April 2021 – Page 4 – Flippant, Comic, and Serious

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘All You Need Is Love’ MercyMe

My drinking buddy Skip’s a great fan of MercyMe. So much so I’ve put him in charge of this department Don MatthewsApril 2021

From the FCS Book of Questions Needing Answers

If Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumleywhy isn’t Bottomley pronounced Bumley?

I Need to Paint the Ceiling

I need to paint the ceilingA ladder I’ve not gotSo thought I’d compromiseAnd use just what I’ve got…. Don MatthewsApril 2021

The Abandoned Randall Park Mall

I used to be alive oncePeople all aroundNow I’m dead, quiet, emptyNot a single sound Don MatthewsApril 2021

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)’ Playing For Change

Playing For Change was founded in 2002 by Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke. Producers Johnson and Enzo Buono traveled around the world to places including New Orleans, Barcelona, South Africa, India, Nepal, the Middle East and Ireland. Using mobile recording equipment, the duo recorded local musicians performing the same song, interpreted in their own style. Don MatthewsFebruary 2021

Robert Crosbie

“If you love someoneyou can forgive anything” Robert CrosbieTheosophist1849 – 1919

Stan Does Some Electrical Work Over the Lake

I had to reach the wiresStringing ‘cross the lakeThought up the bestest pathwayPathway I should take…. Don MatthewsApril 2021

Kiddie Slide

Commissioned the Department(The one for children’s slides)To make for village playgroundA kiddie’s one to ride…. The children all love it. Thankyou Department….. Don MatthewsApril 2021

Society for Addicted Poets (SAP) Moves In With FCS

We’re happy little addictsAddicts 1, 2, 3Stringing words togetherThen call it poetry We are addicted poetsAddicted to createMarried to our keyboards(Breakfast it can wait) Have to get our thoughts downAlready now lunchtimeMarried to our keyboards(I gotta finish rhyme….) We’ve tried to break the habitJust a waste of timeMarried to our keyboards(Still haven’t finished rhyme….) We’reContinue reading “Society for Addicted Poets (SAP) Moves In With FCS”