I am gone
30 March 2020
Did you see ?
The ripple-clad lake
In shining
Replicates
The wonders that we can be
When we’re pacified
Speak to me
The birds have lost songs
Their beaks blue
Like my soul
My mind relinquished control
The lack in your words
Hone me slow
Caress my feathers
I am gone
In song shrill
Birds calling on window sill
They follow shadows
Reading of the poem:
Within – Winter Aid
Shadows in my eyes
20 October 2018
Battlefields anew
Conqueror and conquered writhe
Scars only outcome
Moonlight rises pale
Extinguished now the sorrow
A new song finds heart
The light falls on brow
A quiver on my eyelid
Shadows in my eyes
Reading of the poem:
To the Moon and back – Savage Garden
Just Heart to Heart
3 March 2018
I know you’ve been fighting
This thing that you’re right in
So let’s start confiding
The secrets we’re hiding
Baby you lost the game
No need for shame
We’re far apart
Maybe you feel the same
Let’s play again
Just Heart to Heart
My darling my sparrow
I’ll ease all your sorrow
We’ll find time to borrow
Live like there’s no morrow
Baby you lost the game
No need for shame
We’re far apart
Maybe you feel the same
Let’s play again
Just Heart to Heart
So let’s start confiding
The secrets we’re hiding
We’ll find time to borrow
Live like there’s no morrow
Baby you lost the game
No need for shame
We’re far apart
Maybe you feel the same
Let’s play again
Just Heart to Heart
Baby you lost the game
No need for shame
We’re far apart
Maybe you feel the same
Let’s play again
Just Heart to Heart
Singing of the lyrics: Version 1:
Version 2:
I wanna be with You
18 February 2018
Remember the day we met
We were both down on our luck
We were filled with past regret
I remember you gave me a hug
The days went tumbling by
Love was our daily bread
It was only you and I
I remember when you said
I wanna be with you
I wanna feel it’s true
Baby give me some love to see me through
I wanna touch the sky
Don’t tell me it’s a lie
Baby when you’re with me I feel so high
We’ve both grown so far apart
We don’t even talk anymore
Though I hear your beating heart
I’m stranded here on this shore
I still remember the way we kissed
And tears well up in my eyes
I know that what I’ve mostly missed
Is how you said between our sighs
I wanna be with you
I wanna feel it’s true
Baby give me some love to see me through
I wanna touch the sky
Don’t tell me it’s a lie
Baby when you’re with me I feel so high
I wanna be with you
I wanna feel it’s true
Baby give me some love to see me through
I wanna touch the sky
Don’t tell me it’s a lie
Baby when you’re with me I feel so high
I wanna be with you
I wanna feel it’s true
Baby give me some love to see me through
I wanna touch the sky
Don’t tell me it’s a lie
Baby when you’re with me I feel so high
Singing of the lyrics:
I wanna be with You – Geetha Balvannanathan
Baby say you love me
11 February 2018
We’ve been through tougher times
And I’ve sheltered you awhile
We’ve felt the waves of hurt
But I’ve always seen your smile
So trust me when I say
Baby let me make you the center of my world
Baby never let them make you doubt what you heard
Baby say you love me and I’ll fly like a bird
Baby I’ll be with you no need for a word
We’ve seen the desert storms
I’ve held you all along
We’ve learnt from past mistakes
We’ve grown so tall and strong
I know you hear me when I say
Baby let me make you the center of my world
Baby never let them make you doubt what you heard
Baby say you love me and I’ll fly like a bird
Baby I’ll be with you no need for a word
Just trust me when I say
Baby let me make you the center of my world
Baby never let them make you doubt what you heard
Baby say you love me and I’ll fly like a bird
Baby I’ll be with you no need for a word
Baby let me make you the center of my world
Baby never let them make you doubt what you heard
Baby say you love me and I’ll fly like a bird
Baby I’ll be with you no need for a word
Singing of the lyrics:
I know you love me still
19 January 2018
Thinking about the things that we used to do
The bond that was built between me and you
The life that we had shaped that seemed so true
All that’s left of that love is my heart so blue
I know you love me still
Your heart calls to me shrill
And I won’t stop until
I break through to your will
We had so much going between us two
You and me is the only thing that I knew
Now I’m left dazed and with no clue
Why the lies they said shattered us too
I know you love me still
Your heart calls to me shrill
And I won’t stop until
I break through to your will
We had so much going between us two
You and me is the only thing that I knew
The life that we had shaped that seemed so true
All that’s left of that love is my heart so blue
Singing of the lyrics:
I know you love me still – Geetha Balvannanathan
I feel you
7 January 2018
I wonder where you are
I see you close and far
I see you everywhere
You’re every breath of air
And I feel you. Yes I feel you
In every action
I see your passion
A chain reaction
That I am caught in
And I feel you. Yes, I feel you
We’ll brave the rocky ride
We’ll take the days in stride
I will walk by your side
My groom I’ll be your bride
And I feel you. Yes I feel you
Singing of the lyrics:
In the inner Truth
6 October 2017
Consciousness
A spiralling cord
Oscillates
Synchronised
In fluctuations that point
To memories alit
Reading bliss
In shadows turned blue
Pearl abode
Fearless sword
Cutting through superfluous
Reach infinite core
Dual touch
Revival complete
Self replete
Path to pleat
Songs of yesterday repeat
In the inner Truth
Reading of the poem:
Together – Talvin Singh & Niladri Kumar
See the fate that brings us together
13 September 2017
I looked upon
The notes of a silly song
Strumming through my head
Through my heart code red
See the fate that brings us together
See the fate that brings us whatever
We could not see through
We would not see through
See the slate now written forever
See my plate piled with the leftover
We will now pile new
We should now eat new
My heart you’ve worn
On a head that has been shorn
We lived through what was dead
Saw it was well alive instead
See the fate that brings us together
See the fate that brings us whatever
We could not see through
We would not see through
See the slate now written forever
See my plate piled with the leftover
We will now pile new
We should now eat new
A trial of music for the chorus (invented melody):
A trial of music for the chorus and singing of a portion of the song (invented melody):
Sketch and song of Eva Cassidy
19 August 2017
I was listening to this beautiful soul’s songs and had an urge to connect with her in a deeper way so made a sketch of her.
I listened to a number of her songs while I drew and while Autumn leaves was the one I felt she sang with the most fervour, I liked more, for personal reasons, her interpretation of Ain’t no sunshine. The version I had always favoured was Bill Withers but I think she does this as splendidly as he did.
I hope you enjoy both the sketch and the song.
Ain’t no sunshine – Eva Cassidy