THIS COMET WILL OUTSHINE THE MOON is lyrics about the night skies above us in these mountains...we can all see so many more stars and the comets and falling stars and they are all bright, bright, bright....

THIS COMET WILL OUTSHINE THE MOON

This comet will outshine the moon
I heard about it just today
We'll see it somewhere there near Mars
This comet will outshine the moon

We are stardust I've been told
Told to smile like stardust
We are children of the stars
We're golden silver stars

This shooting star will  streak the night
Like chalk across a blackboard line
A streak of light and then quite gone
This shooting star will streak the night

We are meteors I guess
Took us to run like meteors
We are falling stars we two
We are golden silver stars

These northern lights outshine the stars
I saw their photos just today
We see them somewhere near the poles
These auroras outshine the stars

We are like those rainbowed lights
Cold and huge against the skies
Flash of Lights that fill our eyes
We are like those northern lights
and We are golden silver stars
We are golden silver stars

MOUNTAIN SINGING is Lyrics speaking to me about the Sounds...very subtle Song...that these Sierra are singing to me....

MOUNTAIN SINGING

Hear it on the wind today
Mountain Singing Song
Did you hear the same Song
Singing for you
Way up here?
Seems I'm always  hearing
Song I never heard before
Seems this newest Song
Is changing all I am....

I get these sounds across
White Pines and
Yellow Pines and smooth
Madrone-  from Trees
Who just have to tell me
They see me: I'm here

Heard it in the snow today
Mountain Singing Song
Did I hear the same Songs
Singing for me
By the sea?
Seems I'm hearing news
I really never heard before
Seems these newer words
Are meaning all I am

I get these words around
The deer and blue-skyed
Jays and mountain cats
Who just have to sing me
A Song that sings: We're here

Heard it in these skies tonight
Mountain Singing Songs
Did you hear and hum along
With us way up here
Beneath these skies?
Seems we're seeing Stars
We truly never saw below
Seems these Mountain Songs
Are singing all we are
Seems this Mountain Singing
Is all we know now....

SIMPLE WINTER DAY is Lyrics about our usual Day here...singing, keeping warm, telling each other stories...getting-done the how and the where and the why of daily life....Winter in the lower Sierra....

SIMPLE WINTER DAY

White Clouds race and roll by
All across and through this winter sky
They bring a sound like distant bells
Like Songs of Spirits flying by - the fire starts up
Burnin' with its warm shadows on the walls
Simple Winter Morning

We think about the Older Times
Sing Songs - tell Stories that we know
We've heard so many loving times -
It don't much matter cuz we know
These Times are soon forgotten
Unless you write them in your Songs
Some Simple Winter Morning

These are Moments of Treasure, yes,
Known only to you and I
For Old Friends and Lovers know
All that there is: of the How and the Where
And the Why

The fire is slowly dying
It's embers glow all crystal gold
We've sung our Last Song softly
We've heard the Stories that we've told
And now we head to Dreamsong
Warm bodies twined against the cold
Simple Winter Night, now
Simple Winter Night

WINGS IN THE SNOW are lyrics about something that happened once and then not ever again...sometimes you get One Time that's got no tomorrow to it....

WINGS IN THE SNOW

Deer grazin' our brush
Give em grain - spoil their wild -
All a'sudden - so Bright -
Saw Wings through the Snow
An' the Eagle came down
All golden and huge Wings
Ablaze in the Settin' Sun
That I do believe that
I cried for the sight
Sweet Wings in the Snow
Of this Night this Night
Sweet Wings in this Snow
On this Night

Deer lifted their heads
Their ears heard the Wing Sound
An'  Turkeys stood still in the Weeds
Eagles are Rare here - just as they
Are everywheres - hardly kin'
See em around
Ain't got no reason to
Think This was special - leastways
Not for me in my yard in this snow
But I do believe I will hear that Fine
Sound of those Wings
In all my Day's Dreams
Everywhere that I go

Sweet Wings in the Snow
Of this Night this Night
Sweet Wings in this Snow
On this Night

Sweet Wings in the Snow
Of this Night this Night
Sweet Wings in this Snow
On this Night

SOLSTICE HONEY is Lyrics inspired by the Solstice...by Honey in my tea...and by Tim Peck's Rainbow!....Merry and Holy and All!!!

SOLSTICE HONEY

Drippin' gold and smellin' sweet
You're my Solstice Honey
Good enough to kiss
Good enough to kiss
Ain't givin' you away
For anybody

You're my Rainbow on
This Winter Day
Through the Snow
Watched Sadness shine away
Red Green and Blue and
Purple Yellow too
My Solstice Honey
This Winter Day

Bein' Warm and bein' Kindly
You're my Solstice Honey
Good enough to Love
Good enough to Love
Ain't givin' you away
For any one thing

You're the Sun arisin' on
This Winter Day
Through the Sleet
Heard some Angles shinin' on
Some Blues and Songs
of Peacetime too
My Solstice Honey
Winter Day

When All These Days are
Full of Solstice Honey
Good enough to Live
Good enough to Live
Ain't gonna' go away
For any Spring

Cuz you're
My Solstice Honey
The best of
Solstice Honey
Gonna' stay by this Fire
Hold you warm
Taste the warm
My Solstice Honey....

CHRISTMAS SIXTY SEVENTH YEAR is a poem about Solstice and how this all feels....

CHRISTMAS SIXTY SEVENTH YEAR

The cold deep in my bones will not be sung
By crossing over this Ice this River Frozen
Solstice means Dark
Creature of Light with No Way to Live
In Frozen In Dark
Christmas Lights this year are not my best
He likes them White I like the Gold
We have White and Frosty
I'm Cold Most of the Time
Longing for Fire that does not
Go out I am occupied by shivers
Ice crackling and icicle-ing all over
The puddle outside is Ice All Ice
Still, you know, This Is Christmas
This Is All Light and Sun To Return
It's all Pagan and Fine an Unkempt
Hair of Angels and Tinsel and Fragile
The Sun to Come to Come Back
This Baby was probably born still
I Care Truly about the Light
The Light is what the word means
Christmas Light and Warmth and
No Dark or Cold anymore until
Next Winter, which will come
After the Sun

DECEMBER SONG is about Song as Thinking...many of us who 'sing', Think in Song....

DECEMBER SONG

All night the Harmony moves on the highs and lows of this altitude
Attitude of Song Endless Song
All One Song never, never ending
Variations on the Themes of life
Babies gasp for Breath in this Song
Those Passing Over do, too
You know
There is Nothing But Music
Everywhere
It is all Music
Voices in Songs
Strings and Hammers and Woods and Skins
Picks and Ivories
Fingers and Hearts
Voice Box opens, closes
Out comes Thought
Full of Song
Hum on the Wind
SongBirds know All The Secrets
Voice, Heart, Ties That Bind
Whole Universals
One Song