When Life evolves to that place
Where Self and Life interface,
With Soul and World perceived as one,
Time and Being become as one.
This sacred matrimony, once in place,
Bequeathed, holds to its patterns and its pace.
Novel things break in to have their way,
Forsake such bliss for fancies of the day;
Wild oats of Ego fly at the face
Of downtrodden youth, still yearning for its grace.
Greed and lust run naked in the street,
Till Life confronts the Soul it has to meet.
Nature waits out these wars against her will;
The springs of Life, from tears, again refill.
Copyright 2001-2015 L. S. Heatherly
Aug 21, 2015
Jun 25, 2015
Music, Song, Soul, Purpose, & Freedom
What sense is made of music and song?
But embrace the bond of human hearts as one!
Else, stay trapped in only room, mind-body spree;
Trapped in the side-pool of the me, afloat in self-centered sea.
Real music and song play us: like a child at our door with a kite!
Forms of the imagination's real and true flight!
In deep, reflective meditations of life; the soul opens like a flower to Sun,
Taps into music unplayable by instruments,
Except purest, heart string's ladders rung.
Don't forget music and song were first created in primal, eco village,
And family camp! Don't forget that authentic happening informs
Of our real, authentic, unpolluted purpose, nature, value, and freedom- tillage!
Thus, the deep soul-self, or spirit-self, re-becomes, re-finds and re-enters
One of our lost, hunting grounds, creating song, music and village, our common centers.
Real and great songs and music need real and great receptions--
By souls--not just by fans' inflections.
If music does not leave us in some kind of spirit spell entreated;
It was not fully played, fully heard, or not fully and accurately created.
Great music and song release some portion of organic, human natures,
spirit, being and eco-community that oppression by civilization wagers.
To know why a tune or song exists; ask, what peoples,
purpose, values and social sector, prospered and embraced sound- steeples.
Ask: of the the musician or songster: which side they are on!
Ours? Or the sides of material riches, arrogance, excesses and empires come?
Hearing music or song, we leave the ego-self, get transported nearer home!
Somewhere between where the artist would have us, and our soul has known!
We have to make the leap back into our humanity's common soul!
There is no fence to sit on-- it's wings of hearts! Or path where asses stroll!
Art is known for momentarily, temporarily liberating, artist and patron.
Will it ever end subjugations and oppressions institutionalized by nation!
O melody and lyric! Combine for pure, free spirit!
O song! Restore pure relatings, that hearts stay lit!
Have thy sounds portrayed the re-becoming of our souls!
Have voice and eyes retaken depths of where love grows!
Ring safe each child! Reclaim childhood, love stories!
Route out the artful hoax, ring in all kindness-glories! .
Copyright 2015- 2016 L.S. Heatherly
But embrace the bond of human hearts as one!
Else, stay trapped in only room, mind-body spree;
Trapped in the side-pool of the me, afloat in self-centered sea.
Real music and song play us: like a child at our door with a kite!
Forms of the imagination's real and true flight!
In deep, reflective meditations of life; the soul opens like a flower to Sun,
Taps into music unplayable by instruments,
Except purest, heart string's ladders rung.
Don't forget music and song were first created in primal, eco village,
And family camp! Don't forget that authentic happening informs
Of our real, authentic, unpolluted purpose, nature, value, and freedom- tillage!
Thus, the deep soul-self, or spirit-self, re-becomes, re-finds and re-enters
One of our lost, hunting grounds, creating song, music and village, our common centers.
Real and great songs and music need real and great receptions--
By souls--not just by fans' inflections.
If music does not leave us in some kind of spirit spell entreated;
It was not fully played, fully heard, or not fully and accurately created.
Great music and song release some portion of organic, human natures,
spirit, being and eco-community that oppression by civilization wagers.
To know why a tune or song exists; ask, what peoples,
purpose, values and social sector, prospered and embraced sound- steeples.
Ask: of the the musician or songster: which side they are on!
Ours? Or the sides of material riches, arrogance, excesses and empires come?
Hearing music or song, we leave the ego-self, get transported nearer home!
Somewhere between where the artist would have us, and our soul has known!
We have to make the leap back into our humanity's common soul!
There is no fence to sit on-- it's wings of hearts! Or path where asses stroll!
Art is known for momentarily, temporarily liberating, artist and patron.
Will it ever end subjugations and oppressions institutionalized by nation!
