Soft Sojourn

Aloha,

                      This photo can symbolize a journey from darkness to the light. Writers also can infer or imply meaning using symbols. Let's write thinking about symbols today.      Enjoy!

Genre: Jazz

               You Were Awfully Good

On the face of it I never forget a name

Just leave a trace of it I'll get in the game

To name a few I have paid some dues a time or two

Only you... You were awfully good

I should have run away long ago like everybody else did

Who am I kidding long years of sitting in that lonely woodshed

A life lived in good spirits gives no demerits

Just horses and carrots but you...you were awfully good

Inspired by the cold and the dark

I take my little walk, in magical fashion

Sooner or later passion does as compassion should

And you...you were awfully good

In the safety of a cluttered mind

An artist draws what he sees what he finds

Museums of the world all await

To say hey you we'll take two that's great!

Never properly introduced

No problem we gently reproduce

If the media raises the heat, see if it could 

Because you...you were awfully good

Likable Recyclable

Aloha,

                   This little gem was found at the bottom of the boat harbor near Waikiki . .... the same fictional boat harbor Gilligan left on his "three hour tour" before we all became stranded at Gilligan's Island. This information is an example of backstory.

                   Writers don't have to be famous to come up with little phrase gems they like. They can do that in their reading activities. Great writers record their personal favorite "little gems" as  journal entries. They may discover their style in this way. Let's think about that as we write today.           Enjoy!

Genre: Jazz                                         

It.s a Rhythm Thing  

So brutal your honesty, honestly ruthless beautiful you 

Some say you must lighten it up for you know who

So cool you, your rhetoric too, bright like a brick you hear it tick

Now and then if you will, just say if you're ill or feel a bit sick

It goes by quick, you won.t feel the sting .. It.s a rhythm thing

 

People really listen as those words you glisten 

They swoon and they sway with the voice of their choice 

Another chat another day hear it as you say,

"Trust the sway, feel that swing".. It.s a rhythm thing

You bet your boot someone gives a hoot 

Those things you might do or may, or so they say

You.re the fashionable bling ... It.s a rhythm thing

All that remains are slight discernible stains

Not so squeaky and clean, still they know what you mean

Right then and there it.s up in the air for all who care

Some kind of change it.s a bird it.s a plane

Single words can.t explain what life will contain

And that song you sing .. It.s a rhythm thing