WHEN HARRY SINGS

Deep meaning entraining the feelings

Words to a story it is much more than dreaming.

Hear the calypso sound much more than singing

When Harry sings 

Everyone dancing, swaying their hips

When the music stops, we are left smiling.

The rhythmic claps as feet move to that.

Not separated by race only by time and space

His music has what we need to see.....

When Harry sings

Everyone moving to the rhythm of peace

Much more than a musical dream

A legacy of sound sing before the crowds

Not intimidated by anyone's thoughts.

It is love that defines art.

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

 

DANCE OF KNOWLEDGE

 

Deep inside the mind is a light

We have been searching for all our lives

Inside it has been there all the time

Dance of knowledge

Moves to the song of peace

The tune of justice we all need

Deep inside the mind, there is you, the soul.

Holding to the eternity of many lives

This journey is not a waste of time.

Dance of knowledge

Moves to the rhythm of purity

The tune of compassion every step light and free

Deep inside the mind, hear the message of life.

When we march, it is understanding we will find

Walking the path of happiness, we put the past behind.

Dance of knowledge 

Moves to the beat of love

Every step guided from above

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

FREEDOM OF THE SOUL

We give up on life when we think we are right

Only looking for a fight as the mind lives in the uneducated night

Freedom of the soul is more than religion.

It is the understanding of peace and how to embrace it and take hold.

When there is love between all human beings is when we are free.

We give up on life when we seek attention.

Everything you say or do, is proof your blind to your own reflection.

Freedom of the soul is more than emotions.

Thinking there untamed binding them up in chemical controls

When living life is about searching and finding 

We give up on life when we have no goals.

Sacrifice for the greater good never gets old.

Freedom of the soul is more than an accomplishment.

Ignoring the complex parts of life as simple solutions are bought and sold

If you don't reach out to feel you just stumble in the dark

We give up on life when there is no love.

The hero sits alone, looking down from above.

Freedom of the soul is more than a physical act.

A single emotion considered an activity dose does not make us whole.

Turning to a blank page does mean nothing is there; it means there is purity. 

We give up on life when there is no movement.

When we forget our passions and just stop, there is no improvement.

Freedom of the soul is more than action.

Children are the commitment to unconditional love that never gets old.

The recipe is a lot of education, and discipline of the mind is life fulfillment.

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020  

TEA COOKIES AND LEMONADE

There she was sitting in her chair

The passage of time seen in her gray hair

She sits not in a chair but on a throne of honor

Tea cookies and lemonade the silent child ate

Cookies salty-sweet this is how she will grow to be

Lemonade just enough tart you can see it from her heart

Words of wisdom in a melodious feminine tone

Encouraging us to rise up and tell me you are not alone

As I listen to her wisdom I become stronger

Tea cookies and lemonade the silent child ate

Cookies that dissolve on the tung where words have yet to be sung

Lemonade cooling and refreshing to what she dreams

Still her voice echos in our minds

She has made a mark on the pages of time

I wish I could talk to her

Tea cookies and lemonade the silent child ate

Cookies filling a child's desires that she has yet to reach

Lemonade tart to those who don't understand but sweet to those who she inspired

 

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

FATHERS AND MOTHERS / SONS AND DAUGHTERS

Sons of sand

Holding signs I am a man 

Daughters of dust

Holding signs, life in her gut

Fathers of the past

Never thought how long this would last

Mothers of the movement

Never thought so many forget their commitments

Sons of man

Fictional to control and command

Daughter of woman

Subjected to the desire of lust

Fathers of the future

Hoping they did right for the legacy

Mothers of the forgotten

Hoping their child returns home safe

Sons of redemption

Committed to a dream of equality

Daughters of justice

Standing alone these tears are not forgiveness

Sons and Fathers

Fallow each other

Mothers and Daughters

Embrace each other

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

LIFE IS

Life is the reason for living

Even when society has a knife at your throat

Life is the reason for giving

Even when communities are divided by a moat

Life is the reason for loving

Even when you're not worthy to vote

Life is more than flesh and bones

Even when many are left out in the cold

Life is more than a valuable stone 

Even when many have to leave their home

Life is more than ignorance is the tone

Life is unconditional love

A dance you have when alone

Life is a purpose for the soul

A story that never gets old

Life is a constantly changing goal

Life is you

Life is me

Life is us

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

THERE IS A WIND

The wind in the trees the sound of what it like to be free

The cry of a newborn son is the beginning of love

Where is that mountain top where Martin saw the dream

Where is that path to the valley of peace

Where is that message of hope hidden from me

The wind on the water pushing the waves of the past

The cry of dignity echoing through these monuments and memorials

Where is that promise that you maid to me 

Where is that voice to call for accountability in our choice

Where is that hand reaching down to pull up

There is a wind blowing through the street

There is a wind blowing through the halls

There is a wind in us all

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

WE HIDE

Hunger hides in the schools

Hunger hides in the uneducated

Hunger hides in a child's mind

 

Why should this be a political fight?

We are not asking for a feast, just a little something to eat.

