Month: June 2024

Surpassing Fear and Ugly Doubt

Anthony3 Comments

Just below the spectrum of sound

There’s an ugliness, free, abound.

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Through description isn’t needed

All my advice should be heeded.

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Ugliness, doesn’t speak it only feels

Pain and hurt that are all too real.

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Drowning rain on your sunny days

Crippling insecurities, all allayed.

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Sad thoughts bad thoughts come to mind

Leaving in each of us, a hurtful bind.

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Negative energy is where we’re at

“Too thin” “ Too redundant” or “Too fat”.

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Fight those dark thoughts, as best you can

Know we’re meant for better, is our plan.

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Pour salt water onto the seeds of doubt

A happy life is where it’s about.

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Take many chances, venture far from home

Endless miles from your comfort zone.

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Where growth and peace appear

And no longer living life In fear.

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As you pass each and every test

You come out the other side, as your best…

-aaa

An Expressive Writer’s Lunes

Anthony3 Comments

Finding the words.

To express how I feel.

Isn’t always easy.

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I craft carefully.

Choosing words that best fit.

What I’m conveying.

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Sometimes I struggle.

Racking my brain choosing them.

Must choose wisely.

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If I don’t

Then each of my writings.

Will be redundant.

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I’ll lose subscribers.

And quickly, just fade away.

Into all obscurity…

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Where are you Soulmate?

Anthony6 Comments

I’m as curious as a puppy

As boisterous as a guppy

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I can’t wait to meet you

I can’t wait to greet you.

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Where are you hiding

Are you flying or riding?

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I’ve miss you all these years

Through the hard times and the tears.

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In here and ready to play

So, what do you say?

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It’s time for you to appear

And make all my past mistakes clear.

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I’ll close my eyes and count to three

Hopefully, thereafter, you’ll be standing by me

Set my lonely heart and needing soul, free

As now, I’m who I’m supposed to be…

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My Favorite Artists (A-Z) Part 3

Anthony4 Comments

Audioslave, the alternative super band

Ben Folds Five, punk rock for sissies, very non-canned.

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Clash, punk Gods from Britain led by Joe Strummer

Deep Purple, who’s songs I’ll play this summer.

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Elder, a ProgMetal band I’ve seen live twice

Faith No More, I’ve loved since 1989, Mike Patton, their spice.

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Guess Who, the Canadian rockers

Hall & Oats, better singers than talkers.

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Iggy Pop, the punk rock king

Jeff Beck, and his guitar, covering blues, everything.

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Kings of Leon and their rocking jams

Little River Band, LRB to their fans

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Madness the fathers of SKA

Nine Inch Nails, and their industrial squawk.

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Oingo Boingo and their outrageous, defined sound

Public Image Limited with Johnny Rotten abound.

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Queens of the Stone Age, Alt/Emo supergroup

Radiohead, since 92, an amazing, experimental group.

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Sleep, doom and stoner metal thrashers

The Smiths, to some, new wave party crashers.

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Unicorns a crazy indi troop

Vandals another great punk rock group.

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Was not Was, walked the dinosaur

X-ray Spex, inside punk rock’s door.

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Yoko Kanno, Seatbelts Be-Bop composer

Zac Brown Band, now this list is over…

-aaa

My Favorite Artists (A-Z) Part 2

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Adam Ant, new wave at the forefront of the Goth flow

Beatles, my favorite band and one we all know.

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Cream the blues supergroup of their time

Doors of perception, with Morrison’s death a crime.

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Elton John, Aka Reginald Dwight

Flaming Groovies with their ProtoPunk plight.

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Granddaddy with their grunge light sound

Heatmiser where Elliot Smith can be found.

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INXS not the same since Michael Hutchins died

Jane’s Addiction even when Perry was fried.

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Killing Joke with their punk then New Wave

Led Zeppelin the mega supergroup the New Yardbirds gave.

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Muse with their sound so dark

New Order, even without Ian Curtis didn’t miss their mark.

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O.M.D., their influential sound caught on soon

Pink Floyd my favorite Progressive band with Dark Side of the Moon.

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Quasi, Scott Coomes and Janet Weis’s Portland juggernaut

Rolling Stones, and all the killer songs they’ve got.

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System of a Down from protest rock to punk

Talking Heads music with their eclectic trunk.

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U2, The Joshua Tree was my fave

Violent Femmes with their punk and new wave.

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Wings with Paul McCartney’s singing bass

X, my favorite punk band in the place.

