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May 2020 · 165
Morning
Zane Safrit May 2020
Morning. Beautiful morning.
A shimmering, lacy thing
Bringing Hints and promises
Enticements and gifts
All for the glory of God
Or the vanity of man, woman and child
Some pleasure too,
A bit of Happiness
found in a smile or giggle
A laugh, a song, a dance step

Look up, look up,
The cloud passes by
And oh what joy
its shelter from the sun
And yet and yet
the sun will not be denied

The perfume of pastries
Lurking, waiting
Coffee aroma
Raising its hand
like grade school child
with the right answer
demanding to be recognized

Coffee it is
Coffee it shall be
For how better to see the world
than after a first cup in this early, glorious, morning

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Sitting on a park bench... drinking in the sights and sounds of a beautiful morning.
Apr 2020 · 103
Where'd You Go?
Zane Safrit Apr 2020
You said that you loved me
Then where did you  go?
I'm sitting here wondering
Just how would I know.

We loved and we laughed
And we both wanted more
I finished my shower.
While you walked out the door

I paid all your bills
And climbed all your hills
So baby won't you tell me
What I did so **** wrong

Maybe that's the real problem
But it wasn't for me.
Maybe all you really wanted
Was just to be free.

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
The rhythm of this song came from John Prine's "Paradise." Stay safe, stay strong, keep living with fire and passion... in closed quarters for now.
Aug 2019 · 136
Rural Blues
Zane Safrit Aug 2019
Crystal **** and Mountain Dew
You got me and I got you
Whoa boy
Whoa girl

Sitting around
Nothing to do
Who needs glue
When I got you
Whoa boy
Whoa girl

You wear jammies
I wear jeans
When we go shopping
at our Hy-Vee
Whoa boy
Whoa girl

We had our jobs
Health insurance, too
Now they’re gone
What do you do?
Whoa
Whoa

3 bars closed,
We’re down to one
But that’s okay
Cause I got you
Whoa boy
Whoa girl

Winter’s coming
It’s getting dark
Propane’s empty
The car won’t start
Whoa boy
Whoa girl

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Rough, very rough draft. Life in rural, midwestern areas is rough, very rough. Jobs are gone, communities dying, hospitals closing... Corporate Ag ruins the air and water and lives of all it touches. Anyway...
Jul 2019 · 219
Mr. Tony Said
Zane Safrit Jul 2019
"You’re never too old
To dream," Mr Tony said
And a tear ran down his cheek
Truth is known in many ways
None truer than a shed tear
For all to see.

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2019 · 137
The Bus Ride Home
Zane Safrit Jul 2019
Sitting in the back of the bus
Wondering what it is
All of the fuss
Sit down, be quiet
Let the man drive
We're all gonna get there
Let's hope we're alive

The windows are *****
Should I wipe them clean
Sideshows and wildlife
I'm told it's quite the scene

I close my eyes
It's a long ride
I'm gonna reach home
One stop or the next.
One day or the the next.

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Yeah, there's a kernel of something good in here. I need to revisit it if I want to find it.
May 2019 · 138
Must Be Love
Zane Safrit May 2019
It must be love
They say it must be
I say we’re two ships
passing in the night
blinking lights and sounding horns

Circling each other
as we search for safe harbor
Not to be found
We’ll sail the stormy seas

Rest and renew on the calm ones
Rolling over on our bellies
Like Whales and I’m mixing metaphors
Cause it must be love

My brain, fevered rushes
explosions of giddy laughing
in all the wrong places
like checkout lines
or stuck in traffic

Other drivers see a mad man
I see ‘em reach for a phone,
checking their door locks
I laugh louder, they race away

It must be love, I tell ya
Now you’re laughing
Laying in the sun, no need
to blink lights or sound horns

I’m beside you, you’re beside me
Foghorn leghorn I say, I say
You laugh, I laugh
Must be love.

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
I was listening to Rickie Lee Jones. She has a great song titled "Must be Love." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgAv_AH2tA
Apr 2019 · 145
Love Hides in Funny Places
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
Love lurks in the shadows, a B&E pro,
watching for an open window, an unlatched screen door,
on the not yet hardened heart.
If we’re not careful
It sneaks in through a sly glance
A smile, a nod, a giggle, a laugh
Sometimes it hides like trojan horse in the inane argument
the one that won’t stop, we won’t stop.
it keeps churning back and forth, the everready bunny,
Until we can’t breathe, have nothing left to say
except for what we want to say.

