148.  IMPRESSIVE
We come back to a one word title - all the rage these days.  Now let’s do some word play.  I visualize my writing projects like word puzzles.  All the letters are there, all the words are there, I just have to put them in the right order.  IMPRESSIVE - You’re so IMPRESSIVE I want to press against you & give you my impression+

149.  Redirect My Voice
After a stint of divorce stress, my voice went North.  The muscles pulled my larynx out of place - too high.  This is common in singers or people who speak a lot.  I’m massaging it back down, into place.  So I learned to Redirect My Voice.  If your voice is your art, you can Redirect Your Voice to say Yes or No.  This can mean a change of mind, a change in life, taking the path less travelled, going rogue, coming home, wishing on stars. 

146.  Taming The Garden After Much Rain
We had a soaker this spring and the foilage in the garden grew like a wild jungle.  By the time I got to pulling weeds, they were a foot high.  Taming The Garden After Much Rain can be an instrumental that builds up to that perfect place where the garden is neat and orderly.  Then the calm pause while the gardener removes her gloves, looks over her plot with a smile and sighs.

142.  The Temple Crash
Sometimes I get a title, and idea and write it down only to develop it later.  I’m looking at this title - The Temple Crash - and have no idea what I was thinking when writing it down.  It could be about a headache, the kind that pulses in your temples.  It can be about terrorists bombing another temple, although I never write about that.  It can be about the death of the physical body or temple.  Hmmm..  It does roll off the tonque quite nicely.  The Temple Crash.

143.  That Man!
This is rather fast like a Koko Taylor song.

That Man!  He ain’t my idea of a good time.
doom-doom-doom
That Man!  He calls the sharks on up to the shore line
doom-doom-doom
That Man! …  and on and on about what he does that makes you want to sing+

139.  A Car Went By
I was doing this, I was doing that
We were up here, We were down there
She was going out, He was coming in
And then…
A Car Went By

140.  Spark Me Baby!
Was reading a piece of erotica and the lover said to the lovee “Spark Me Baby!“  What a great title.  The author first used the phrase in reference to lighting a cigarette.  She used it a couple more times and at least one of them was in reference to a more sensual matter - something that comes on BEFORE lighting the cigarette.  :-) 

141.  Thanks For Throwing The Bird On The Roof
Here’s a title for a longer piece; longer than a haiku or a song lyric. 

We have had starlings nesting near the front porch several times.  One day I heard the sad sound of bird wings beating inside the front closet walls.  Later the dogs chased the baby starling who’d gotten into the enclosed porch.  After hours of trying to get food & water down it’s throat, Karl came home.  He took the bird outside & threw it on the roof as its parents watched.  I said = “Thanks For Throwing The Bird On The Roof.”   

136.  Know What You Want Girl
Whachuwant (Whachuwant?)
Are You A Girl?
Do You Know What You Want?
I want you to get it but first-
Tell me what it is stirs you up!

137.  Good To Get Away
Bill & Hillary Clinton conceived their daughter Chelsea at the Chelsea hotel.  I read that’s why Bill wanted to name his girl = Chelsea (Give her good weather on her wedding day- eh!).  Because he “knew” that’s where she was conceived.  & I read Hillary said they’d of had more kids if they’d taken more vacations.

Good To Get Away can mean a vacation, a three minute repose at your desk, an erotic fantasy.  I also read people who take a week long vacation every year live longer than those who don’t.  So take a deliberate = Good To Get Away = moment!!!

133.  Nightmare Dreamer
Yeasts and bacteria partying in the gut, emotions wailing in the mind, turbulence of the spirit all can create the Nightmare Dreamer.  This title works for a short story or a mood title for an instrumental.  I’ve read people with a lot of creativity frequently have “vivid” dreams.  Whoa!  Last night I had a couple doosies and this title popped up.  Here’s to a good night’s sleep+ Zzzzzzzzz…..

134.  Best of Everything
Fairy tales and myths are good for us.  It is actually healthy to believe in miracles.  It fuels our ability to hope.  When I say you deserve the Best of Everything, of course it is a metaphor.  But it is a true desire.  I do want you to have the Best of Everything.

