The Mighty Bens

I can’t help to cower to the nightly clock

That chimes the hour 

Because I have three! 

And they become of me

Each squeaking their voice o’er the others 

Each trying to vie above a hover 

And I’m deciphering their cover

And their time keep but quite right

They have me at all times of life

Where I’d be, where I might

They hold me in their plight

Of who is me and shall exist

And the promises I made to this

And a pledge of a belonging

I am strong but they know me

As a girl who’s governed by thee

Who’d never asked above it 

And lives by the ole tock and tic  

Plainer and stand to with 

A dominating hand width 

On-point and been the power 

The mighty Bens have the hours 

(C)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

How Did That Go?

I remember not too long ago 
Took my hand, said where do you want to go?
We were young want to, run the age together
Thought the time was on our side forever

(Chorus)
How did that go?
How did that song go? 
We sang it far, we sang it for 
The song had found an end before 
Now how did that go? 

Summer came then fell so far away
All the same when winter came to stay 
I never left to put the dream aside 
You never stayed to make me your bride 

(Chorus)


Father Time then met Mother Nature 
We arrived to find our kind of maker 
And I sighed for that was all to do 
And you cried for what I meant to you 

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
It is done now we hold the grey 
It is fine now I often pray 
Recalling love that summer day 
A fleeting lifetime had flown away 

(Chorus) 
(Repeat and fade out)

(C)2019/2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

I Keep Writing Poems ...

I keep writing poems
You keep placing bombs
I want all my meanings
To be close to love psalms
You want to fry all
Your cooking pot to roost
You want all the bygones
Keep focus on your roast
Your have no deeper thoughts
Than what you have to boost

I’d never felt more shambles
Than some offering of the too
When a witness has to ramble
To make sense of the root
And explain away the silliness
Of grown men for the truth
Who only brags to offer
When none more is to  boot


(C)2020 OWM/ Sperling Lieder, BMI

Now is The Time -- music video from 2006 album

Filmed entirely in Clarksdale, MS

The Storm's Not All That Awaits

The Storm’s not all that awaits

A light will find shine 

Pause of breath beneath waters 

Survive because there are others 

(c)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

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I have started to write poetry again, so will use my blog as a place to share and publish them online.