It’s a comedian, hiding in punchlines like
a mowed yard and the trash cans waiting at the curb,
Tax filings and balanced household budgets,
a clean sink
and a car tuned up, gassed up and
ready for the morning dash.

Love announces itself in a shout
a why the hell’d you do that, shout
Love’s a twisted trickster,
hiding in puke
Cold towels on a sweaty forehead
Then the knitted cap
Keeping that cold head warm


Love gets all shy when things get noisy,
The kid who won’t make eye contact
So sit tight, sit quiet and listen
It’s hard
Try it sometime
See what you think
Let me know.

Love’s never found in an open cellphone
Swiping, swiping, no.
Maybe a text, maybe,
But not for long.

Love’s demanding, impatient
Pleeeze don’t give me that
Let ‘em go and if they return
Blah-blah *******
Absence makes the heart shrivel

Love dies in loneliness
Loneliness is to love
Like water is to The Evil Queen in Wizard of Oz
A few drops and it starts to die.

When you find love,
Feed it, feed it, feed it
Let it rest and breathe
Keep it safe,
And never let it go,
Never make it want to hide.  



Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
I started reading Charles Bukowski. With that inspiration I started writing this poem a few days ago. But I'm not Charles, and allowing time for this poem to sit a little, listening to what worked and what felt right, here it is. Hope you enjoy.
Apr 2019 · 132
Give Me Your Reason
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
Give me a reason
To believe
Something to hold close
Just for me

Give me your reason
All your own
That I can carry
Make us new

I need so little
You’ve so much
If you only knew
If you only knew

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
The more I wrote this the more Tracy Chapman's great song, Give Me a Reason, kept raising its head. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6hQ9HSKlIE
Apr 2019 · 103
Things Are Changing
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
Things are changing
Can you hang on
Things are changing
Bang a gong

Write it on my headstone
Things were changing
And he held on
Bang a gong

Ain’t the first
Won’t be the last
Things are changing
They can kiss my ***

Write it on my headstone
Write it in the sky
Things are changing
I’m holding on

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
The poem came from a conversation I had this week with a dear friend of mine. She'd texted me that line: 'things are changing.' As I wrote it, this tune from Otis Redding whispered to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhL0ioST_U
Apr 2019 · 224
Can't Get Enough
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
"My darlin’, I
Can’t get enough of your love
Babe
I know I know I know."

"Can’t get enough of your love
"Babe."
I sang Barry White to you
But now it seems
we’re really through

We danced together
Ups and downs
Hand in hand but now you’re gone
Still I sing this same ol’ song
"My darlin’ I
"Can’t get enough of your love
"Babe."

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Barry White. Now that you've finished reading this little ditty, listen to the man himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw
Apr 2019 · 108
Glittering Arrays
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
Would I, could I, should I
Seems like I should
But then again, maybe I shouldn’t
Time and tide, here I sit

If she looks good, what’m I missing
And if she don’t, maybe maybe what
A squint, a stare, a sideways glance
But first a search on Google or LinkedIn

To call or not, to speak or not
No, now it’s to swipe, left or right is how
So we flicker past each other
Glittering arrays of possibilities

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
I'm a little 'long in the tooth' and bald in the head for the dating scene. This poem started with the first line, then the first stanza and then I laughed and cranked out the rest. That's usually how I write these poems here. A word, a line, a riff... see how far I can run with it, have fun with it. Then let it go and see where it runs with me, has fun with me.
Apr 2019 · 159
Spring Is the Best Season
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
"Spring is the best season."
We said it every year.
A splash of green,
A whiff of life.

"Spring is the best season."
I said it today,
I’ll say it tomorrow.
And forever, mi amor.


