HAIKU: MUSIC IN YOUR HEART

By Charles Robert Lindholm

MUSIC IS HIDING

Slipped Discs

A new record shop for Shoreham
hip hip hip hooray!
Not had a dedicated one right here
since the Atomic days
'Slipped Discs' right on the High Street
Vinyl heaven, I'll be there
to play on my new turntable
for pleasure and to share

Rediscovery

Rediscovery true. That's just what it is
as I listen once more to the joy
I have found in music all of my life
ever since I was a young boy
Enabled of course by extravagance
purchased, plugged in and turned loud
But the joy I am finding now once again
is sufficient to do my heart proud

Christmas day music

Christmas day music, boiler room classics
rhythm into the night
The sound so cathartic
Healing me there
Loud and uplifting and bright

Music remains (Jemaiku)

Today the vibes will ring true
for my music month
Tigercub to kick things off
there for the dancing
and for appeasing the passion
music has for me

Life’s gift

Love is life's gift 
like a favourite song
Goosebumps and spine tingles 
as you both sing along
And as soulmates together
the music is sweet
as the lyrics you sing
 make your life complete

Floating my boat

Discovered a track that floated my boat
in every conceivable way
sent shivers and goose bumps, you know the kind
melted me good yesterday
And since then I've played it several times
loud - as it brings me a thrill
for discovering music that one's never heard
will always do that to fulfil.
It's a 'je ne sais quoi' kind of thing in my life
been there 'long as I can recall
Music, the constant, my exuberance of joy
my swansong, my one and my all

Starfleet 40

Starfleet forty years ago sent tingles down the spine
'Bluesbreaker' in particular on vinyl which was mine
And here four decades later in twenty twenty-three
it's re-release still does the same for an much older me

With Music…

The Atomic kick-line still melts me
so I'm a quivering wreck
music's never ceased in that 
with shivers down the neck
Sometimes I will free admit
tears flow from just a song
that I have heard and love  
and which to it I'll hum along
For once as late Bob Marley said
with music, here's the thing
when it hits no pain is ever felt
for the pleasure it will bring

When I’m 64 (Born to the sun VII)

So here in twenty-three it is
many years from now
past-tense as now to sixty-four
I've reached the age somehow
And so today I'll sing the lines
as this is where I am
for now as I am sixty-four
it's just because I can

The shifting sea

At the ebb of a tide I'll slink to the shore
and though nought to hide I'll be back for more
for this is my movement and what I am for
as I am the shifting sea

(more) Music

7 of 12 in the ‘My very best’ series

Lurking fog and drizzle falling
the sea a greyish green
Waves like monstrous ogres rising 
tossed by winds unseen

Alone on dampened shingle
taste of salt upon my lips
Braced to ocean’s vigour
gazing out to windward ships

I am the only audience
for this winter serenade
A symphony composed for one
perfect and uniquely made

The getupgo

Sometimes a little whimsy
hankers after mixtape years
when a cassette tape and a pencil
and some tunes for joy and tears
were all I sometimes needed
to drive the blues away
ninety minutes of recording
on a dull and rainy day

Music From a Pale Mind

Joint Poetry by Venkataraman L.N. and Joseph Kurian

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For an ear (reprise)

Concluding the Jemverse series ‘Music II’ [10 of 10]

I am music and pleasure
for those with an ear
Hours of contentment
for freedom and cheer

The Elderflower song (reprise)

9 of 10 in the Jemverse series ‘Music II’

Heavy scent floating in the air
with sunshine after the rain
The music echoes with a sweet
harmonious refrain
Daisy-like the clusters sing
the Elderflower’s song
and breathing deep the fragrance
I hum and sing along

Seagulls, the sea and a song (reprise #2)

8 of 10 in the Jemverse series ‘Music II’

Alone on the shingle
Salt in my mouth
Braced against wind
Looking to South
Out there in the green
Waves rise and fall
As I listen again
To familiar call
A song just for me
The swoop and the cry
The sea and its music
As seagulls fly by

Early hours radio (reprise)

7 of 10 in the Jemverse series ‘Music II’

Radio in the early hours
heard whilst half asleep
Subliminal soft whispers
just enough to keep
Songs that come the daybreak
are still inside my head
So I’ll look them up on Youtube
and watch the video instead

Rhythm II (reprise)

6 of 10 in the Jemverse series ‘Music II’

As the music fades
with the rhythm of my drum
I am still dancing

Dancing to life (reprise)

5 of 10 in the ‘Music II’ series from Jemverse

I danced on a quay at Emsworth
playing a really big drum
The crowds from the town all following us
and everyone having fun

I danced with Pride in Brighton
‘neath a rainbow coloured flag
The crowds of people partying
in the sun made me feel glad

Bringing Happiness (reprise)

4 of 10 in the ‘Music II’ series from Jemverse

Listening to music, anything will mostly do
But my spine will always tingle with some solid 12-bar blues

Lots of things bring happiness, this is just for starters
And mostly not a day goes by without finding what I'm after

Tipple (reprise)

3 of 10 in the ‘Music II’ series from Jemverse

In these fragile days of Autumn
When I am flustered by strong gales
There’s something to look forward to
The partaking of fine ales

A tipple of an evening
When the weather is like this
Gives a little taste of summer
With its happiness and bliss

Constant (reprise)

2 of 10 in the ‘Music II’ series from Jemverse

Music knows no boundaries
It cares not how I feel
It has but one sole purpose
To cure all and to heal.

It will lift me and console me
It will always be a friend
It will surprise me and amaze me
For its wisdom knows no end.

Lifting (reprise)

1 of 10 in the ‘Music II’ series from Jemverse

Like a strong hand to lift my soul
Music comes again
And as my rock begins to roll
Sunshine comes to play

Like a fishing net to catch my blues
Music drains away
All the cobwebs which have gathered
In the corridors of grey

Vinyl Revival

Who'd have thought it in the eighties
when vinyl was slipping
that we'd see all the usurpers fade
to crown again the king

Compact cassettes and eight-track
DAT, mini-disc, CD
all claimed to be the next best thing
to set the vinyl free

Rolling days

Sixty five thousand people gathered
and we were in the crowd
in London's Hyde Park in July
to hear the Stones play loud
A bucket list ticked off right there
sixty years of Rolling Stones
and Sal and I were part of that
before we headed home
Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and 'Keef'
all there for the hotspots
whilst all the crowd with one accord
raised hands for Charlie Watts

#67 POETRY =

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Poetry =

Eurovision 22

Watching Eurovision Twenty Two
aghast with whoops and cheers
we watched as UK on the boards
got its first points in years
Every time a twelve was called
to UK, loud we hailed
for this history in the making
that our 'spaceman' had regaled
Yet, saying that, the public vote
to place the winning sound
was absolutely justified
when Ukraine's turn came round