To Kindle My Songs

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook by Jane Bom-Bane

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A song about love and writer’s block, neither of which is ever worth battling with

lyrics

I’ll just walk alone for a while now, I told you
Blow some sea air through my bottle-necked words
I’ll follow the beacons that light when I hold you
I’ll fly on the wind with those free-wheeling birds

The deep skies were high and the white clouds were low
I soared and I swooped but my verses still slept
Under the current and over the flow
I was energy stored where the corals are swept

I searched among fossils and sea-shells that knew me
Eager to find the right form for your song
When something came to me, above me or through me
Woven with notions I’d owned all along

Silent and stately your galleon was steered
Slicing the sea without pomp, without voice
When out on the deck three boxes appeared
That beckoned me open the first of my choice

With unswerving step and a slow steady hand
I lifted the cedar wood lid like a shield
‘It’s JEWELS!’ I sang aloud to the land
Where the rich ringing rhymes of your stanzas are sealed

I cried with delight as a million gold darts
Burst from the crate on diagonal beams
While warm amber clusters befriended my heart
And tenderest topaz took care of my dreams

Lulled by the gilded and sulphury haze
Cradled in opal and soft ochre rocks
I slipped like a sylph through the pale golden rays
Releasing the clasp on the next wooden box

I almost drowned there in that lazuli pool
Till amethysts worked their purply brew
Sapphires proffered their translucent cool
And sleep nestled down in the dark midnight blue.

There I dreamed of navy ships and turquoise arcs across our skies
Indigo dust upon our lips with lapis landscapes in our eyes
The thinnest trills of distant strings spun their fragile cornelian lines
& dragonflied the daybreak’s wings with violet silks & gossamer wines

As the shocking red sun in orchestral swing
Rolled in its furnace the third chest broke free
Rockets of rubies were launched for my king
And gunflares of garnet set fire to the sea

As feverish scarlet whipped through the blues
Engulfing the gold in kaleidoscope wealth
I leaned on the ropes absorbing the news:
My first song to you had written itself

Then the marbled mosaics turned to prisms of white
And the quiet that fell was the purest I’d known
My world was at peace and the years became light
And never again would I face them alone

As I silently walked from my dreams to your arms
Eternal armadas of cargo set sail
With fruits and wild orchids, rare rhythms and balms
To kindle my songs if my own words should fail.

credits

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook, released May 26, 2022
NP- acoustic guitar, strings
Tom Arnold - percussion
Pic Leigh Jostins

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Jane Bom-Bane Rogers, Arkansas

JB-B performs original songs & poems to the accompaniment of harmonium. She's played around & outside the country & with Linda Thompson, David Thomas, John Bradbury, Rich Hall & David Cunningham, appeared solo on Ch 4, BBC 2, STV, Russian State TV, R 1,2,3,4 & 5Live, R Scotland & written many musicals performed with Eliza Skelton, Daisy Jordan, Emma Kilbey, Kate Daisy Grant etc at Bom-Bane's cafe. ... more

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