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Apr 2019 · 153
Hoodwinked
Zane Safrit Apr 2019
I’m Hoodwinked,
How’d you do,
Your bad voodoo?
Feels so good

You stole my heart
No time to think
My eyes just stared
I couldn’t blink

Now I sit
All alone
Talk’n to you
On the phone

I hear his voice
Across the room
Doing that
Lowers the boom

I’m Hoodwinked,
How’d you do,
Your bad voodoo?
Felt so good

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Merriam-Webster's Daily Word today is Hoodwinked. Kinda funny, to have that word on April Fool's Day. Anyway, I thought it'd be a nice exercise to write a poem around that word. Here it is.
Mar 2019 · 1.3k
Who's Crying Now?
Zane Safrit Mar 2019
The CAFO trucks roll past
Smelling of hog **** and ***
Their passengers squeal maga,
We are not afraid, they cry
Our **** is in your water
You breathe our **** all day long
Who’s crying now?
Maga, they cry. Hahaha

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Mar 2019 · 348
Asana Girl
Zane Safrit Mar 2019
I wanna live
With the asana girl
We could be happy
Drinking our ghee
With my asana girl

She speaks in their slogans
I nod and say yes
We roll on our mats and
Breathe through our noses
My asana girl

Twelve yogis humming
A sitar for show
The raja relaxes
And waits between chants
For his asana girl

I don’t need no money
I’m happy as hell somehow
Karma’s a ***** y’know
You see it’s all a big show
Om... om... om


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
This is a new-age take on Neil Young's 'Cinnamon Girl.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZ6bBeJ488
Mar 2019 · 452
Pass the salt
Zane Safrit Mar 2019
Dinners are quiet, we sometimes speak
In our heads, 2 MMA fighters circling
Looking for a knockout punch
Pass the salt, please

Laughter’s a runaway
Been missing for a year or two
Never filed a report
Needs pepper, doncha think?

We shadow box through the house
Oops excuse me, that was close
Then retire to our corners
Facebook and Instagram, y’know


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Feb 2019 · 582
Someday Soon
Zane Safrit Feb 2019
There is a house in
Southeast iowa
It sits all empty
Waiting for us there

Big porch, a bigger yard
Golden fields, open skies
A moon so full
I’ve watched and sighed

Star light, the stars bright
They shine for us tonight.
Some day someday soon
We will see them all.


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
I got to humming Neil Young's 'Helpless.' Neil's a bit more eloquent...
Feb 2019 · 137
Filed Away
Zane Safrit Feb 2019
Senesence and not
pubescence is where
We’ll end up someday
raddled and addled

Our Secrets tattled
by strangers who know
Nothing, and yet speak
as experts on us

Our crypts will be files
the size of a gig,
Sold  on a thumbdrive
for the highest price


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 2019 · 611
Loan Me a Dime
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
Loan me a dime, he sang
A dime is all he asked
Is that too much
To bother you

Worn hat, gnarled hands
I need a dime
He said, that’s all
Loan me a dime

Back tomorrow
I repay you
If you loan me
a dime, he said


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
One of my current favorite tunes is Boz Scaggs and Duane Allman's cover of Loan Me a Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y. I was listening to it the other night and the tune stuck around for a few days.
Jan 2019 · 397
He Might Smile at Us
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
Raddled, addled
oh my goodness
some dimes in the
jukebox baby

A substantive
No gargantuan
Evening awaits us
Only question

Do we grab it
Race like wildfire
Down our road
Never look back

If the wherewithal
lies within us
God’ll forgive us
Might even smile at us


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
The four words today are: Raddled, Substantive, Gargantuan, Wherewithal.
Jan 2019 · 413
Riding the Imbroglio
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
Painful misunderstandings
complicated altercations
Confused mashup
of regrets and hope

They cumulate, proliferate
who adjudicates
We all step up
For another ride


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
M-W's Word of the Day for today and Jan 22-24 were Adjudicate, Proliferate, Cumulate, Imbroglio
Jan 2019 · 104
Who Knows?
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
It must be nice
to have and to hold
And be so bold
to dream us twice

It must be nice
to see us tomorrow
As we see us today
maybe better, who knows

It must be nice
us tomorrow
Like us today
who knows they say.

Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 2019 · 207
Player One's Down
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
Charisma, Sharisma
I sleuthed you out
on our first day
in our first class

Doldrums, humdrums
We bored you everyday
Summertime, Classtime
We all bought your charm

Until you made it
Baked on the beach
Fried up, *******
S’how you liked it

Your biopic's
A myopic
Red light, green light
play’n all alone

I shoulda known
I coulda known
Player one’s down
Nowhere to be found

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
To stir things up a bit, I decided to challenge myself to write a poem starting with the Daily Word from Merriam-Webster for the last 4 days. You can sign up and get a daily email with one word defined and used in a sentence, all that. The words for the last four days were: Charisma, Sleuth, Foray, Doldrums.
Jan 2019 · 542
I Want to Be a Magician
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
I want to be a magician

How nice it must be,
to have a vanishing act,
to disappear,
at the drop of a hat,
to dazzle and amaze
all of the days,
and sleep at their end
with a smile on your face

I want to be a magician


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 2019 · 462
The Remote Don't Work
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
The remote don’t work,
but my baby can dance,
the remote don’t work,
but she can prance, prance, prance

She slides to the left
Shimmies to the right
Makes me smile
That lasts all night

The remote don’t work,
but my baby can dance,
the remote don’t work,
but she can prance, prance, prance

I’m missing sports center
Netflix too
Having watched a ballgame
since 2002

The remote don’t work,
but my baby can dance,
the remote don’t work,
but she can prance, prance, prance

The remote don’t work
And I don’t care
The remote won’t work
And we don’t care


Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jan 2019 · 123
If You Were Me
Zane Safrit Jan 2019
If you were me
Would you care
Would you smile
All the while

If I were you
Could I laugh
Could I forgive
Say it’s okay

Let’s begin again
You and I and
I as you and
You as I and

See the world as you
See it as me
If you were me
And I were you

If I was god
Would the children die
Would their mothers cry
And their fathers rage
If god was me
Would he forgive you
Draw you to his/my chest
Hold you and breathe

But I am God
And so you are
We’re created in his/her image.

So let’s laugh together
I can forgive
and hold you and
inhale your essence

The children then
can stop dying
their mothers crying
their fathers raging

We can all laugh
and hug each other
and breathe in all
that we are and

All that we could be
Because I am
you and you are
me. God created
us, we see.



Copyright © 2019 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Emotionally, intuitively, yes. But, right now, there's so much attention on what divides us. Unfortunate, but this too shall pass. Right?
Nov 2018 · 129
A Line in Air
Zane Safrit Nov 2018
None of them remember,
None of them care,
To them I’m just
A thin line of air.

A line faded
Was it ever there
Can’t remember
Don't really care

How did we know him
Did we know him
I guess not
He left no impression

A line in air
Is never remembered
Nobody noticed
Nobody cared.

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 2018 · 295
To See What Cannot Be Seen
Zane Safrit Aug 2018
A silver smartphone
Hides on a silver bedspread
Wise is he who knows



Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 2018 · 177
Lies and Flies
Zane Safrit Aug 2018
Dad, what did ya do today?
I killed some flies
In the Propaganda Wars?
I killed some lies

Flies, lies, all depends
One man’s fly, you know the line,
S’another man’s lie
So swat the fly, **** the lie

Which is which you ask?
Hard to say until they’re dead.
S’tricky like that, so
Be careful, take aim, and pray


Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 2018 · 244
Drowning
Zane Safrit Aug 2018
I’m drowning
Hand waving
Chin is up
Passerbys smile

All around
Smiles and laughs
Busy-ness
So very

I’m drowning
It’s okay
This today
Ends this way

Carry on,
This line in
Air is gone
Anyone?


Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Aug 2018 · 308
Not Gonna Make It
Zane Safrit Aug 2018
I’m not making it
I think I’m going to die
I’m not getting out
It’ll happen one day shy

One day shy of the
Job of my dreams that coulda
Matched finding the love
Of my life again, return

Yeah, I’m not gonna
Make it, shake it or wake it
This life already
****** me dry, bit by slow bit

I’m laughing somewhere
In here, behind another
Sour riposte
Letter they send me each day

No one wants you, and
Neither do we but hey we
Wish you luck today
And in your career journey

Tomorrow, today
You are not gonna make it
So just go away
Call it a day, go away.

Ain’t it a **** shame
Sure is but for who, me you
Never was gonna
Make it. Joke's on me'n you.


Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 140
Dime-Store Cashier
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
I was a dime-store
Cashier’n in a bad side of town
Just waitin’ for her
To walk in and take it all.

She waved a big smile
Instead of a forty-five
I said yes ma’am and quickly
Handed her my heart

She offered her hand
I couldn’t really say no
We walked out, grinning
Into the night, into life


Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 137
Cheek to Cheek
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
Hang me out to dry
Done this once or twice
Still you make me sigh
Everything's nice

We met at a gallery,
A bar, who knows
All this goes to show
I'm hanging, I'm waiting

You tell me not to call
Then you're sitting at my bar
Open seat next to you
Favorite drink already poured

Hey baby, you say
Come here often?
We laugh, cheek to cheek
Our glasses clink

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 143
Turn Off The Movie
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
Can someone
Turn the movie off
Memories
They just keep playing

Reruns and repeats
Regrets but
Never the laughter
Never them

Turn the movie off
Tonight and
Let me alone so
I can rest.

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 153
What If
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
What if

What if me
what if you
What if we
Knew how to

turn hate into love,
fear into trust
then open our hearts
see all of us

What if we
smiled at each other
forgave and forgot
trusted one ‘nuther

Simple things
we make them so hard
But who am I
Some silly bard

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
"Bard" is a term not in my daily vocabulary. But I thought I'd try rhyming a bit, see how that felt.
Jul 2018 · 317
God, He Don't Know Me
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
I saw Him on the street
He walked right on by
I waved and I danced
I even said “hi.”

I went to His House
I knocked on His door
Jesus Himself
Said "There’s room for no more."

God, He don’t know me
And if He does
He acts mighty strange

I call him at night
Sometimes daytime too
He asks for my name
Says, who, who are you.

God, he don’t know me
And if he does
He acts mighty strange
God, he don’t know me

Jesus, please help me
Y’Dad’s forgotten my name
He laughed and He laughed
And He said "Ain’t that a shame"

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 254
Meringue
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
To dance, to smile
Perchance to dream
a little dream
of you, of me

the recipe stays
a mystery
for why and when
these dreams appear

staying, lingering
firming up
like a meringue
to satisfy


Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 154
Love's Ghost Army
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
Like soldiers in a ghost army
Broken hearts rise
From the ashes of their jobs
Seeking each other, hoping

For another Sat’dy night
And it’s alright,
For another chance, another
dance, a smile, a kiss

And find their partner
for the night, for tomorrow.
And never again lie alone
Hoping, huddling, praying.

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jul 2018 · 128
Starbursts Trailing
Zane Safrit Jul 2018
Watched you walk
Down the aisle last night
Shiny, bright and white
Starbursts trailing

Turned away, no one saw
Wiped on a smile
Clapped and laughed
At the right times

Faded out the door
Before the last 'I do'
No one saw me
No one needed to

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Jun 2018 · 184
To-Do List
Zane Safrit Jun 2018
Wash the dishes
Wipe the sink clean
Mop the bathroom floor
Wipe the shower stall dry

Drag the recycle bin to the curb
(**** ‘em off) Throw in a bag of trash
Tape the note on the laptop bag
Watch a movie

Put on clean underwear
Cover the bed in plastic
Open the windows
Keep the screens closed

Swallow the whole bottle
Drink the whole bottle
Fall asleep
Die

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
This is not a current to-do list. It's one I started awhile back, a long while back and can now look back at that time with a better perspective and not feel the depth of despair and pain and disconnection. To these better days, long may they ride.
Jun 2018 · 200
Homestate Song
Zane Safrit Jun 2018
I was born in Salisbury,
Salisbury,
I was born in Salisbury
And no one knows me there.

There’s no money in Spencer,
Spencer
There’s no money in Spencer
Everyone thinks that’s fair.

Granite Quarry is still there,
still there.
Granite Quarry is still there,
And so’s my fam’ly, too.

There’s strangers now in Charlotte,
Charlotte,
There’s strangers now in Charlotte
And they don’t even care.

