A NEW YEAR’S WISH FOR GOOD HEALTH 2024

 

Krakens and Ravens and feathers and charms

Homemade holy water for backyard farms

Long ago stirred cauldrons for world harmony

Now it’s for healthful serenity

Into the aethers I send my song

Chords blanketing us, what could be wrong?

Bones and tones and colorful smoke

World filled with strong and erect folk

Whatever you believe for enhancing the days

Share with the moon and sun’s healing rays

Sing it, strum it, drum it too

Use prayer or science or loving Hoodoo

Elemental love of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

We are the universe’s sons and daughters

Heal…heal…heal…

☼ ☼ ☼

 

© 2020 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE: New Year 2024 revised

 

MAKE MUSIC DAY DECEMBER 21, 2023

 

Winter Music Events | Worldwide Celebration of Music | June 21st, 2023 (makemusicday.org)

 

SOMETHING PRIMAL

C/Never been in love or D7/loved
D7/Struggled to stay C/afloat
C/Can any man be so D7/perfect
D7/As a series of musical G6/notes?

F/Something primal G6/making it sing
Em7/Slapping bongos or F/tambourines
F/Skin aglow D7/feeling the sting

C/Fantasy in D7/chords of blue
D7/How will I ever Am/find you

C/Flavor of a D7/good man
D7/Like eating chocolate C/Ice cream
C/As taste buds revived D7/deliciously
D7/In a piquant G6/daydream

F/Something primal G6/making it sing
Em7/Blowing horns hot as a F/thermal spring
F/Pumping blood rides D7/an upward swing

C/Fantasy of D7/honeyed kiss
D7/Craving a present Am/life of bliss

C/Longing for a D7/reality
D7/Consigning all the C/nightmares
C/Back to the D7/dreaded past
D7/Of implacable ghosts of G6/despair

F/Something primal G6/making it sing
Em7/Fast picking of guitar’s F/heart strings
F/Spiraling out on strong D7/beating wings

C/Fantasy of love D7/in the now
D7/Intending to live the Am/myth somehow

© 2016 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja) words and chords
Amateurishly Written for Baritone Ukulele or 4-string Tenor Guitar (tuned DGBE)

 

 

WINTER SOLSTICE 2023 ELEMENTS

 

Started with a tree

Grown from a Walmart wannabe

Decorated with ball and ribbon, you see

Planted it on Spring Equinox with herb tea

Thanks, EARTH, dug from the road called Santee

 

Days before, AIR so stormy

Gusts 50 miles screaming like a Banshee

Yet my meager decorations oh, such cheapies

Managed to hang on without a whimper, staggeringly

Sending the message “Be brave” to very-worried me

 

Then WATER rained down like a lost sea

Buckets needed inside for that roof so leaky

Yet from past experience I knew what would be

Rainwater: loved by plants, the gardener’s key

And then it stopped, seemingly easily

 

And the clouds cleared up so I didn’t flee

Watching the FIRE spiritually

My face and arms osmosising lots of Vitamin D

The Sun Stood Still admiringly

As Winter Solstice set all living things free…

 

Healthy & Happy Winter Solstice Northern Hemisphere Friends

Healthy & Happy Summer Solstice Southern Hemisphere Friends

 

© 2023 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE:  Almost-decorated outdoor tree

 

 

    WINTER SOLSTICE SUN TEA 2023

 

Stuffing my mason jar

With Holy (Tulsi) Basil

And naturally sweet Stevia

Herbs grown lovingly

Mixed with natural well-water

Sun tea to celebrate

Another Winter Solstice

But Tarot’s #14 Temperance

Suggests balance

So the drink is pure

But the peppermint bark candy bar

Hidden in my hoodie pocket

Adds just the right touch

To ultra-sweet-tooth cravings

But oh, those calories

But, butt,  I’ll dance them off

In tonight’s waxing moonlight

Singing The Beatles’

Here Comes the Sun

Simultaneously welcoming

The shortest night

Of the solar year

Presenting an all-star sky

Crystal clear…

 

© 2023 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE: Sun tea Mason Jar 2