O melody and lyric! Combine for pure, free spirit!
O song! Restore pure relatings, that hearts stay lit!
Have thy sounds portrayed the re-becoming of our souls!
Have voice and eyes retaken depths of where love grows!
Ring safe each child! Reclaim childhood, love stories!
Route out the artful hoax, ring in all kindness-glories! .
Copyright 2015- 2016 L.S. Heatherly
Apr 15, 2015
Revolution by Songs: Love, Peace, Earth, Children (transformativeness - fair use)
In late 2010, L.S. Heatherly, added songwriting and recording to his life-
long mission for humanity's development, well-being and sustainability.
[update] As of [2018], Heatherly has written, sang, recorded and produced [29] songs
(in his bare-bones home studio). None have been released; as his purpose, here, is
writing songs to inspire improvements in all of humanity's well-being and peace;
while, having no aim at becoming a noted, recording artist.
Each of Heatherly's songs have US Registered Copyrights (in the Library of Congress),
granting him four ownership rights: Lyrics (transformative, fair use), Sound Recording, Performance, and Production.
These transformtive, fair use songs were inspired by songs consistently found
on most lists of {top 100, 200 or 500) All-time Classic Hit Songs. In fact, many
of Heatherly's songs are transformatives derived from the top 70 songs found on many of these lists.
Copyright and Fair Use: The Transformative Factor
In a 1994 case, the Supreme Court emphasized this first factor:
The Transformative Factor: the Purpose and Character of Your Work;
as being a primary indicator of Fair Use.
. Has the material you have taken from the original work been transformed
by adding new expression or meaning?
. Was value added to the original by creating new information, new aesthethics, or new insights, and understandings?
Fair use Copyright Law also emphasizes creation of new meaning and message to
individuals and society..
Meeting the four factors required for Copyright fair use, and more; Heatherly has, through
serious, transformtive fair use creation, authentically created
28 transformative fair use songs-- derived transformatively -- from Great Pop,
Folk and light Rock classics. These transformative fair use songs include
transformative, fair use derivatives of/from songs of such artists as
5 of McCartney-Lennon
1 of Geaorge Harrison
3 of Elton John
2 of Stevie Wonder
1 of Neil Young
1 of Bonnie Tylers
1 of Whitney Houston's
2 of Bob Dylan's
1 of Billy Joel
and
8 Holiday and Spiritual Songs now in the Public Domain
ALL have BECOME, through fair use transformativeness, songs of Earth, Love, Children, and Peace
and all have 3-4 of these 4 words in their (US Reg Copyright) titles and lyrics (Titles themselves cannot be copyrighted.)
Ideally, all of Heatherly's rights to these tranformative fair use classics will be sold to the artist(s) of the original hit songs. Excepting, of course, those with Public Domain music.
A few of these having PD music, Heatherly plans to release himself.
Copyright 2016 L.S. Heatherly
long mission for humanity's development, well-being and sustainability.
[update] As of [2018], Heatherly has written, sang, recorded and produced [29] songs
(in his bare-bones home studio). None have been released; as his purpose, here, is
writing songs to inspire improvements in all of humanity's well-being and peace;
while, having no aim at becoming a noted, recording artist.
Each of Heatherly's songs have US Registered Copyrights (in the Library of Congress),
granting him four ownership rights: Lyrics (transformative, fair use), Sound Recording, Performance, and Production.
These transformtive, fair use songs were inspired by songs consistently found
on most lists of {top 100, 200 or 500) All-time Classic Hit Songs. In fact, many
of Heatherly's songs are transformatives derived from the top 70 songs found on many of these lists.
Copyright and Fair Use: The Transformative Factor
In a 1994 case, the Supreme Court emphasized this first factor:
The Transformative Factor: the Purpose and Character of Your Work;
as being a primary indicator of Fair Use.
. Has the material you have taken from the original work been transformed
by adding new expression or meaning?
. Was value added to the original by creating new information, new aesthethics, or new insights, and understandings?
Fair use Copyright Law also emphasizes creation of new meaning and message to
individuals and society..
