Archive for the ‘Others’ Category

1986-03-31

Monday, March 31st, 1986
            I'm going deeper, deeper ...
            Becoming immersed in this newness of Us.
            Each new layer we explore brings us closer,
                 intensifies the tune.
            We reach each other
            in so many ways, on so many levels.
            We meet on mental bridges that span experience
            And share inquires of life and living
            We meet in play and laughter
            that deepens our joy.
            And we meet in passions soft and wild
                 each new embrace building both
                 hunger and pleasure.
                                    Joan
                                    3/31 - 4/1/86

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1986-06-??

Sunday, June 1st, 1986
Sometimes the senses are so keen
   in the places that we meet;
Your eyes open to me and I feel
   mine open to you,
   and as I look I pour love
   from my eyes,
   and I see it shining in yours,
And there is something soft here,
   yet something so sharp.
And why is it that when we talk
   in ways that bare our hearts,
   reveal our feelings
Your voice takes on new resonance;
   because I hear your soul speak?
And entwined together with the
   daylight sifting through drapes,
The skin is so alive;
all warm and soft and firm and cool;
   living, breathing, feeling skin
There may be little spots of
   reservations
But then you show me patience,
   honesty and understanding
And I treasure you all the more.
I wonder what we've been
   for each other through the ages?
When you nip and suck my breasts
   I feel so comfortable
   something so familiar and timeless
It's very peaceful and I wonder
perhaps sometime you were my
   child.
I imagine a child that consoled
   me and made my life happy.
Did I treat you well?  Is that
   why you are helping me now?
I fell you're helping me remember,
   grow and push to risk.
               Joan
               aproximately June 1986

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

The Great Correction

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

down on the corner of ruin and grace
I’m growin weary of the human race
hold my lamp up in everyone’s face
lookin for an honest man

everyone tied to the turnin wheel
everyone hidin from the things they feel
well the truth’s so hard it just don’t seem real
the shadow across this land

people round here don’t know what it means
to suffer at the hands of our american dreams
they turn their backs on the grisly scenes
traced to the privileged sons

they got their god they got their guns
got their armies and the chosen ones
but we’ll all be burnin in the same big sun
when the great correction comes

down through the ages lovers of the mystery
been sayin people let your love light shine
poets and sages all throughout history
say the light burns brightest in the darkest times

it’s the bitter end we’ve come down to
the eye of the needle that we gotta get through
but the end could be the start of something new
when the great correction comes

down through the ages down to the wire runnin out of time
still got hope in this heart of mine
but the future waits on the horizon line
for our daughters and our sons

I don’t know where this train’s bound
whole lotta people tryin to turn it around
gonna shout til the walls come tumblin down
and the great correction comes

don’t let me down
when the great correction comes

-Eliza Gilkyson

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From her 2008 album, Beautiful World.
and a hat tip to Michael Tobias at Only In It For The Gold

— Copyright 2008 by Eliza Gilkyson —