The Bloom Continues

This piece came from a workshop that I attended at SERFA at Black Mountain NC last week. The workshop was called The Heart of the Matter: Creating Emotional Impact and Songwriting. The presenter was singer-songwriter Jess Klein. At first Jess had us all share a song that had moved us in an emotional way. Many of us discussed a meal that we had recently enjoyed too. With these thoughts in mind, she asked us to do a free writing exercise for 10 minutes, and these are the words that I wrote down. Maybe this is a seed to an upcoming song? Maybe this is all this will be. Maybe this is enough. I should add that I got very misty when Jess played her song, In It For the Love during her showcase. Check that one out. Thank you Jess Klein. Thank you SERFA

The Bloom Continues 

Say the wrong thing 

sing it and play it every day 

write that book and leave it opened 

open for the others 

for the closed minded

For the closed doors

For the shut ins

For the left outs

Sing it out

Leave everything to chance

Take and make change

Your mind is off on the right track

Tracks of tears

Tears of clowns with smeared make up

Sit down and have a good meal

Chew slow so you know the taste

Chew slow so you hear the voices

Of those close

Sitting at that table on a Black Mountain

Energized by the youth of it all

Mixing young Christians with liberal folkies 

Pete Seeger’s banjo is ringing in these mountains

The sustain is traveling through to the next generation

Where have all the flowers gone? 

Well, I found them here and here and here

Just try to block them out of your mind

A blink won’t do it

Nor shut eyes or white noise

The bloom continues

The bloom continues

Pushing up daisies? 

OK 

Be a dead or lazy