Meeting the four factors required for Copyright fair use, and more; Heatherly has, through
serious, transformtive fair use creation, authentically created
28 transformative fair use songs-- derived transformatively -- from Great Pop,
Folk and light Rock classics. These transformative fair use songs include
transformative, fair use derivatives of/from songs of such artists as
5 of McCartney-Lennon
1 of Geaorge Harrison
3 of Elton John
2 of Stevie Wonder
1 of Neil Young
1 of Bonnie Tylers
1 of Whitney Houston's
2 of Bob Dylan's
1 of Billy Joel
and
8 Holiday and Spiritual Songs now in the Public Domain
ALL have BECOME, through fair use transformativeness, songs of Earth, Love, Children, and Peace
and all have 3-4 of these 4 words in their (US Reg Copyright) titles and lyrics (Titles themselves cannot be copyrighted.)
Ideally, all of Heatherly's rights to these tranformative fair use classics will be sold to the artist(s) of the original hit songs. Excepting, of course, those with Public Domain music.
A few of these having PD music, Heatherly plans to release himself.
Copyright 2016 L.S. Heatherly
Mar 16, 2015
What's Killing the US Economy
(quotes from Nick Hanauer, billionaire, 2/8/15 in theatlantic.com)
"Profits once flowed to higher wages or increased investment. Now, they
enrich a small number of shareholders [super-rich shareholders]."
"..economic power has shifted from workers to owners over the
past 40 years..."
"A 3.6 trillion budget shortfall has left... public infrastructure in disrepair."
"Federal spending on...research and development has plummeted 40%..."
"...public university tuition, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled
in the past 30 years."
"Where did all the money go?"
"...much of it went to stock buybacks -- more than 6.9 trillion dollars
went to stock buybacks since 2004 [alone]."
"In the past, this money flowed through the broader economy in the
form of higher wages, and plant and equipment investment..."
"But, today these buybacks drain trillions of dollars of windfall profits
out of the real economy [the American people's economy] and into
a paper-asset bubble, inflating share prices [of the super-rich], while
producing nothing of tangible value [to the American Peoples lives,
well-being, incomes, future and infrastructure]."
[It should be added that the above chunk of the demise of US democracy is
occurring in China, India, Western Europe, Brazil-- anywhere that an
upper 1% are stealthily, illegitimately, taking money from Earth's evolved
natural resources--the Earth's lands, waters, other
natural resources, and from Earth's masses of diverse peoples.--
L.S. Heatherly]
Creative commons
"Profits once flowed to higher wages or increased investment. Now, they
enrich a small number of shareholders [super-rich shareholders]."
"..economic power has shifted from workers to owners over the
past 40 years..."
"A 3.6 trillion budget shortfall has left... public infrastructure in disrepair."
"Federal spending on...research and development has plummeted 40%..."
"...public university tuition, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled
in the past 30 years."
"Where did all the money go?"
"...much of it went to stock buybacks -- more than 6.9 trillion dollars
went to stock buybacks since 2004 [alone]."
"In the past, this money flowed through the broader economy in the
form of higher wages, and plant and equipment investment..."
"But, today these buybacks drain trillions of dollars of windfall profits
out of the real economy [the American people's economy] and into
a paper-asset bubble, inflating share prices [of the super-rich], while
producing nothing of tangible value [to the American Peoples lives,
well-being, incomes, future and infrastructure]."
[It should be added that the above chunk of the demise of US democracy is
occurring in China, India, Western Europe, Brazil-- anywhere that an
upper 1% are stealthily, illegitimately, taking money from Earth's evolved
natural resources--the Earth's lands, waters, other
natural resources, and from Earth's masses of diverse peoples.--
L.S. Heatherly]
Creative commons
Jan 5, 2015
New Years: Youth, Age, Life and Freedom
Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest
love not freedom, but licence.
-- John Milton
What is the nature of natural, innate, human freedom-- authentic
to our natural, human species? This is almost never asked nor answered.
To know, to have consciousness of, free human life and world; go to places
where there is abundant free forms of other social mammals, preceeding us.
For, we emerged from these freedoms, with these, are a part of these;
or we are diminished and perish.
You can identify human freedom by the company it keeps-- by abundant
free plants and the animals that preceeded our emergence from free
plants and animals. We come from the slow natural selection of freedoms,
interactive with, and dependent upon, many other species. Their
life and freedoms are a part of our life and freedoms.
What is the nature of natural, innate free plants and animals?
These can be identified by the free, unadulterated lands and
waters they keep to. You will not find them and their communities
in the city's land and water-scapes! City-life is conquered and ruled
by a quasi, human organism, engaged in the pursuit of elitist power;
rather than Earth's ecological growth in interactive, freedoms of many
ecological species of life, of which, our human being, lives
and freedoms are part.
