September 17, 2024
The good thing was I knew
I wasn't good enough for you
As your love for me grew
There was nothing left to do
I crawled away from your skirt
My digression was overt
Digging deeper in the dirt
I could never stop your hurt
The good thing was I knew
I could never love you true
I didn't have the will to stop
Until our love was on top
Now I'm a silly stupid fool
And my carelessness was cruel
The good thing was I knew
I wasn't good enough for you
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, love songs, lyrics, Manda Noorzad, sad songs, The Pain
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September 8, 2024
Beyond the white snowy silence
And the nothing that is here
The hunger for existence
Overcomes its natural fear
Energy and motion
Eons gurgle into years
Consciousness and matter
Are suddenly clear
Every proton, every planet
Is alive and sincere
You can still hear the music
When it all disappears
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: DALL-E, Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Wallace Stevens
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September 1, 2024
Win the world
Lose it all
Diplomas
Hanging
On the wall
But nothing there
To break your fall
Paint a picture
Live a lie
Dream your own decline
Friends and lovers
Say goodbye
You fall for pride
Every time
Hate and war
Here we go
Roller coaster ego
Climb aboard
Choose your foe
Close your eyes
And lose your soul
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, lyrics, Nick Page, sad songs
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August 28, 2024
You look at my face
But you don't see my mind
All you really want
Is a pretty behind
You wanna hold me
But you don't wanna know me
You're looking for
A dream-come-true
Who's gonna live
Her life for you
You wanna hold me
But you don't wanna know me
All you're gonna do
Is waste my time
Go back to your world
And stay out of mine
You wanna hold me
But you don't wanna know me
You wanna hold me
But you don't wanna know me
You wanna hold me
But you don't wanna know me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: A Nymph in the Forest, Charles-Amable Lenoir, country music, Country Music Lyrics, lyrics, Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
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August 23, 2024
Bless God that we catch faint glimpses of his brighter Paradise from occasional Heavens here.
–Emily Dickinson
Her, a bed, a book and me
I kissed her goodnight
And then I put her to sleep
Her, a bed, a book and me
On occasional nights
Doggie makes three
Her, a bed, a book and me
An extraordinary poem–
McCarthy's Suttree
Her, a bed, a book and me
A universe of love
And eternity
Her, a bed, a book and me
The greatest pleasures
Are actually free
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Cormac McCarthy, country music, Country Music Lyrics, Emily Dickinson, love songs, lyrics, Suttree
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August 10, 2024
I don't need to know
every place you've ever been
everything you did
every thought you ever had
ever since you were a kid
I don't need to know
where you learned to walk that way
how you fix your hair
where you got those pretty shoes
the designers that you wear
I don't need to know
the alchemy and mystery
the parts that make the whole
when dandelions and daisies
intoxicate my soul
Is it magic? Is it moonlight
That makes the evening glow?
As long as we're together
I don't need to know
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Chris Rutledge, country music, Country Music Lyrics, Gerbera Daisy Vitality, love songs, lyrics
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August 2, 2024
I hang on to my hatred
Cuz it tastes so good
It's safe and familiar
Like my neighborhood
I hang on to my hatred
Cuz it knows my name
Wagging that tail
It's totally tame
I hang on to my hatred
Cuz it's always the same
It doesn't go changing
And hurting my brain
I hang on to my hatred
To ward off the pain
It's a great place to hide
From the Universal stain
I hang on to my hatred
So the acid in my guts
Can find a new home
Instead of driving me nuts
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Dosseman, losers, Poetry
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July 23, 2024
Eyes and hearts and thoughts and tongues and souls
Filling out the forms and playing roles
Lilies roses time and weeds and stones
Dancing dreaming walking all alone
Beauty sorrow wind and breath and joy
Living rousing romps of girls and boys
Love and truth and grief and spring and sun
Singing every day until you're done
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Children's Literature, Poetry, Poetry for Kids, Thingstodoinbarcelona
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July 5, 2024
just because I like you
it doesn't mean
you have to like me
you flirted and you smiled
I buzzed around you
like a bee
but you got bored
and left me hanging
like a monkey in a tree
just because I like you
it doesn't mean
you have to like me
just because you like me
it doesn't mean
that we're gonna be
I know I don't fit in
with so many things
you wanna be
just because I love you
it doesn't mean
you have to love me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Joe Vandello, lyrics, sad songs, Sadness
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July 4, 2024
Hyenas hustle
Curtains rustle
Candles flicker
Spirits snicker
What's that
Frazzlepat?
Jiggling bed's
Just in my head
Somewhere
Over the cuckoo's nest
I shut my eyes
But there isn't any rest
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Bernard Dupont, Children's Literature, poery, Poetry for Kids, scary poems
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