Flashback Friday Poetry: The Lullaby of Broadway

all have dreamed of the Great White Way
the Way of the Broad some might say
but this is a different lifestyle you see
there’s no business like Show Business to me
it gives you that old Razzle Dazzle
dazzling inside you that Razzle
so come along and listen to
the Lullaby of Broadway

Life is a Cabaret old chum
meaning life is meant to be fun
a musical cleans the dust off one’s Soul
it brings you to life and makes you whole
on and off and sometimes off-off
the spark of a nation will never be lost
so come along and listen to
the Lullaby of Broadway

Early poetry from James. From the poetry collection Pariah Bound: The Lonesome Poetry.

Tuesday Poetry: Under the Cat’s Eye Moon

The heart within my heart (Trapped within my
thoughts) Beats for you (Fantasies unfulfilled)
Even if yours does not (Obstacles
plentiful) Under the cat’s eye moon (As
many as stars above) I dream of
what was not (Nightmares relived daily) A
reverie of peace

(Healing takes time) Lighting up my eyes (Time
feels never ending) I can’t stop the 
smile you generate (The past directs
the present) A world without you
unimagined (And I’ve nowhere to run)
I destroy the thought before it comes (Stuck
in the circular dreamscape)

This beating heart of mine (Love is a 
fickle thing) Often falls for what can’t be
had (Fantasies unfulfilled)

From the poetry collection Cats, Coffee, Catharsis.