#internal rhymes

[marx-of-tzara]

Jon Rolfe Leach ‘Obnoxious pleasures of the descendants continued until oblivion’ Mixed media on canvas. 20x16in.

[brudberg1]

Easeled lust. Easeled well, you’re my canvas, girl, you’re chiaroscuro, swirls of umbra whiffs of floribunda, you’re my light…

[nextyearswords]

Lucky at Cards

The Chariot and two Royal Wands;

I read my fortune in the spread -

Fortune helps the brave!, it said.

I held a winning hand.

In the shuffle, The Lovers fell out twice.

I lost a hand to hold.

You cannot take gold with you to the grave.

I threw the runic dice. Fehu! A source of discord amongst kinsmen.

Algiz for caution. Perthro and Mannaz, merkstave.

[astheshipsinks]

if all roads lead to Rome why am i always stuck round dead end homes and always stoned seeing monochrome tones in every pair of eyes that meet my own why do i take two pills daily to make my reality bend to the wills of spending and writing checks so i can pay off bills i checked off months ago or was it days ago? it might have been yesterday though i've been festering in the fright that i never paid them off and the dollar signs i thought i'd find hopped out of my mind in the ides of march and marched to the sides of every arch enemy i spent years thinking were really friends to me i figure roads really configure barely a fraction of what must be a lack of backbone and not just a quick way home

[americansongwriter]

Measure for Measure: To Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Music is a language.”

“Wow!” I used to think, “Great! Now show me the dictionary so I can stop aimlessly fishing for notes and know what the hell I’m saying.”

Well, slowly, painfully over the years, I learned my lesson. Iknowwhere they’re headed next – down the primrose path of music theory. And I know what’s waiting there: a dead end.

Finally, after a lifetime of waiting, I decided to write my own dictionary of musical meaning. And what I discovered is that you have to write your own. That’s what all the readers of this column have been doing since March 2012: listening to hit songs from multiple angles, soaking up the significance of rhythm, harmony, phrase arcs, interval color, scale tone moods, and more.

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