Feel the rhythm through the rhyme
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 came up with the idea for the Brummets to go down the path they follow today: he decided to take a writing course to learn what he could do with his short stories he’s 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 Most of those stories have remained unpublished to this day due to other projects taking precedence, but Dave plans to publish a few in the near future.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.
Join us as we share 2 poems drawn from the 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 keeps 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 and it seems we lose
That ability to turn off the blues of the world.
We tend to get caught up in complaints every day.
With no outlet 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 child’s path
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 have to have a heart while you are
in the grooveyard
You may be sick and feeling 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 go down
There is no one to stop us, we are painting the town.
We will not cede power at all costs.
Of that childish skill that is so easily lost.
That way of overcoming everyday grievances.
Because we still have the outlet to get some relief.
There’s no explanation for the feeling we get
When everything ends 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 paper. Mom used to use the phrase “build your castle in the sky” which means to always dream and hope.
dream with 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 vanished with his death,
Leave this burdened mind
For sacrificial thoughts
and loss
A regret of 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 hinder it.
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 one day?
And try my own flight with the wind?
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