Posts Tagged ‘Cannonball Adderley’

Old-Timey Foolio

January 16, 2024

Just an old-timey foolio
Goofing off in schoolio
I could love you trulyo
If I got a chance

Words by Ira sung by Sarah
Paradise atop a stair, a
Geezer's head without a hair, a
Planet lonely for romance

What's New? by Cannonball
Autumn Leaves by Miles
The Very Thought of You by Wynton
Winsome winding wishful dance

by Richard W. Bray

With Nakedness my Shield

May 20, 2017

You can pry
And you can peel
You can flay
You can reveal

Strip me naked
To my soul
Detach my parts
To get my whole

Unlock pieces
That are real
Why I do
And what I feel

But who can ever tell me why
Cannonball Adderley makes me cry?

by Richard W. Bray