Welcome to Poems & Other Songs, a curated collection of unique poems and songs that weave tales that resonating with the human heart in all its complexity.
I wrote Let Me Introduce You to The Blues from a place of lived honesty, not theory. To me, the blues isn’t just sadness, it’s awareness. It’s what happens when we stop blaming the world outside and start looking inward. I’m speaking to the part of us that believes a new city, a new relationship, or a new horizon will fix what feels broken inside. I’ve stood there too, staring across the Hudson River and thinking somewhere else might make me whole.
But wherever we go, we carry ourselves with us.
This poem isn’t about judgment. It’s about boundaries, responsibility, and the quiet truth that we can’t rescue each other from our own struggles. The blues is not hopelessness, it’s clarity. It’s the moment illusions fall away and we stop running long enough to face what’s real.
I wrote this as an invitation to sit with the blues, because sometimes that’s where freedom begins.
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Let Me Introduce You to The Blues >> https://shorturl.at/MFKJ0
This poem started out as a poem but just seemed to bluesy to not become a song.
Pocketfull of Mondays captures how a life can unravel in the span of a single week. Monday arrives heavy and repetitive, a symbol of emotional weight and quiet despair. The speaker isn’t just down, he’s stuck, carrying a pocket full of days he doesn’t know how to move past.
Tuesday represents hope, the belief that one more day might fix everything. If he could just get there, he thinks he could turn it all around. But that hope is fragile, and Wednesday shatters it with a sudden breakup driven by impulse and chaos.
By Friday, the poem strips it bare, unanswered phone calls, tears, and the fear of facing another week alone. The return to Tuesday at the end reinforces the cycle of regret and longing, reminding us how often we understand love only after it’s gone and searching for the strength to face another week.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/37qB6BcIuhPf5StoL9WHfp
Pocketfull of Mondays:
There, is a reflective poem about persistence, frustration, and forward motion. I explore the tension between dreams and reality, the refusal to surrender creativity, and the quiet determination to keep moving toward a destination that may never fully be reached.
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In this intimate poetry podcast episode, Watching the World Go By I invite you to slow down and step outside the noise of everyday life. Through gentle imagery and quiet invitation, the poem drifts from mountaintops to coastal highways, offering a shared escape where time loosens its grip and worry fades into the background.
This is a meditation on companionship, imagination, and the simple freedom of going nowhere in particular. Close your eyes, take the ride, and spend a few moments watching the world go by, one breath, one dream, one grain of sand at a time.
Listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nfMRRBQuBpgFiddOyzh9T?si=l6VfrnGwSiW8LLXKAK1CRg
Watching The World Go By
When Christmas arrives, I think the world feels softer and friendlier. Smiles come easier, laughter lingers. This poem & song are for that brief magic, and the wish that the warmth & wonder of Christmas could last every day. #poetry #originalmusic #writingcommunity #writer Carol: shorturl.at/EiPmb
Valentino is a poem that lingers in the quiet places, where the glow of late-night movies softens the room and memory presses close. It’s a portrait of love that doesn’t demand a spotlight, a devotion measured not in grand gestures but in the simple act of staying.
As the silver-screen heroes sweep your breath away, the poem offers something humbler, truer: presence. A promise to return when the glow fades, to love without costume or script.
In the soft echo of “If I were Valentino,” the poem reveals its heart, longing, yes, but also acceptance. A gentle reminder that real love isn’t always cinematic.
Sometimes it’s just two people, side by side in the dark, choosing each other when the credits roll.
Listen to the podcast: Valentino
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Listen to the song Valentino: Valentino
Sometimes I truly love the fall. The colours seem almost unreal, gold, amber, and deep red leaves drifting through the air like tiny brushstrokes. The scent of damp grass, pine trees, and woodsmoke has a way of slowing everything down, inviting you to breathe a little deeper and appreciate the changing season.
But fall also brings a different kind of feeling. As the air grows colder and frost begins to gather in the mornings, I can’t help but feel a quiet uncertainty. There’s something about the shorter days and the hint of snow in the clouds that makes time feel slippery, as if the year is rushing toward its end faster than would like.
So I meet fall with both warmth and hesitation, grateful for its beauty, yet mindful of the way it reminds me that everything changes, ready or not.
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PDF: Old Love
Song: https://shorturl.at/XJkyM
A reflective poem exploring the stories written on our faces, age, experience, joy, pain, and everything in between. This piece invites listeners to look beyond the surface and consider what’s behind every expression. In this episode, I share the poem and dive into the ideas that inspired it, offering thoughts that might resonate with your own experiences.
Get the podcast on Spotify for the spoken word version of the poem, the podcast and the song I see your face or download them here.
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I See Your Face:
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Spoken Word:
A reflective poem exploring the stories written on our faces, age, experience, joy, pain, and everything in between.
The video and the song were written and developed during Covid.