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Yazoo with Alison Moyet and Vince

Zombies from the late 60s complete this list.

-aaa

My Favorite Artists (A-Z) Part 1

Anthony8 Comments

Alice In Chains a great grunge band

Beach Boys and their roots in the sand.

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Chicago that originated as CTA

Depeche Mode, fathers of electronica in their own way.

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Electric Light Orchestra, progressive band of strings

Fleetwood Mac and the way Stevie sings.

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Genesis with Peter on leads and Phil the latter choice

Harry Nilsson with his harmonies and velvety voice.

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Incubus with Warning can be found

Joe Jackson with his many sounds.

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Kenny Loggins with his folksy country roots

Love and Rockets with their large gothic boots.

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Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa as their boon

Nirvana with Curt Cobain who left us too soon .

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Oasis with the Gallagher brothers at each other’s throats

Police with Sting some say they’re the G.O.A.T.

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Queen with Freddy with his powerful vox

R.E.M. plays from their school of hard knocks.

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Steely Dan the studio Yacht Rock kings

Tears for Fears, the emotion their music brings.

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Umphreys McGee and their sound like Phish

Vince Guaraldi doing Charlie Brown if you wish.

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Wilco, Jeff Tweedy’s Alt Country Band

XTC, with a Brit PowerPop sound that’s grand.

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Yes is outstanding Progressive band my friend

ZZ Top with their rock roots brings my list to an end…

-aaa

Tough Goings Aren’t Bad

Anthony4 Comments

Little bird spread your wings

Move along, to better things.

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Fly high, far, and away

To a much better day.

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You are meant for better things

A happy life and the joy it brings.

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So take the lessons and your lumps

Uphill, downhill, flat ground, bumps.

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What doesn’t destroy makes you stronger

Take quick lessons and ones lasting longer.

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Find inner peace and a smile on your face

Living a life at your very own pace.

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In the end my friend, you’re you

Becoming the best in all you do.

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So there’s no need to cry or shout

When going gets tough it’s what life’s about.

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Life Party

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Blackened

Black Celebration

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Celebrate, good times, come on

Celebrate me home

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Home sweet home

Homeward Bound

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Bound for hell

Bound by love

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Love hurts

Love is the Seventh Way

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Way we were

Way down

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Downward Spiral

Down under

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Under the boardwalk

Under a raging moon

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Moon is up

Moonlight drive

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Drive my car

Drive me crazy

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Crazy, I think that I’m falling

Crazy for you

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You got another thing coming

You better run for your life

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Life is what you make of it

Life is beautiful

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Beautiful dreamer

Beautiful Boy

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Boys will be boys

Boys don’t cry

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Crying, over you

Cry me a river

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River boy

River runs red

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Red red wine

Red rain

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Rain on me

Rain is falling

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Falling in love

Falling from grace

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Grace and mercy

Grace under fire

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Fire down below

Fire in the hole

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Hole in my shoe

Hole in my life

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Life of the party

Life after life

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Life…

Party…

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Black Cat

Anthony2 Comments

Soft steps on padded foot

Claws withdrawn defense moot.

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He finds a quiet place to hide

Black tail flits as he gently glides.

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Acting site unseen

Thinking he got away Scott clean.

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Dark as midnight scurries away

While masters here, he will play…

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QOTD: #94

Anthony7 Comments

Write about your first crush.

My First Crush 💗 💗 💗

Having a sister that dances and competes as a dancer is never ever easy. In her younger years, I was bored to tears watching a bunch of girls dance, and I thought girls were icky at that time was very very boring.

Then, at age 11, I realized girls were not so icky and then I had crushes on the worst kind of girls in the world, the kind that were beautiful, fit, talented, the kind that would never give me the time of day to save my life.

One such girl was a year younger than me and competing with my sister for many years dancing. Not to mention she was also a very, very good singer, brownish blondish, hair and beautiful, brown eyes. I was completely smitten with her.

I remember playing basketball and doing layups professing my love to her as I ran up to the basket. The dumb things you do when you’re 11 and in love, I remember drawing a bunch of three-dimensional squares on a piece of paper and connecting them to other squares and other squares and other squares. Sort of an art project. not a very good one but when you’re in love, you’ll do anything.

I remember I gave it to her. She was with two other girls that were also pretty popular. I remember my head was down. My face was burning red, and I gave the paper to her and ran away.

