The Cult of Pertty

Category: Tailgate Musings (Page 2 of 4)

Random thoughts about the poetry I write, how I write it, and why I write it.

New Endeavor – Same Work Ethic

I christen the name of this photo tweet, “Courage.”
Also, see Dierks Bentley’s Riser, written by Travis Meadows and Steve Moakler

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Sting’s Fields of Gold

Sting’s Fields of Gold has always been a special song for me as it came out right after my Dad died. Then Eva Cassidy covered it about the time my Mom died. It is so melancholic that it takes me back and makes me tear up. Good songs and poetry have that special magic.

I recently took a look at the lyrics again more closely and saw some great Hillbilly Haiku in it. Makes me like it even more now. If that is possible.

I hope Sting won’t mind me re-arranging things a little.

So she took her love
upon the fields of barley
for to gaze awhile

and

Will you stay with me?
among the fields of barley
will you be my love?

and

Many years have passed
we will walk in fields of gold
in the days still left

and

When the west wind moves
upon the fields of barley
you’ll remember me

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Sting is doing a tour with Peter Gabriel called “Rock Paper Scissors” which should be pretty extraordinary.

Got to stop thinking about this song now.

Small Mercies

Weeping willow tree
shady relief for dinner
sweaty gravediggers

Inspired by Tom T. Hall’s Ballad of Forty Dollars.

Here is a good story on how “The Storyteller” found his voice.

No longer in the replication business, Hall penned songs that were as dagger-sharp as Raymond Carver short stories, songs written in an educated-yet-unadorned style that, along with the works of Kris Kristofferson, John Hartford and Mickey Newbury, helped alter and elevate the language of country music.

“… educated-yet-unadorned” and “…alter and elevate the language” — Now there is a goal for Hillbilly Haiku writers.

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