130.  Tuck Me In (bed tonight)
Tuck Me In with words of love and a promise of forever.  Tuck Me In bed tonight with floral wafts from opened windows.  Kiss my forehead with lips that know the moon.  Breathe for me and your sound will be my lullaby.

131.  Beautiful Exaggeration
He is the most Beautiful Exaggeration of my knight in shining armor.  He only exists on paper or in my mind; perhaps behind the long velvet curtains at the ruffles of the stage.  His face if both feminine and male and he looks young.  His body is hard like a man.  His voice sounds like a piano crooning through open kitchen windows on a hot summer night.  And his eyes are green if ever a cat has green eyes.

127.  Big Time
1.  We’ll have a Big Time when the band begins to play.
2.  Get in the car babe.  I’m gonna’ take you to the Big Time.
3.  We’ve had a Big Time honey and now I gotta go.
4.  Put your sights on the Big Time - That’s how you learn to fly!
5.  She’s a Big Time mama really knows how to shake the floor+

128.  The Beer Hop
We’ve all heard of the Polish Polka, the Mambo, the Frog, the Swim, the Twist, the Tango, the various Waltzes, the Fox Trot, line dancing, the Margarita, the Funky Chicken, the Hokey Pokey, break dancing, and on and on = now let’s do The Beer Hop.  We drink 5 beers and then we hop around the room, all in a train line, holding onto the person in front of you via hands on their hips.  I once saw my husband pull a train on the dance floor in this fashion.  He even pulled the pretend whistle cord and made the Whooo Whooo sound of the engine.  He was onto The Beer Hop.  You be the judge

129.  Listen To The Dandelions
“Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale (yellow) North America

Positive qualities:  Dynamic, effortless energy; lively activity balanced with inner ease

Patterns of imbalance:  Overly tense, especially in the musculature of the baody, overstriving and hard-driving

The soul needing Dandelion essence feels a natural intensity and love for life.  Such individuals are compulsive “doers” who enter with great zeal and zest into many activities.  Unfortunately, they can over-plan and over-form their lives beyond the natural capacity of the body to sustain such intensity.  Furthermore, such persons may become unable to experience more contained moments of reflective activity.  The unexpressed inner life of the soul and the harsh demands on the body collide to create exteme tension, especially in the musculature.  The Dandelion flower teaches these individuals how to listen more closely to emotional messages and bodily needs.  As tension is released the soul feels more inner ease and balance, allowing spiritual forces to flow through the body in a dynamic, effortless way.”  Excerpt from Flower Essence Repertory by Patricia Kaminski & Richard Katz

124.  Sudden Urge
Baby Baby Baby, do-do do-do, do do
I got a Sudden Urge to look at you
Baby Baby Baby, wha-wha wha-wha, wu wu
Come over here and do me like you do
Baby Baby Baby, do-do do-do, do do
I got a Sudden Urge to get on with you 

125.  DISPLAY
We are moving from the printed word to the image.  Much emphasis is on the image with video production now a home experience and YouTube a phenomena vehicle to share your images with the world.  You are on DISPLAY my love.  The world is your stage.

126.  PROFIT
Drop a nickel in the juke box and someone makes a PROFIT.  You can PROFIT from my love - my love, if you’re smart enough to “get it.”  Oh … such sweet PROFIT as the sun sets over water.  I shall PROFIT from the planting of these seeds, opening this window, a sent e-mail, baking bread, writing this line, touching your lips, closing the door.  Such PROFIT I can barely hold the mother lode.

121.  Confuse The Issue
She loves me, she loves me not.  When deciding whether or not she loves you, best not to Confuse The Issue with your own assumptions.  Go on the facts.  What does she do?  What does she do?

122.  A Stinky Me Day
This is a memoir title!  Being an avid gardener I like a good sweat.  You sports people and hard working types know what I mean.  Showering is a good thing after a hot workout.  For those times the shower gets delayed, I’m having A Stinky Me Day.