January 25, 2025
I only have one thing to say
What are you gonna do today?
It's not a quiz
There's no wrong answer
Dance because you're not a dancer
Cook some eggs
Take a shower
Photograph the Eiffel Tower
Find a game
You like to play
Lollygag your time away
Have a beverage
With a friend
Read a novel to the end
Walk your dog
Smell some flowers
Sit around and talk for hours
Meet a deadline
With your team
Binge a show about a queen
Wax a roadster
Hike the hills
Debate the merits of free will
It's not about what others do
Do the thing that's right for you
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Armineaghayan, children's poetry, Children's Literature, Flowers at Northern Avenue, Poetry
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January 17, 2025
The world is a river
It sings to me in rhyme
Tiny specks of matter
Straddle space and time
The rhythm of the ocean
Berries on the vine
The universe in motion
Your body talks to mine
Vagrant spirits jingle
Clad in sundry hue
Everything that ever was
Lives inside of you
The rhythm of the ocean
Berries on the vine
The universe in motion
Your body talks to mine
A smile and a sunbeam
A moment and a prayer
A notion and a daydream
Your love is everywhere
The rhythm of the ocean
Berries on the vine
The universe in motion
Your body talks to mine
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Georgette Owens, love songs, lyrics
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January 8, 2025
History hurts and hunger haunts
Crazy is the right response
To bombs and guns and poverty
And men who trade in misery
Crazy has its price to pay
And it don't push the pain away
Photographs are flat and wrong
Profiles sing an empty song
Crazy has its price to pay
And it don't push the pain away
Wind and raindrops sun and snow
Watch the weather come and go
Fiddledum and fiddledee
I like the way you look at me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Doxymo, love songs, lyrics, Mexican Crazy Lace Agate
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January 1, 2025
I told Candace Walter's cheating
I told Megan she was fat
I said Gail's looks are fleeting
And that's such an ugly hat
I told Dan his son's a loser
And his wife is scarfing pills
I told Frankie he's a boozer
They should pay me for my skills
I told Ted his breath is frightful
It could make an angel cry
The truth is so delightful
I'm a great and fearless guy
I'm tenacious and observant
I refuse to pull my punches
I'm a real public servant
They should honor me at lunches
I'm a paladin of virtue
In a world of falsity
If reality can hurt you
You're a fool for blaming me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Honesty Scrabble, Humor, humorous poetry, losers, Nick Youngson, Poetry
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December 27, 2024
A phantom and a promise
A kiss, a smile, a lie
Back when our love
Was alive enough to die
You ghosted me for days
You haunted me for years
You don't have any right
To ask about my tears
Now suddenly you emerge
From the shadows of deceit
Asking about my loved ones
And sounding so sweet
You ghosted me for days
You haunted me for years
You don't have any right
To ask about my tears
Seeking greener pastures
When it's time for you to roll
You leave behind a wasteland
For the famine in your soul
You ghosted me for days
You haunted me for years
You don't have any right
To ask about my tears
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Cruel, lyrics, Muhamed Husain, sad songs
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December 24, 2024
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
–John Lennon
When the long knives come out
And the landscape turns to Hell
There won't be any omelets
Just a pile of eggshells
Bombs in Iraq,
Bullets in the back,
And crazy Comrade Lenin
Knows who to attack
Summary execution
Is that how you cope?
When every kook starts shooting
It's a slippery slope
Bombs in Iraq,
Bullets in the back,
And crazy Comrade Lenin
Knows who to attack
If you found a messiah
Who tells you who to kill
You're mistaking mental illness
For that phony red pill
Bombs in Iraq,
Bullets in the back,
And crazy Comrade Lenin
Knows who to attack
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, John Lennon, lyrics, vigilantism, Vladamir Lenin
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December 19, 2024
Sometimes I like to wear shoes
But I never watch the news
That stupid guy on the tv
Don't give a crap about me
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
I do things the way I please
I like my burgers with some cheese
I like the rivers and the trees
And I appreciate them bees
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
That big machine is taking notes
All my preferences and votes
Every letter that I wrote
And all the writers I can quote
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
I ain't no standard deviation
You can scour the population
You won't find no correlation
Cuz I'm a walking aberration
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Ju gatsu mikka, lyrics, Village stats Konoha.svg
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December 7, 2024
Ticky tacky talk
They sneak and stalk
And lie and mock
And put you in a box
They take you down
And break you down
They're never leaving
This old town
Avoid abusers and accusers
Losers gonna loser
I'm not a beggar
I'm a chooser
They take you down
And break you down
They're never leaving
This old town
They'll never let you be
But they can't shackle me
They're just a memory
I'm happy flying free
They take you down
And break you down
They're never leaving
This old town
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Chris Seaton, country music, Country Music Lyrics, gossip, losers, lyrics
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December 4, 2024
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
-Theodore Roethke
What is beauty?
What is love?
What is color?
What is art?
What is laughter?
What is sunshine?
What is rustling
In my heart?
What is real?
What is romance?
What is magic?
What is true?
What are raindrops?
What are roses?
What are puppies?
What are you?
What is light?
What is time?
What is space?
What's a star?
What makes
The heavens sing
Everywhere
You are?
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Andy Dixon, Booooooom!, country music, Country Music Lyrics, I Knew a woman, love songs, lyrics, Theodore Roethke
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November 29, 2024
We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.
-Djuna Barnes, Watchman, What of the Night?
Get home before the sun goes down
This ain't no ordinary town
Cool your mind – keep out of sight
Don't bestir the doom of night
Hairy hounds released from hell
Zombies under wicked spells
Fiends and fury from The Fall
Moloch Gorgon Satan Baal
Tell-Tale Heart – The Witch of Coos
Now it's time to pay your dues
Spirits demons lunatics
I hope your house is made of bricks
Stay inside and lock the door
Don't look outside – don't ask wherefore
Calm your heart and clear your head
Keep a lantern by your bed
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Djuna Barnes, Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Robert Frost, scary poems, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Szatan, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Witch of Coos
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