I remember it always ask my sister if she was interested my sister danced with her and she always tell me these lines that were horrible put off lines like “that’s nice” or “she kind of likes me “. I sort of felt like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber when he presented with 1 million to one odds of being with the girl he loved, and he said “ so you’re telling me there’s a chance”.

There were some things we had in common though that was nice we both like Pac-Man and used to play doubles. I loved that being so close to her and that small space and she not minding and we cuss out the monsters when we played the game. Those are the moments I try to remember where we are all the same like in the same kind of things at that time video games MTV movies the one time we were all the same at least in that way.

I’d look for any small piece of hope, and I grabbed on it no matter how slim. This girl will go on to perform in starlight Express and Vegas for a while while at least I picked a good one for my first. I had a slight crush on her older sister in high school, singing and dancing. Boy does it capture my interest in fancy. I seen you recall another girl from the dance studio that was on commercials for Strawhat pizza and I had a crush on her for a while too. I think her name was Jennifer as well cruel how fate had me around these beautiful girls they were so talented and so uninterested in me.

As always, Thank you for reading.

-aaa

QOTD # 93

Anthony22 Comments

What countries do you want to visit?

This is basically like my bucket list so I’m gonna share the places I want to go and what I wanna do.

Go to Iceland stay in an ice hotel and see the aurora borealis

Australia

New Zealand

Spain

Italy

Greece

France

Tahiti

Alaska

Hawaii

Bora Bora

Easter island

Brazil

Argentina

Japan

Polynesia

Jamaica

Bahamas

French Riviera

England

Ireland

Amsterdam

Egypt

Tibet

And South Africa

As always, thank you for reading.

-aaa

A Pleasant Date in Laguna Beach

Anthony5 Comments

She softly stood near a mangrove bush

My heart blazed as we talked

She turned me to a pile of mush

As I held her hand then we walked.

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Her hazel eyes were warm to me

Each time I happened to catch her gaze

I felt the best for being just me

As her charms touched me in many ways.

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I stood on the side of traffic

Walking, just to keep her safe

Our mutual attraction, quite prolific

Which was not done in haste.

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Checking out the galleries

All nearby Laguna Beach

Not worried much about calories

As we dined at the cliff side’s reach.

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The meal was done

All we could handle

For more fun

We shopped for candles.

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Bee’s wax formed

And lovely scents

Earlier poured

And cooled by vents.

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The store keeper and I

Shared our crafts

Upon which candle makers rely

And other facts.

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Later as it had gotten dark

We journeyed back up the hill

To where we’d left my red car parked

And further adventures await us still…

-aaa

Applied Life Lessons

Anthony3 Comments

Be happy not sad

Be rather glad

As quality of life will add

And that’s not at all bad

Instead it’s rather rad

And the knowledge is iron clad

Not at all a passing fad

Evolution, your life’s launching pad…

-aaa

QOTD

Anthony13 Comments

How do you want to retire?

I want to retire a successful writer with many books published living my dream life traveling the world, cruising and having the best time. With a fantastic woman by my side.

As always, thank you for reading.

-aaa

QOTD

Anthony6 Comments

What’s your favorite thing about yourself?

I have a few favorite things about myself.

I’m a sensitive empath, I’m a creative person. I love to make things in writing and music.

I’m pretty bright too. I kind of pick up things quickly. I like that about myself.

I was a pretty good sight reader when I played drums I’m like that about myself and I love to sing and enjoy music.

As always, thank you for reading.

-aaa

Fool Moon Rising

Anthony1 Comment

I was born under a fool moon

Late in the month of June

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I make mistakes like any fool would

Lessons learned as best I could.

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Applying all the knowledge to my life

Makes lessons learned less filled with strife.

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Be thankful of the moon of the fool

As ignorance served as your tool.

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In the end in all amounts

It’s your peace and happiness that counts…

-aaa

Revelations (Lune Series)

Anthony1 Comment

Tell me about.

Something that you hold close.

To your heart.

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Share with me.

All off the relevant details.

Never hold back.

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Those are important.

They describe all you share.

With much digression.

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Be not afraid.

I will not hurt you

With this knowledge…

-aaa

Diluted

Anthony5 Comments

I’m

Diluted

Like

Adding

Water

To

A

Sauce.

Diminished

Reduced

Less

Or

Watered

Down.

That’s

What

Narcissistic

People

Do

To

Our

Spirit.

Leave

Them

Where

You

Find

Them…

-aaa