Bob Ross: "Happy Trees"

Light to the Living (of Iniquity)

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Old

and the pain, spirits health rots
decline of excellence, life itself is experience
the oddity of age grows in step with the years
worried thoughts of what was and now is
trickle to the center of being, gone, gone
having existed, lived through, to know all of you
endured, underwent life in the past tense
all of this pastness, moments between
feelings, memories, dreams, gone, gone
measuring a life and this place in the world
oh, the family, friends, loved ones & sunsets
sunsets is now all I think about and people
watching the people now on the park bench
the way I think about young women, swimmin'
big blue world, grace of space I take, livin'
what have I given? back, what am I knowing?
to talk about this gift of life, how I grew to believe
in myself, how learned to make this life work for me,
how there is no difference in the man I am
than the man I want to become, the man I respect
myself, I am, the spirit returns, when I read my poetry
the eyes of age in the thousand yard stare
the eyes of age in the thousand yard stare
like everything it will pass, will anyone know to care?

George Waldrop- Old by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Fleeting Fixation

my life allows me to smoke
it's funny to think of my life,
my preoccupation of my life, like that
smoking is much more than inhaling
smoking is much more than exhaling
smoking is a romantic beauty with sadness
such is life, sad and beautiful
smoking is what you call an epitome of
fleeting fixation, emotional self-gratification
on thoughts, many thoughts, handfuls of sensations
in the same breath I feel how it hurt
to cough, sneeze, wheeze to freely breath
would you like a cigarette? yes, please
I converse with my soul and spirit
over woman's fascination with fire
control is power, freedom to think
freely flows this desire of fire and smoke
flicks the flame, smoke sparks the brain
oneness, wholeness & self-satisfaction


oh, the look in my grandfather's eyes
when he lay dying of cancer
the disgust in the tone of his voice
approaching me while smoking on that
warm, st. petersburg ocean evening
all the while the song of the folk purist
Carl Sandburg, plays in the background
"cigarettes will spoil yer life"
I know what is true
my life is more complete when my thoughts flow
my life is more exciting than quitting
quitting, is so definite
quitting is so well defined
quitting is free

Just For Today- A Time of Choice, Grace and Change

1. Robin Hubert- Just For Today
2. Irma Thomas- I Think It's Going To Rain Today
3. Solomon Burke- Understanding
4. Rory Block; Maria Muldaur; Eric Bibb- Lean On Me
5. Bill Fay- Cosmic Concerto (Life Is People)
6. Rodney Crowell- Ignorance Is the Enemy
7. Iris DeMent- Livin' on the Inside
8. Greg Brown- Summer Evening
9. John Mellencamp- Save Some Time to Dream
10. Jesse Winchester- Defying Gravity (Live Version)
11. Loudon Wainwright III; Shawn Colvin- A Heart Needs a Home
12. Amy Rigby- Don't Ever Change
13. Mary Gauthier- Mercy Now
14. Greg Brown- Let The Mystery Be
15. Bob Dylan- Every Grain Of Sand
16. Iris DeMent- The Kingdom Has Already Come
17. Blind Boys Of Alabama- You'll Never Walk Alone
18. Eric Bibb With Staffan Astner- Thanks For The Joy
19. Robin Hubert-  Change

Life Is People

maybe this world is the grand picture inside you and me
knowledge to know what to look for, is called prophecy
some have this sight to see
some hold on to this humanity
some know enough to claim goodness
as reality
I heard something profound today
association brings on assimilation
so think through those few friends you choose
they will be apart & make up you
you will listen to what they say
you will take on thier politics, those conversations, conflicts
transfix & mix with your own views
in the end those memories, those mental pictures
hold you when you are alone
fill your mind when you are on your own

George Waldrop- Life Is People by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Personal Truths for V

1. George Waldrop- Serendipity of Mental Illness(Loneliness Has Taught Me)
2. George Waldrop- In The Sharing of My Life
3. George Waldrop- Shining Love (Mary V. Yodice)
4. George Waldrop- I'm Important
5. George Waldrop- As I, Simply Drink My Tea
6. George Waldrop- Beautiful Sadness- Story of An Artist
7. George Waldrop- please, for me(Live In Reality)
8. George Waldrop- Honey and Salt (Carl Sandburg)
9. George Waldrop- Breaking The Constraints of a Individual
10. George Waldrop- The Flower Garden of My Mind (Ideas Come Hither)
11. George Waldrop- Sitting In Therapy
12. Texas Hobart, with King Crimson- Free Is Something To Be

Personal Truths for V by Texhobart on Mixcloud

Sultry (Soul-Tree)

lost beyond despair, hope of innocence
I ask this question of I, mysteriously of me
would it be inhuman to rid the world of sin?
trees chained by roots, birds chained by air
this asking in innocuousness, flesh flickering
a fire so full and bright burns of eternal light
lifeless of this, I ask this question fearless & free
to believe, would make a sound to my soul-tree
to believe, art of listen to cries of bird-skies to free
each line it seems rhymes with my truth
another life waiting in vain, connection with this pain
so mundane, so transcendental and far from me

Rootie The Buffalo

Out of the Fire (Time of the Revelation, Mindfulness To Fixate)

1. J.B. Lenoir- Born Dead
2. Gillian Welch- Revelator
3. Mary Gauthier- Your Sister Cried
4. Greg Brown- Rexroth's Daughter
5. Irma Thomas- I Think It's Going To Rain Today
6. Townes Van Zandt- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
7. Iris DeMent- Out of the Fire
8. Jesse Winchester- Defying Gravity
9. Forest Sun- Day By Day
10. Simon Joyner- Flying Dreams
11. First Aid Kit- To a Poet
12. Jerry Jeff Walker- Stoney
13. Kris Kristofferson- Tell Me One More Time
14. Linda Thompson- Lonely Hearts
15. Lyle Lovett- If I Needed You
16. Joan Baez- In My Time Of Need
17. Drunk- Mental Illness

Out of the Fire (Time of the Revelation, Mindfulness To Fixate) by Texhobart on Mixcloud