In bed with deception, hypocrisy, lies
Your soul misconception, a part of you ups and dies
Leading your life is Smoke & Mirrors Continue reading “SMOKE & MIRRORS”
Author: Danny
RONGO, CARAVELLA BLUES
FROM DIAMONDS AND FURS, TO TOOLS AND TIRES
VERSE:
Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors and then Chanel
Designers of her life, she loved and wore them well
But now because it’s all gone south, with our economy
She ponders what to buy, checks prices constantly Continue reading “FROM DIAMONDS AND FURS, TO TOOLS AND TIRES”
OUR AMERICAN MIND
Another sight unseen
Auburn tears are realized fears in the ocean
And challenging me, to doubt you. Continue reading “OUR AMERICAN MIND”
CONSERVE ENERGY
As we are smack in the midst of our first heat wave of 2010 (please don’t think that this is our ‘only’ one) let’s review the basics. First, please make sure to check on your elders and pets and make sure they are safe. Next, we are instructed to take extra measures on conserving energy so we don’t put extra tax on these grids and find ourselves in the dark, literally. This all makes perfect sense, but why can’t we take basic measures to conserve throughout the year? If we could make it a habit of thinking along these lines on a daily basis, these moments of crisis wouldn’t seem so bothersome.
In my attempts to use my song ‘Where To Now?’ to help raise awareness towards our global warming crisis, I’ve joined forces with a website called “STOP GLOBAL WARMING” www.stopglobalwarming.org . Please visit the website and take a moment to look at all the ways WE ALL can conserve energy on A DAILY BASIS! This site also has plenty of ways for you to share this info via websites etc with buttons, banners et al.
My point is simple. Like everything else in life, if we get into habits of taking specific measures and efforts towards what we desire, we won’t feel the pressure of ‘act now or else’!
PLEASE CONSERVE ENERGY
READY OR NOT
You know it always seems so hard to find a salvation
(I’ve been looking for the light)
You got to turn the dream around and start a sensation, by giving it another try. Continue reading “READY OR NOT”
GUN SHY
So you wanna teach me a lesson?
With your high-heel shoes and your Smith & Wesson
Well I’m right here, just bring it baby
My holster’s loaded and I don’t mean maybe Continue reading “GUN SHY”
LOST IN TIME
Well if a day could last forever, would tomorrow be uncertain?
And the dawn is coming never, trapped in a time yes it hurts you
I can feel the pain inside it’s struggling to race the tide
Swept away without emotion
RONGO, CARAVELLA BLUES
A generation passed me by, whoa did time fly!
Seeing decades turn the corner, see’em laugh and say ‘bye-bye’
All this a reminder, inevitable old-age finder
Kids all say ‘Its so far away and I really do not mind her’ Continue reading “RONGO, CARAVELLA BLUES”
9 years = no towers: Ground ‘Zero’ (literally)
(I couldn’t copy the photos I’m referring to, but go to my Newsvine page to see the two photos of Shanghai. One from 1990 and one from 2010)
Take a look at these pictures, and tell me what you see? I see the development of an entire city (not just two buildings) that took only twenty years. Is Shanghai that much farther advanced technologically? Maybe in some aspects, but considering that only 100 years ago the horse and buggy was still a means of transportation for us, probably not.
How can Shanghai create an entire city in 20 years, and it’s been 9 years and we STILL don’t have our Twin Towers? (or the ‘Freedom Tower’, the name doesn’t matter)
It amazes me AND breaks my heart at the same time. Just the thought that in other parts of the world an entire city can be constructed where we cannot replace a landmark and a pinnacle of our freedom. I wrote a song on September 11, 2008 and my words still mean a lot to me: “I was there that day, when the earth stood still. It took my breath away, and it always will”. Did we forget what they did to us? Lets recap; They hijacked jets filled with fuel and a few hundred passengers and flew them directly into the World Trade Center towers (as well as other targets) killing, no MURDERING thousands of innocent people!
Our replacement structure should have been built IMMEDIATELY!
I reside in NJ but work in New York City along with millions of other people who are reminded on a DAILY BASIS that our once proud beacon of lower Manhattan is not here. Oh yeah, I know that construction has started and I believe we’re up to 15 floors or so….WHOA! look out now! If we compare that to Shanghai’s development we get laughed at. 9 years, 15 floors. Is that the response that we wanted to show the world? Yeah, sure we took other measures as a response, but what about the actual structures that they took away, the fabric of our daily lives, THE TOWERS! What about them?
How come we didn’t show the world our TRUE RESILIENCE!
I’m writing about this today because a friend shared these pictures with me and it broke my heart all over again. To see such amazing advancements that other cities have made, and we here in the United States first, then directly here in New York (concrete jungle where dreams are made of) ‘The Greatest City In The World’ are forced to play second fiddle. I’m not looking to raise a debate over this because honestly, our time to show our stuff has came and went. Our 9 year anniversary is just a few months away and we still don’t have anything to show for it. My only concern at this time and place is, WHY? Why did we let politics and bureaucracy get in the way of our true American spirit? Why did we not seize the moment to show the world who we really are? I believe that if we erected towers right away, that would have had as much effect as capturing Bin Laden
(oh wait, we didn’t do that either..)