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Happy New Year Jan, I try and cover a lot of ground and different moods with my attempts at poetry.
Piri, hope your all refreshed for the New Year after your holiday. My thoughts at times tend go off on all sorts of weird tangents. A big part of my relaxing time is spent reading I try and incorporate all these strange things that fascinate me into my writing. Thank you for your encouragement and feedback.
Cheers Jan and Piri. Even though I put Maree into my song I'm not sure if she was that impressed with my effort.
Cheers everyone glad you all enjoyed Muireann.
I think this down to earth 16 year old Irish girl Muireann Bradley has a great future. Not only wonderful playing on this video there is also some real good banter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYVRUR2woBw
Hi Jim and Piri good to see you on here
And carrying on
Today is a new day
Tomorrow it will be yesterday
A day that has gone
As they say things carry on and move along
Do I remember all the people I knew
Do they remember me
It is hard to say
All I know is Yesterday is a good song
I write these words
In the hope that Chordie grows this year
Becomes big and strong
This is my entry for this month called "Grandad Guitar". I hope this entry of mine is not flogging a dead horse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-0I1GwUH1A
Happy New year here are my word suggestions for January
Grandad
Guitar
Phone
Home
Here is a song I wrote called ""Quiet And Simple" to help kick start 2024 Any comments welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4n0tQso7E
Quiet And Simple
Soft and gentle that’s what I want
I don’t want to be in those places where people are driving me crazy in the crowd
I don’t want to be in a mental frenzy where everybody is loud
Soft and gentle
Soft and gentle
Soft and gentle
Soft and gentle
I believe that the best things that happen are in a quiet natural space
Away from the crazy human race
Its not that I don’t like people
And I sometimes find when i’m with the people below the church steeple
Its not always is the way that you think its going to be
Well we all have different versions of anchoring
We all have different beliefs
But I tell you what suits me is a place where I can find peace
I don’t need a building but it will be nice to have a bit of shade
When the sun shines out on this place
I don’t worry to much about what folks are thinking
I do my thing
But I’m peaceful and obliging as can be
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
That’s me
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
That’s me
Chewing the Breeze
With me and my Maree
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
Quiet and simple
As me
Jim when it comes to writing good songs your natural ability. shines. A good song to start 2024 I look forward to hearing it.
Cheers Jim, “The Alchemist" by Paulo Goelho is a book I haven’t read. I just looked it up on the internet it is a book judging by the reviews that I would very much enjoy. So I will put that on my list of books to read in the New Year.
Thank you and Happy New Year
Pete
Here is a bit of a word play poem I wrote for fun.
Happy New Year to all you good Chordie folk
Professor Anity studied humanity
Many knew him simply as Prof Anity
His wife Violet was also known as V Anity
Their son Steven was known as S Anity
There daughter India Naomi Silvia Anity was a famous psychologist who was also known as INSAnity
The conversation around their dinner table was well know for all its Profanity
They also owned a tea company known as Annie Tea all grown and packaged in the town of Granity
Jim, I love the way he used the xylophone in that song.
The human body is made up of trillions of cells, each with their own structure and function. Cells are constantly dying, and new ones are being made simultaneously. On top of that, the actual number of cells will vary from person to person, depending on their age, height, weight, health, and environmental factors. As I don’t have the ability to count the cells in my body I picked the number One Hundred Trillion.
One Hundred Trillion Cells
After their gone around here there is always a song
A way of honour and celebrating what’s gone
Keeping us together
Keeping us strong
I said goodbye to many friends this year
Even though their presence might be distant from here
Some how there are parts of them still near
Close to my heart though we might be apart
When I look at the skies I realise we all move on from here
The universe is a thing of wonder
Many other people thoughts I have plundered
Not meaning to steal their thunder
The small things can often deceive
A universe its expanse so hard to perceive
I am just a dot in a picture a pen prick on a page
In the stillness of time I contemplate the things that star in my mind
When the storm rages
I look for an anchor that has been around for ages
Pointing my prow into the waves
I remember those who are now in their graves
Don’t worry about me
I’m not depressed just pushing on like the rest
I’m making the most of my life until my eternal rest
In my hours of darkness there is a distant light
That makes me not give up the fight
What drives me on is the 100 trillion cells that make up an adult body
As one year ends a new one begins
There are many possibilities an abundance in many forms that excites me
Jim, this is a good song and it. could also be sung by a choir in a Nativity scene.
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda to you Piri and your family plus everyone else on Chordie. Or as they say in Tenerife Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo. I would love to experience Tenerife at Christmas time, chilling out around a pool after enjoyng all the good food and drink they have on offer there. No doubt with my family hoping that I don't try and do a bad version of Jose Feliciano, Feliz Navidad.
Piri, that is brilliant I love the way the story develops in the lyrics. Love those sorts of songs where someone aint done right when looking for romance. A gallant knight taken by a con artist Honkytonk Barroom Maiden pretending to be something she aint. Its Rock and Roll and I like it yes I do.
Peatle, good message in your poem "always shine your light". Some other good lyrics in there too such as "you can not edit an empty page".
Phill, that's another good piece of writing by you.
Thank you, Jan and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Good one Richard your song Two In The Afternoon it evokes images of my past Ocker Christmases when I lived there. Aussie Christmas days in the heat.,Akubra on my head to keep the sun off my face. Tshirt, shorts and thongs on my feet. Enjoying a barbie while supping some cold amber fluid. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Good one Piri, I agree with Brian great words, you never disappoint.
Jim that is definitely a song a Church congregation could sing.
December
You can not edit an empty page
The only way to write is to write
If you cant sing the song or play along
Always shine your light
Do it till it feels alright
Even if at Christmas you don’t feel like singing Holy Night
Just do what you feel is right
Open your heart and others will see your light
Gold and Diamonds in your mind will flow into humankind.
If you don’t write a line then there isn’t something to remember
After all it is December
Another year nearly done
Before we start a new one
Good one Brian.
Jim, that has a good Gospel choir lyric going on there.
Richard, Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas great choice to cover. Nice vocally you pulled it off. That is not an easy song to sing. Guitar worked well also.
Grah, I loved the comedy and your performance of your song.
Jim, that is a good song you wrote, I could imagine it been sung by a church choir with someone like Lauren Daigle on lead vocal. To use a line from your song that is a good wish at this time of year for everyone, "May the Spirit of Christmas fill your heart with peace and joy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbhM0IgS5Iss.
Thank you everyone for your interesting comments and Season Greetings to you all. I notice that my extended family in Canada and the USA say, “ Happy Holidays “ at this time of year. It has often fascinated me how Shane MacGowan song about a drunken gambler and terrible relationship with his lady has become a much loved Christmas song. I suppose its that chorus about NYPD choir singing Galway Bay as the bells ring out on Christmas Day that evoke a sentimental Christmas feeling. I think that’s the genius of Shanes writing that a song about a couple that hate each other can mean so much to people. RIP Shane MacGowan. Even though its summer here today it is a cold miserable day. Maybe I should pop down to our local Mall and ask Santa who is working there today if he would like to have a beer with me. I wonder how many fake Father Christmases end up in the Police drunk tank on Christmas eve. I guess New York would have a few of those stories.
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