Yellow Rose of Waikiki

Aloha,

               This photo has no caption, yet viewers know enough symbols from their own experience to give this photo meaning. Great writers also use symbols to stimulate reader imagination. Let's ponder the idea of symbols as we write today.      Enjoy!

Genre: Jazz Pop

                      Camera Daze

One fell swoop grandiose swoon

See you back here by noon bring your balloon

You are so right about that point to a degree

Fight it out show your pedigree

Lower your fears go on a jilting

As hover gears do a little tilting

Like a first love with a slow glow

Cameras are ready get in the show

No fading go trading no kidding

Hedge with it if conditions permit

Where's my caveat are we there yet?

Looks like a good one neck and neck

Affection collection deeply conditional

Political phenom bring on collateral venom

Animation contamination or elimination

Drama steady and so camera ready

The usual candy counter candor

Taunt your detractors font for impactors

Tasty and queezy if you please

Love your maverick ways and camera daze

Smokey Road

Aloha,

                 This photo was shot in the morning light in Waikiki. Can you imagine the shadows as smoke? The contrast in light allows us to do this. Writers also use contrast to stimulate the imagination of their readers. Let's write using contrast today.               Enjoy!

Genre:  Jazz Pop

                     

                      Destination Desolation

The time is near for us to face this thorny question

By any other name can a rose still be a a rose?

This may be the time to raise a new suggestion

Put your hand in mine,  see if love shows

Could we have a little walk, take a little time to talk

Feel the rhymes of these fast changing times

Plan a destination , or are we already there

In the lonely world of explanation

Destination desolation ...  it has its own ring

Destination desolation ...  is that the song we sing?

What are the chances there will be no more dances

Give me a clue... enhance our enchantment

Some people will say they still like the math

Others say we're "gonna take a bath..."

Tell me it's not true, that's not what's in store 

With what life we have, we can still fight for no more 

Destination desolation

                

Rainbow Forest

Aloha,

                  The photo was taken at a beach hotel in Waikiki. This quiet parrot is a macaw whose dynamic color engages us in a visual way.

                  Great writing is "dynamic" when it engages our feelings, hearing, intuition, smell, intelligence, taste, and touch. Let's consider this idea as we write today.             Enjoy!

Genre:  Jazz Pop

              How's It Going Over There?

How's it going over there you who are so far away

I guess things are OK or so you say

How's it going over there in your wild and blue 

Have you finally gotten with it or has it gotten you?

Does anyone ever fake a dream

Stand in line for the next to scream?

Honor one who's not quite where it's at

Can we really do that?

How's it going over there you so tested by time

Still tasting the wine dally sublime

In your brain a little home on the range

Take life's lavish ride all apologies aside

It's fair to say love will come your way

Once you define it the heart of gold

Only you can mine it then be sold 

Find someone who cares only then and there

Is it fair to ask "Hows it going over there?"

 

Genre : Blues Rock

            There Being a Next Time

I'll play it pretty then I'll play it again

Bring in the beast to visit all my friends

Show my hand then let out a breath

I'll play it pretty you do the rest

Shake this joint with rattle and rhyme

Meet up again somewhere down the line

Local folk follow me in a great big line

I'm getting myself used to there being a next time

Recovery discovery get me off the shelf

I'm going to be a good friend to myself

Try to play it pretty try to make it shine

Get myself used to there being a next time

Flower Beach Song

Aloha! 

 I shot this on my way home.... the inspiration for today's lyric.

Genre: Jazz Pop

          Flower Beach Song

   

Though some light may

Naturally darken the view

When feelings have their say   

Life remains true

Out now in the bright lights

The glitz the glamor the fame

Mothers and love still remain

Back home from where you came

Do the best tell the world

Your heartfelt little songs

Embrace the human race

Sing the world belongs

And now as the summer goes 

So goes collective souls

Only the winter knows

How long yet thunder rolls

Eyes see clear into view 

Desert sands ocean blue

Stars shine on the morning cool

Warm memories be the jewel

 

Wake those hearts

To a beautiful sway

Start up ramparts

Let dreams have their say

Distant streams float magic boats

Where dreams can honestly say 

Together we made it 

Nothing will fade it

Our little history along the way

 

Dream Beachboat

Aloha!           

Here is a little inspirational tip from the Islands.

See something a little quirky, shoot it, then write your song.

                           

Genre: Jazz Pop

                      My Little Plan

You should know

You should know I'm coming your way

Some day

That's all I can say

Yes that'll be

Me on your radio, I'll be  somebody you know

Make you dance, I welcome the chance

So fast I'll soon be, reach you softly

Gentle then furious,  make you curious

As I implement my little plan

You will come to understand, someday

Yes I'm gonna be

That thing that goes around

That little sound 

That puts tears in the eye, empowers the shy,

Sets love on the fly, yes that little sound

That thing that goes around

The stream in the sand where lovers hold hands

That's my little plan

They drift and they float

In a little dream beachboat

Yes I'm coming your way, someday

That's all I can say