August 7, 2024 6:59 am
Published by Eden Sher
With a harpoon to the heartYou have snagged meWith a harpoon to the heartYou’re on my tailAnd there’s nothing I can doTo ever shake loose from youAnd you don’t even know you’re Ahab in this tale Everywhere I turnYou’re never that far distantEvery now and thenI think I’m clean awayBut then you reappear and no matter how hard I steerI know I’m gonna have to fight another long night and day On this wide, open seaI can never ever be... View Article
August 7, 2024 6:59 am
Published by Eden Sher
All I want is eight hours sleepWhat I’d give for eight hours sleepOn my feet againAt the windowpaneWatching the cold moon riding on the deep Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of careHelp for hurt minds, sore labour’s repairEvery day’s sweet deathEvery night’s dear breathDeep balm for worries and despair Oh, I have money enough, food on the tableBooks on the shelf and a body still ableAll that I love and my dear ones to hold and to keepBut... View Article
August 7, 2024 6:59 am
Published by Eden Sher
I’m going nowhere you won’t find meI’m double business boundTrouble before and behind meAnd my clock is winding downI’m doing my best to reach that shore But I gotta go the long way ‘roundOh, please remember me kindlyI’m double business bound My little wagon is loadedMy pony’s had a good feed of hayI’m counting on the night to be cloudedSo no one can see my wayOh, moon, hide your face, you don’t want to knowMy enemies are all aroundTo my fate... View Article
August 7, 2024 6:59 am
Published by Eden Sher
I’ve been talking to the deadWith this photo album here in my bedPicnics, parties, long agoSome are strangers, many I know All those smiling faces Now here’s a wedding and there’s the brideAnd my handsome dad smiling by her sideJust out of the frame I guess a band is playingAnd I wonder what words to him she’s saying All those smiling faces Second row, third from the rightYoung Uncle Jim who got called up to fightBeside him Meg, his fiancéPretty... View Article
August 6, 2024 4:28 am
Published by Eden Sher
I’m going to the river with dadIn the kitchen the old kettle’s singingI’m gonna get up soon and get out of bedOutside the cockatoos are callingI’m going to the river with dad I’m half awake and half dreaming Now we’re driving down that old, bumpy trackBetween us the thermos of sweet tea steamingLines and spears and bait up the backThat old river appearing and disappearingI’m going to the river with dadAll my brothers and sisters are still sleeping We’re going for... View Article
August 6, 2024 1:34 am
Published by Eden Sher
Put on your houndstooth dress now, darlin’Slip it on, I’ll zip it up before we goI want to walk right by your side into the partyAnd see every head turn everywhere that houndstooth goes Put on that houndstooth dress, darlin’Put on that houndstooth dress! Now that houndstooth dress you told me sure was a bargainWaiting for you on a rack in a downtown second-hand storeSomebody else must have shrunk or else outgrown itBut that dress sticks to you like a... View Article
August 2, 2024 8:15 am
Published by Eden Sher
Do you remember our future?Well, I doWe saw the arrow from the archerAiming trueThe plans we made and promisesThe love we swore we always would renewIf we could go back to the futureWould you? The day you brought home a Silver Princess In a potI helped you plant it by the back fenceThe perfect spotAll that summer, every eveYou watered it and sang to make it growNow that tree nods to strangersWe’ll never know Pleasures are like poppies spreadYou seize the... View Article
August 18, 2023 4:52 am
Published by ntechmedia
You stand there looking so surprisedSad confusion in your eyesI know what you’re going throughOh, baby, I’ve been there tooAnd it hurtsI was taught by experts You say I playa cheating gameI never keep the rules the sameI learned a thing or twoWhat I learned I learned from youAnd it worksI was taught by experts You put the weapon in my handYou made me what I am Now everything has turned aroundDown is up and up is downYou got your... View Article
August 15, 2023 6:12 am
Published by ntechmedia
She was born by northern riversWhere the land breathes fire and floodShe can tell the coming weatherIn her bones, her body and her bloodI was born here, on a southern bayConcerning me, there isn’t much to say She grew up on northern riversColoured birds sang her out of bed each dayShe made friends with wild creaturesThey filled her dreams, her study and her playShe is wild too, hard to keep in viewThe more I know her the less I do... View Article