 

Sadness hides in the home

Sadness hides in the room

Sadness hides in the man on the streets

 

Don't want to run in your circle anymore.

Want to take that straight line leave it all behind

 

Pain hides in the head

Pain hides in the lie

Pain hides in the woman's box

 

Change your name change your life game.

Want to remove this pain just to replace it with a different kind of pain

 

Ignorance hides in the tip of a pen

Ignorance hides in the words of a little girl

Ignorance hides in the toothless follower

 

Red hat, red mask dyed with the blood of the virus of millions 

Showing off how privilege you can be when it is only attention you need

 

Love hides behind newborn eyes.

Love hides in giving without a witness. 

Love hides in a kiss unconditional.

 

More than a touch more than activity

Life, designed to be free

 

Hope hides in a morel decision

Hope hides in the silences before the dawn

Hope hides in the gift shop of the Obama Center

 

The last few dollars on a losing lotto ticket

Has more hope than what a preacher asks for in faith

 

Peace hides within the mind; the questions of life are inside.

Peace hides in the silence of nature  

Peace hides in the forgiveness of oneself

 

The things we search for we hide

The meaning to these feelings we hide 

All that we hide has become a part of life.

 

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

DIWALI

Never seen the night so bright
Even inside when feeling soul the light
This is the time to change from wrong to right

Where is the party when it is Diwali
Music and dancing when it is Diwali
Celebrating a new day when it is Diwali

From the temple to home knowledge in the light is what we all know
I am soul, you are soul, intellectual cleaning will make us free
Remove all the webs and dust know that it is the love we can trust

So much food when it is Diwali

Light triumphs of the night when it is Diwali

Celebrating a new life when it is Diwali

Goddess Lakshmi comes and dances with me

She got all the wealth and prosperity it is much more than charity

Clearing the way for respect and dignity

Light the lamps when it is Diwali

Felling the peaceful mood when it is Diwali

Celebrating a new me when it is Diwali

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

KARIN CRIES

Wasn't looking for her but she came out of nowhere and got in the way

I don't think that the Queen of England acts the same

No cure for what she has she is a victim of her own pain

Karin cries when she knows she not right

Living in her own mental lies

Karin cries at whatever she finds

Loosing out when it has nothing to do with constitutional rights 

Threaten to make a call not knowing she is the one soon to fall

Bitten by the white snake the venom in her blood she got no love

No one knows her pain, no one knows why she acts that way

Karin cries not knowing she has given up her pride

Easily selling off her freedom to someone wish her dead

Karin cries dry tears no container it fills

No cure for the ills of her head

One blame, one shame, has yet to know the pain

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

ESSENCE OF TIME

What do you need from me

Lurking following, there is a sense of you, but I can't see

To understand you is always changing

With no destination my life I am rearranging

What I need from you

I need a schedule to keep pace, is all I can do

Can't quite what I have started

Late to the party isn't what I wanted

Who you think you are

Can't describe you near or far

Never in one place, you got no face

Without you, I might never get paid

Who am I without you

Can't keep an appointment without you

Always running late looking like a fool

Try to keep you on my wrist treat you like a tool

Nothing grows without you

Nothing moves without you

No schedules without you

This is the essence of you

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

THIS ROOM

All I need is another call from you

Doesn't matter how many minutes we use

Need to hear the sound of your voice to soothe

What more is there for me to do

This room alone again

The walls have become my best friends

Late into the night, we conversate 

Conversations alone with these walls

Echoing in the mind deep in the halls

I say the color of these walls are beige, they say their tan

Arguing with a wall does not make me a crazy man

This room deep in my mind

Trying to master my thoughts

So many secrets, if these walls could talk

If they told the truth I would say that's a lie

But where else is there for me to hide

As night comes outside I close my eyes

Outside these walls is where my dreams flys

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

  

WHY NOW

Given up your truth for some attention

Took a bowl of soup instead of a blessing

Need to think things through before you move

Why now, living in an emotional state

Speeding a million miles an hour with no brakes

Everyone feels the pain of this hate

Given up your freedom for a red hat

There is no logic to this new math

Need a better change, let us all kneel and pray

Why now, twin cities splitting at its seems

As we see the burning of a thousand dreams

Purification in the lakes waters is what we need

Given up your soul for racist words

After four hundred years the echo still can be heard

Need a word to warm the cold blood of the heart

Why not peace right now.

