Vynce

Written for two Dear Friends, of their wedding. It was a fantastic honor as well as an amazing pleasure to marry these two fine people. To each other. Soon I hope to link to some photos of the wedding here.

My political beliefs were far too complex to write into a sonnet, even if I played with the meter (which I did). But one of my fundamental beliefs, which applies to politics, is that sometimes life serves you lemons, and you have to just cope with that. But if you ordered the lemonade, it ought to be because wanted it.

There has been for quite some time in our group of friends a tendency to refer to love in terms of a cat. A love that rests comfortably on the back of your armchair may or may not be the same love that scratches the window hoping for dinner. I have merely collected a few of them and set them here to rhyme & meter. The alternate lyric for the second to last line is actually the original.

a poem vaguely in the style of e e cummings, and also about the nature of poetry and life.

I asked them to. They did. What more can be said?

It ends as it began; Life is not a fairy tale. Those who are in love fall out; those who hurt will heal. The ephemerality of emotion is one of the scariest things about being a person, to me. Still looking for a decent title for this. Hit Me

Simon

"It is certainly worth noting that, like so many of the songs I've written, Granted was co-written by Mark Selene inasmuch as he wrote the music and editted the lyrics a bit, sometimes consciously, sometimes letting a natural course of singing them a hundred times be the final arbiter. Without his help, they'd all just be poems with weird meters.

"Also of note in this song is the fact that (a) it's from October of 1993 or 4, and (b) it's true."

A moldin' oldie. Simon never has managed to get the bridge worked into it well, but he doesn't seem much to mind. "It's long enough it ought to just be a song in it's own right," he says. "And this one is long enough, as well. Especially if we medley it (as it keeps seeming we might)."

"A math geek friend of mine who had been hurt too many times by love and loss was beginning to think he would never feel again. He was an even number, but he seemed odd to me." Time and the tide wait for no man, but this song was finally re-recorded after years of us listening to a hissy old demo version.

Another one with music by Mark Selene. "One of our most requested tunes, in fact. One of the most recent I've written displaying one of my early faults -- I could never decide on an ending line, so the last couplet often becomes 4 lines, 3 of which very similar, with only slight changes. Sometimes it works, though."

"This song is reported to have music that sounds halfway between Gorilla You're a Desperado (Warren Zevon) and Caught a Lite Sneeze (Tori Amos). On the other hand, Mark says the meter looks messed up to him, so i hope i can write the music myself this time.

"Oh, and on the advice of counsel, i'm told two other things are worth noting about this song: (a) i wrote it when i should have been working, and (b) it ISN'T true."

"I don't recall the exact circumstances behind this song. I think I was still living with a couple that I was no longer seeing, and they were having private angst sessions without me. Whatever the cause, the effect was obvious. This one speaks for itself." Simon has been working on the music to this one for years. He does actually keep getting closer, though.

"Sitting around one evening with Monroe Edwards, Sanity Faerie, and D`Archangel, I started getting caught up in whatever the Doctor of Doctrine was doing on the guitar. Pretty soon I thought about Denny's and let this roll off the trip of my tongue. When it rolled to a halt, I picked up some pieces and made a coherent hole of it all." Trust me -- it was rough as Microsoft code the first time he sang it.