-- L.S. Heatherly
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection,
and restrant than to be in shackles.
-- Pietro Belluscb
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men [often unknowingly]
dread it [the real thing].
-- George Bernard Shaw
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
-- Victor Hugo
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one
of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
-- Henry Frederic Amiell
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.
-- George Santayana
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity.
When I give, I give myself.
-- Walt Whitman
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
-- William Wordsworth
Copyright 2015 L.S. Heatherly
Nov 30, 2014
Garden of Being
By L.S. Heatherly
(dedicated to past Gardeners)
Unchased, now, one woman,
Unpursueing, now, one man,
Untilled, now, one garden.
One soul, believing no time is free,
Making its ancient rounds, diligently.
Yet, leaving more stones unturned.
One being, one citizen, of Earth's soil,
On watch over soil-life, sans toil,
Recovers something so faithfully earned:
Human culture-sproutings from Earth,
Once, our fate! An innate part of us;
Now, recovered birthright! So just!
Children, family, working, playing,
Rediscover their relatings in the maze
Of plant, blood, and human ways.
Yea, once -- before History's conquests --
Embraced, passed, equally, to all;
O vital part: of human being's call!
Fingers touch soil, water and air of Earth,
Souls' clutch growth, from seeds of their birth.
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
(dedicated to past Gardeners)
Unchased, now, one woman,
Unpursueing, now, one man,
Untilled, now, one garden.
One soul, believing no time is free,
Making its ancient rounds, diligently.
Yet, leaving more stones unturned.
One being, one citizen, of Earth's soil,
On watch over soil-life, sans toil,
Recovers something so faithfully earned:
Human culture-sproutings from Earth,
Once, our fate! An innate part of us;
Now, recovered birthright! So just!
Children, family, working, playing,
Rediscover their relatings in the maze
Of plant, blood, and human ways.
Yea, once -- before History's conquests --
Embraced, passed, equally, to all;
O vital part: of human being's call!
Fingers touch soil, water and air of Earth,
Souls' clutch growth, from seeds of their birth.
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Sep 30, 2014
The Road Retaken
By L.S. Heatherly
How long this trace of road has wandered,
Dying, now, from lack of human reasons,
From sieges of growth, burrowings and seasons,
Is what the human mind first ponders.
And what became of the dream abandoned,
That rebelled, and took this path to somewhere,
Hoping for no trace of someone else having been,
For chance at grasping deeper self now here remanded?
And how long this dreamer's dream:
The resprouting of a life and soul?
How much of one being's lost ground retaken?
Is what the heart would have the mind could know.
from CH XI, Think Verse, Soul Lines, Ecopoetry
in THE LAST HUMAN SPRING
Copyright 2002 and 2009 L.S. Heatherly
Aug 31, 2014
Why Poets Write
by L.S. Heatherly
They say a picture's worth a thousand words.
If so; then why do poets write?
Do techno shots on paper, in movie, or Iphone screen
Lack what science and art imply they mean?
Is this magic show a seduction without end
To hide some lies on which we now depend?
Does the poet's eye of spirit-mind
Refute the eye of science-gadget mind?
Does this condensation of our speech
Reveal some truths that science cannot reach?
Will the poet eye rise-up to defy
The rampage-minds illusion that Picture's don't lie. ?
Will the spirit-eye go blind,
From the techno-eye, so prettily unkind?
from "CH XI: Think Verse, Soul Lines, Ecopoetry"
in the book, The LAST HUMAN SPRING PB, HB, and EBook
Copyright 2002 -- 2009 L.S. Heatherly
They say a picture's worth a thousand words.
If so; then why do poets write?
Do techno shots on paper, in movie, or Iphone screen
Lack what science and art imply they mean?
Is this magic show a seduction without end
To hide some lies on which we now depend?
Does the poet's eye of spirit-mind
Refute the eye of science-gadget mind?
Does this condensation of our speech
Reveal some truths that science cannot reach?
Will the poet eye rise-up to defy
The rampage-minds illusion that Picture's don't lie. ?
Will the spirit-eye go blind,
From the techno-eye, so prettily unkind?
from "CH XI: Think Verse, Soul Lines, Ecopoetry"
in the book, The LAST HUMAN SPRING PB, HB, and EBook
Copyright 2002 -- 2009 L.S. Heatherly
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