A professional drummer/percussionist and educator, Dave has collaborated on many songs that later led him to write his own lyrics. Most of his poems in this book were, in fact, initially written as song lyrics, so the presence of repeated choruses is ruled out. Actually, it was Dave who first sparked the idea for the Brummets to follow the path they are on today: he decided to take a writing course to learn what he could do with his short stories that he has collected over the years. Most of those stories have remained unpublished to this day due to other projects taking precedence, but Dave plans to publish a few in the near future. His poem “UFO Dream” is the subject of one of his upcoming novels that he has been working on.

Please join us as we share 2 poems taken from collaborative work with his wife: rhythm and rhyme

groove – By D Brummet

author’s note: My thesis on the magic of the power of music. How it keeps us young and takes us away from the sadness of everyday life. I think it’s the element that differentiates people who play music from those who don’t. We have the ability to sit in that sandbox and play without worrying about what’s going on around us at the time.

As children we play, on earth we get off

Oblivious to everything that happens around him.

Then we grow up and we seem to lose

That ability to turn off the blues of the world.

We tend to get caught up in everyday complaints.

Without any way out to get some relief.

It seems that making music is like being a child again.

Nothing else matters, just you and your friends.

When we go to play we can easily forget

All the stressful things that worry us all.

However, if we forget to stop and play

We have lost the power of the way of the child

In Grooveyard – Sitting in the sandbox

Play in the park – Be with your friends and

Go to the Grooveyard – You don’t have to work hard

But to disarm – You’ve got to have heart while you’re

in the grooveyard

You may be sick and feel depressed.

Things in your world are changing you,

But music has charms to calm that beast

Usually it works, you have to at least try it.

We’ve tried drinks and pipes to get things buzzing.

But nothing has the kick that making music has.

As musicians we play, and when we come down

There is no stopping us, we are painting the town.

We will not cede power at all costs.

Of that childish ability that is so easily lost.

That way of overcoming everyday grievances.

Because we still have the way out to get some relief.

There is no explanation of the feeling we have

When it’s all over at the end of a set.

Shocked by the discharge of emotions

On a canvas of musically inspired devotions.

Humor flows and pranksters attack

While we wait and discuss when we can return.

wings in a breeze – by L. Brummet

author’s note:* This powerfully emotional piece was written in moments of a strange dream I had in March 2011; only fragments of dream memories remained as I wrote this in an attempt to capture the remaining strands on the paper. Mom used to use the phrase “build your castle in the sky,” which means to always dream and hope.

I dream of feathers;

Ruffled and ripped

by the force of the wind,

…Sounds like clothes on a line,

Swept by a cool breeze.

I am alive…

And I regret a life

Of bitter resentment,

The terrible need for approval

Now faded with his death,

Leave this burdened mind

by thoughts of sacrifice

and loss

A regret from that childhood

I dared to force to support

As circumstances struck,

And it hit and hit again.

Taking bits and pieces of your joy

His confidence… his strength.

And with his sour look of life

I grew up

in a woman…

– And her friend.

no longer fight against the wind

To stay afloat and fly

To that special castle in the sky

Today it flies without bruised wings,

No battered body to get in the way.

While I,

Now in the middle of life,

I, who never knew wings,

A couple have sprouted.

So small, so uncomfortable…

Will they let me fly someday?

And test my own flight with the wind?

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