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020  

PRETTY BLUE

Think that I might have forgotten you

It might be true never but I never asked anything of you

My dreams don't match the reality of you

Pretty blue where did you go too

No one like you in my mind

Was our friendship just an elegant lie

These feeling never change the many times the heart brakes

But I am the only one to blame when you walk away

What do you say when you think of me today

Pretty blue where did you go too

When you where the passenger of my mind

Never to experience these unconditional feelings

When you were alone I was only in your mind

I would call you every time just to make it alright

Now I have mastered the feelings I have of you

Pretty blue where did you go too

To hold you would be an intimate lie

When you smiled it would happen every time

Reality lies when I am next to you who is always a fool

Going out of my way for heartbreak and pain

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

GOOD PEACE

Good peace its what we all dream

Never to be out of reach

Should never be too far to see

Why you need all the attention

When a family lives in desperation

Fame alone will never pay the bills

Good peace it should be the reality

Never to be a footnote in history

A man should never have to take a knee

Why we treated different ways

When I stood in line right behind you

I am no better I have nothing to prove

Good peace it should be more than a feeling

Never to be an idea of an educated mind

When we hear our leaders lie another child dies

Why you need to be rich

When the poor only dreams of it

Living a lie when you have to pay someone to be by your side

Good peace is more than thoughts and prayers

Should be service without a care

The proof shouldn't be recorded on your phone

Why not live in purity 

You'll have so much dignity

*Loving your self till everyone else does too

Good peace should be more than a thought

Good peace should come from the heart

Good peace should start from right where you are

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

*From the song STYLE by Prince Rogers Nelson

from the album EMANCIPATION, NPG Music 

 

POETIC

Random thoughts from the heart

So much more than inspirational

Creative lines of words are where it starts

Poetic thoughts profound in rhythm and rhyme

Fractured word caught between inspiration and validation

Haiku is the poetic phlegm I spit at you

Wet and dry all at the same time 

No reasoning to the word that you choose

Poetic words with feeling and deep meaning

Incoherent babble just to make words rhyme to save time

Picturesque musings through the rainbow haze

Hear the songs of the early morning

Put the past behind you look to the sun of a new day

Poetic movement with intent and purpose

Hear the purple omens as Misty Copeland floats by

No one can write the same as the crow flys

On a pilgrimage to the destination, there are twist and turns

You have learned more than what anyone has heard in these words

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

NO DISCRIMINATION

No discrimination from girl to boy
Lavender and peach nothing you ever need
Like I said it is you I want to hold
If you had everything would you still like me

Dorothy, she got the counsel and education is the foundation
This noise is louder than equality that is always free

No discrimination from woman to man
Cheating creation just because you think you can
Now you got more problems than anyone should have
Life isn't all that bad and not ever tear from your eye is sad

Michelle, she got the books anyone can read
Loving that family man better than one woman can

No discrimination from brown to beige
Got no education you let them know your name
Fact and fiction got no description now it is the deception
A question is an insult when you got no intelligent answer

Gail, she got the voice girl you got to make that noise
Known by that one letter optimism gets so much better

No discrimination from culture to tradition
Don't like what you are given when your think life isn't worth liven
Greed is the only thing the ego eats when the mind isn't free


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

INSPIRATION

Can't demand creativity to magically appear
It just doesn't rain the right conditions have to be in the air
Original thought comes 30 seconds later from the heart

Inspiration
So much complication a created sensation
Inspiration
So much noise when everyone wants to have a voice

Ask me what I think, you might not like what you hear
But you forgetting me is what I fear the feeling has been there for years
That is in the past, and I chose to burn that bridge and dry up those tears

Inspiration
So much complexity in understanding humanity
Inspiration
So much commotion can't believe everything I am told.

Out of the quarantined mind, I will survive
Finding so much more to life without much time
Looking forward to when *the rainbow children rise

Inspiration
So much involvement only one has the ingredients
Inspiration
So much agitation from one voice making so many contradiction

Can't answer a question got no answers your insults are just dumb
So many much smarter than you but you think you know what to do
They all pander to you know you the only fool in the room

Inspiration
So much thought goes into it got to write that down before I forget
Inspiration
So much content to lazy to collect and organize it

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

*The Rainbow Children by Prince PRN

NORMAL

What is normal?
A state of being comfortable.
I never consistently felt comfortable
Not here not anywhere

What is normal?
A standard of being consistent with what is trendy
The mom who wares yoga-pants to the mall pushing an empty stroller
No one even stairs

What is normal?
A state of being free from a physical or mental disorder
Who collects the rent for this cerebral room I am in
No longer the owner of my own thoughts

What is normal?
A state of being on a surface that measures to the degree of the one after it
The complicated structure just to control the atmosphere 
This place, this room, this chair who is really sitting hear

What is normal?
A state of being close to you when I am only six feet away
Something wrong with you and me that we can't see
The new normal is all that anyone can say

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

CALL OF THE TIME

Wondering why, what is it I don't know
Living in this war of the souls
Regret in my mind all a wasted time

A message of knowledge from the light
No more night while living this life
Hear the call of the time

Fortune of man comes and go when connected with the ego
Without the service of the mind, it is wasted dust to the side
Claiming attention dose nothing for the soul

A message of knowledge from the light
No more night while living this life
Hear the call of the time

A contradiction of messages just for the attention
Corona the cats have nine lives,  pushing all the truth to the side
This all you will be known for it does nothing for anyone's soul

A message of knowledge from the light
No more night while living this life
Hear the call of the time

*A great negative force is reaching its peak...
It is very easy to become confused and even frightened
A positive turning towards peace is what we all need.

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

*From the booklet FEELING GREAT by Dadi Janki
Published by BKIS