Copyright © 2018 - Zane Safrit - All rights reserved.
Friday night I listened to the Jefferson County Green Band cover Greg Brown's The Fairfield Song. Driving home today, I started rhyming in my head. Here's the result. It's not as good as Greg Brown, Greg Brown. It's not as Good as Greg Brown, but that's okay too.
May 2018 · 305
Your Smile is Crack
Zane Safrit May 2018
You just happened to smile
For you, no big deal
For me, the true sun shone
deep inside me, warm

Another day, maybe two
You did it again
Confirming my theory
Smile equals Life Inside Me

Yeah, Science is Dope
Your smile is crack and I am
Addicted to it
And there’s no rehab for me

Copyright © 2018 - Zane Safrit - All rights reserved
May 2018 · 1.1k
This Valentine's Day
Zane Safrit May 2018
Death metal
This Valentines Day
Mass shootings and
Congressmen pray

This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day

Trump says he’ll pray
This Valentines Day
Does he know the words
Can he read them?

This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day

Way-Out Willie
On the stage now
Hand jiving us
This Valentines Day

This Valentines Day
This Valentines Day

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
I wrote this on Valentine's Day, sitting at a little club, enjoying the band and the ambiance. Forgot about it until last week.
May 2018 · 175
If I Could Write Like Pablo
Zane Safrit May 2018
If I could write like Pablo
Stirring the hearts (yes, and the *****)
of goddesses and nymphs, oh
what a life, what a life, I’d live

Tis not my fate, still I laugh
For the barn doors are open
the cows are getting out
I’m late, so late for dinner.

Copyright © 2018 - Zane Safrit - All rights reserved.
No. I have no idea how I made the leap from Pablo Neruda to barn doors and a late arrival for dinner. But even now, I read it and somehow it doesn't seem such a big leap and it makes me laugh. There we go.
May 2018 · 166
Love's Gotta Gotta Happen
Zane Safrit May 2018
Don't you ever
Feel sad, he sings it
She hears him, wants
To give it up

He smiles she smiles
He sings she sings too
Love's gonna happen
Love's gotta happen

Copyright © 2018 by Zane Safrit. All rights reserved.
Hat tip to Sam and Dave "Hold On I'm Coming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREppyQf5uw and the local band playing it the other night.
May 2018 · 326
Hold On
Zane Safrit May 2018
Hold on, hold on
I keep telling
Myself, I say
Se'f you gotta

Hold on, Love is
Coming, Hold on, Love
Is coming, hold
On, just hold on

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May 2018 · 139
I'm Singing Along
Zane Safrit May 2018
Even now I sing our song
Top of the lung, singing along
I wait for your chorus
But you’re not there

It’s just the one of us
No more pair or two of us
It’s just the one of us
I’m singing along

There’s that bar, you danced on top
I laughed and I held your hand
Till the bartender made you stop
Mosh pit, you giggled, waved at the band

It’s just the one of us
No more pair or two of us
It’s just the one of us
I’m singing along

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May 2018 · 222
Forgive Me My Sin
Zane Safrit May 2018
Things are all changing

I don’t know and I don’t really care

Things are all changing

There’s not enough air

Water is sewage and truth is a joke

We had us a life

We were going somewhere

Then one morning or maybe one year

We reached all the way to Happy

Decided to turn back.

The laughs and the giggles,

The hugs and the cuddles

No, we’d rather have tears

Hit the gas pedal and slid off the track

We started to spin, our car rolled on its back.

I opened my eyes and it’s all up in smoke

It’s all up in smoke and I cannot breathe.

Tell me why, tell me how,

Tell me where and tell me when

Please won’t you tell me and forgive me my sin.

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May 2018 · 177
Would You Stay With Me
Zane Safrit May 2018
Would you stay with me
in an online group
If its rules were strong
Would you stay with me

Should our links grow old
Would you update them
With the right address
Should our links grow old

Would you quit and run to another group
Swipe a thousand times past a thousand smiles
Block the fake ones phishing for your real name too
If I stay with you online

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I woke up humming Tanya Tucker's, Field of Stone,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kx4mr7WthY
Apr 2018 · 156
Let it go
Zane Safrit Apr 2018
And did she see me
I couldn't tell
Neither blink nor smile
A head nod, no

Would it have mattered
I don't think so
That dream was shattered
Just let it go

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