Monthly Archives: May 2011

These Black Times

Posted on May 30, 2011 by saffronsound

These black times they nearly buried me They stripped away the good in everything But I’m gonna colour that darkness with Your love Your love’s gonna break these black times …Yeah, Your love’s gonna break these black times…

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A Woman’s Touch

Posted on May 22, 2011 by saffronsound

In still times like these when I come to you, all my desire exposed, you take this blistered heart and lift it up to the sun for more. You clothe it in soft crimson robes to return it to it’s … Continue reading →

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Details

Posted on May 19, 2011 by saffronsound

God is not a detail artist. He designs with broad brush strokes and expects us to fill the rest. We cross-hatch furiously; Our hearts shade and contour their deepest desires and dreams, first loves and last ones too. Our hands … Continue reading →

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If

Posted on May 18, 2011 by saffronsound

Cradled between imagination and hope between dream and fantasy, is the impossibly small and tenderly optimistic realm of if… A nook, a cranny a tucked-away paradise illuminated by sheer anticipation, it carries the secrets of Wright and Vermeer. If shines … Continue reading →

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Balancing Act

Posted on May 15, 2011 by saffronsound

days of heavy rain and shades of gray that even hope has given up on have drenched her clothes, soaked through to the skin. rivulets of water run down her back and thighs and fill up her boots. heavy with … Continue reading →

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Saturday Afternoon

Posted on May 15, 2011 by saffronsound

You know how it is when you fall asleep on the couch and wake up suddenly and realize you drooled all over the couch cushion? And just then the doorbell rings, so you stumble to the door with couch lines … Continue reading →

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Highly Productive

Posted on May 14, 2011 by saffronsound

a moving sidewalk of business suits and ladder-climbing skirts that end exactly where the knee does. they march in sequence, choreographed by a higher power though clearly not high enough, but what does navy blue know about god anyway? we … Continue reading →

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Burn Your Name

Posted on May 13, 2011 by saffronsound

lyrics…this tune was originally called Violent Love but a musical collaboration forced a name change…give it a listen on http://www.reverbnation.com/lauriewinter… can’t even lift it i can’t roll it away i could try to walk around it but i’d be walking … Continue reading →

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From the Limestone it Comes

Posted on May 12, 2011 by saffronsound

In a cave of limestone, of hardened mineral and slow trickling water i make a bed; rest eludes, and that rattle in my bones gets louder in the dark. i drag my teeth and hair and bits of skin to … Continue reading →

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In your bones

Posted on May 11, 2011 by saffronsound

Well I’m the fight that’s going on inside your soul And I’m the reason you’re running home and I don’t know Which way your heart will flow But you can feel the meaning In your bones

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