David Michael Jackson

Facebook Ten Commandments

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Thou shall have no other websites before me.
All other websites must present themselves to me and beg to be noticed.
Thou shall not kill thy page.
Thou shalt like thy friends and some of their posts
Thou shall not post too much.
Thou shall not get an account for thy cat, thy dog or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt promote thy post.
Thou shall make no craven image in the shape of twitter birds.
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s likes
Thou shalt like this post.

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Self Portrait by Chris Carmichael

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self portrait Chris Carmichael

self portrait Chris Carmichael

Actually a good likeness. Talented people seem to have a Midas touch and this minimalist effort shows that Chris can be very expressive in any media.
We have been the home of our Chris Carmichael pages since 2000. Chris’ discography grows so fast it’s hard to keep track of it. For Chris, ‘lately it’s movie soundtracks, adding strings to George Strait, Buddy Guy and, it seems, every name in music. Chris is also Artvilla’s friend. He’s that friend who “went and got famous”, and we don’t brag about him nearly enough. We are going to change that because his work touches so many artists that it can suggest music that delights if we just pay attention.

If we are special at all,
it’s because of the friends we’ve made.
If our lives matter at all
it’s because of the love we’ve shared.
If our time is well spent,
it’s well spent together.
and if we are to be remembered
it’s because of whom we helped
and who helped us.

Chris Carmichael

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Poets Lament

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clouds and grass

 

 

 

A post hole digger

at best

at best some irises ,

at best

the wind making waves in the grass

at the very least

death

making waves in time

there could be no other way

there could be no other way

type it out each time

type it twice

No more whiskey of the mind.

See the grass between the toes?

See the cloud?

That’s Wordsworth’s cloud.

That’s Whitman’s grass.

Yours truly

An obscure poet in an anonymous  place

singing songs of grass and clouds.

Rattle your chains.

Bang the pots and pans and slam the cabinet doors.

Rattle your chains

Pick at the lock

Do not go

quietly below the clouds and grass

 

 

david michael jackson

Declaration Of Love For Nobody by Maria Marachowska

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maria

Maria’s minimal approach and slow beat causes the listener to pause, to reflect, to imagine.

Her profile says
Marachowska has created an entirely new music style.Its strength lies precisely in the slowness, intellectual value and profoundness. In her music and the soft timbre of her deep singing voice, this blue haze, that is Blues,

I see the wind in the trees
and the rise of steam from the coffee
I see the clouds slowly move over the horizon
She raises a cigarette to her lips
She exhales and the leaves rustle
It is a black and white world
except for the red
of the single rose on the table.

She leans forward,
“Where would you like to go?”

The cobblestones glisten in the moonlight.

I answer quietly,
“To Berlin.”

 

 

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