last few drops of sweetness through the wine.

Whoever’s homeless now, will build no shelter;
who lives alone will live indefinitely so,
waking up to read a little, draft long letters,
and, along the city’s avenues,
fitfully wander, when the wild leaves loosen

Rainer Maria Rilke
Born: 4 December 1875, Prague, Czechia
Nationality: Bohemian-Austrian
Died: 29 December 1926, Montreux, Switzerland

Rilke was a poet and novelist, widely recognised as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets writing both verse and lyrical prose. His works invoke images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, anxiety, and solitude

Moment of Bliss

~ JezzieG

Form: Arabian Onegin Sonnet

Sweet fragrance hidden deep within her heart
Revealed in dreams when the senses depart
Sweet fragrance hidden deep within her heart
Entrancing desire the teasing her art
Oh please kiss me my lover let me feel
Oh please kiss me my lover let me feel
Open my heart with nothing to conceal
Enter my dreams so they may become real
Release the spirit of love in your kiss
As our lips meet and our hearts dance in bliss
Release the spirit of love in your kiss
In that moment of joy my soul can sing
In that moment of joy my soul can sing
For you are to me my everything

©JGFarmer2021

Sam by Olivia Newton-John

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Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John is a singer, songwriter, actress, activist and entrepreneur. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time with over a 100 million records sold worldwide. She starred in the musical film Grease in 1978, and the soundtrack is one of the most successful in history, featuring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta’s two duets ‘You’re the One That I Want’ and ‘Summer Nights.’

Sam
Album: Don’t Stop Believin’
Date: 1976
Genre: Pop

Lyrics by John Farrar and Don Black

I heard that you’re on your own now
So am I
I’m living alone now
I was wrong
So were you
What will you do?

Are you glad to be free?
Are you feeling lost just like me?
Longing for company
Oh Sam, Sam, you know where I am
Come around and talk awhile
I need your smile
You need a shoulder
Oh Sam, Sam, you know where I am

And the door is open wide

Come on inside
Longing to see you
Oh Sam, Sam, you know where I am
I find the days hard to face now
Empty rooms
There’s much too much space now

And the nights go so slow
I’m sure you know

Wish I knew what to do
It would be so nice seeing you
And it might help you too
Oh Sam, Sam, you know where I am
Come around and talk awhile
I need your smile

You need a shoulder
Oh Sam, Sam, you know where I am
And the door is open wide

Come on inside
Longing to see you
Oh Sam, Sam, you know where I am
Oh Sam, you know where I am
Oh Sam, ooh Sam
You know, you know
You know where I am

Crusade

~ JezzieG

A Garret Poet

Form: Kyrielle

The feelings numb when all is still
In the quiet a heart’s free will
Through its own emotions to wade
In silence where senses evade

The unseen tears then free to cry
As questions ask of only why
With nothing left as nothing stayed
In silence where senses evade

Talk to me now before too late
Speak words of love don’t make me wait
Before my heart begins to fade
In silence where senses evade

Capture my thoughts before they go
And hold my soul within life’s flow
And keep me brave when I’m afraid
In silence where senses evade

Hold me close and caress my fear
Let me belong with you, my dear
Be my honour my own crusade
In silence where senses evade

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©JGFarmer2021

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