tag:cordcalling.com,2005:/blogs/creative-ponderings-poetry?p=3Creative Ponderings - Poetry2022-08-24T09:58:05-12:00cordcalling.comfalsetag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975552019-12-09T03:18:30-12:002022-05-10T06:21:45-12:00Description<p>This blog will now be a source of poetic expression by Denise Conway of Cordcalling, urging you and enticing you to read and respond to the works. This is poetry, with its unconventional uses of language, grammar, punctuation,...</p>
<p>Read..let it soak into your spirit..enjoy!</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975662016-04-24T12:00:00-12:002022-05-11T07:14:53-12:00Inside Out<p>I kept thinking there was a trap door</p>
<p>somewhere...and I missed something. How could it be that God would love me How could it be that He could see the mess that I have called my life but look at me as righteous and blameless in His sight? I am what I am I'll lay my head down and allow His Grace to abound... so that I can be who He has already made me.</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975652015-12-22T12:00:00-12:002022-05-19T19:54:17-12:00a Way in a Manger<p>a baby,</p>
<p>a Son,</p>
<p>a King,</p>
<p>a servant</p>
<p>a man</p>
<p>God.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>a birth</p>
<p>already born</p>
<p>a death</p>
<p>destined for</p>
<p> </p>
<p>a love that never fails</p>
<p>Truth that always prevails</p>
<p>a Way</p>
<p>to peace</p>
<p>to the peace </p>
<p>we seek</p>
<p>in the dark</p>
<p>"hidden" places of our souls</p>
<p>where we can't find rest</p>
<p>until we reach the end</p>
<p>of ourselves and seek</p>
<p> </p>
<p>a cross</p>
<p>predestined for Him</p>
<p>and for me.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975642015-12-13T12:00:00-12:002022-05-13T09:15:17-12:00words<p>I haven't written in a while,</p>
<p>My words have been sitting in a pile.</p>
<p>I've been in a pit,</p>
<p>but I'm getting out of it.</p>
<p>The Son has shone </p>
<p>His light on the mess</p>
<p>that lies all around me...but still He has found me -</p>
<p>with His still, small voice,</p>
<p>He whispers my name.</p>
<p>The name He knew </p>
<p>before He blew life into my being.</p>
<p>I don't have all the answers...</p>
<p>I never will.</p>
<p>That's why I need a Savior </p>
<p>and I need to be still.</p>
<p>Kill the lights - </p>
<p>I don't need another thought</p>
<p>I need true words</p>
<p>words that have already been written - but not stale.</p>
<p>Everything else pales</p>
<p>Everything else fails</p>
<p>in this dark world -</p>
<p>but His Word.</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975632013-11-15T12:00:00-12:002023-12-10T04:50:57-12:00The Smile<p>Do you know when it’s too late for tomorrow?</p>
<p>When you don’t have Grace</p>
<p>- Life is too short</p>
<p>Grace is the rain and the sun on my feet</p>
<p>As I run..It puts the smile on my face</p>
<p>Enduring pain. Pressing on. This is the sure-tell sign that I’m alive.</p>
<p>The lines of time tell where one has gone.</p>
<p>A line at a time..we step into our fate.</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975622013-10-12T12:00:00-12:002023-12-10T04:57:53-12:00Be still<p>I am squirming in the pit,</p>
<p>BUT – You are higher.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am digging through the earth</p>
<p>But, You are stronger.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am singing in the wind</p>
<p>You still hear me.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Climbing, climbing</p>
<p>a breath is perspiring</p>
<p> </p>
<p>A weight A scale</p>
<p>Heavy upon my back,</p>
<p>But no more found wanting</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am in The peace</p>
<p>I am in the house</p>
<p>I am in the family</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Even though there are only a few feet to the top of the mountain,</p>
<p>I laugh.</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975612013-07-22T12:00:00-12:002022-04-13T10:11:00-12:00Faith<p><span style="font-size: small;">Faith like a rock</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Faith like a rock</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">doesn't cower</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">It towers</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> over the tiny, <span style="font-size: x-small;">tiny</span>, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">tiny</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> ant hills</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> that are our circumstances</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">It stands still</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> when the earth shakes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">It climbs forward</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> It stands</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> It stands</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">when everything else falls.</span></p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975602013-07-04T12:00:00-12:002022-04-14T06:32:40-12:00heaven?<p><span style="font-size: small;">There's a lightness in </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">space that I don't understand..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gravity on Earth pulls everything to the ground - </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's heavy like sand.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">My heart ticks like</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">the water going down the bathtub drain.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">There's a cloud of madness,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">but I'm still sane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just love..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don't judge</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just hug someone who hangs her head.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are all flesh and blood,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Given life by the same benevolent Maker.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Give..It's not stolen..Live..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">It's not taken..heaven..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">heaven..Heaven..</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Where are you?</span></p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975592013-05-01T12:00:00-12:002022-05-19T18:06:07-12:00Illumination<p>The painted walls</p>
<p>say my name</p>
<p>- I love you</p>
<p>They're all the same</p>
<p>though the pattern reveals</p>
<p>a hand</p>
<p>delicate and firm.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I let it slide </p>
<p>back and forth</p>
<p>in my mind</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Allow me </p>
<p> to visit</p>
<p> the time when I loved</p>
<p> When I fell in love</p>
<p> and time and money</p>
<p> were nonexistent.</p>
<p>When waves of</p>
<p>worry dissipated into the</p>
<p>ocean of "Love Never Fails"</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975582013-04-04T12:00:00-12:002022-04-15T03:58:32-12:00You Won't Move Me<p><span style="font-size: medium;">You're trying to move me </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> out of this place of rest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I won't awake </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> from this dream</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I will undress</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> this godly sorrow</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> this peace</span></p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975572013-03-16T12:00:00-12:002022-04-15T07:03:27-12:00Here I Am<p>This is me.</p>
<p>I am an outcast</p>
<p>I am strong</p>
<p>I am a believer</p>
<p>I belong.</p>
<p>They are not me,</p>
<p>but are a part </p>
<p>I am wrong</p>
<p>when I go my way</p>
<p>but when I stay in Him</p>
<p>I know the way.</p>
<p>I am fallen,</p>
<p>but I've been risen.</p>
<p>Here..</p>
<p>is where I am.</p>
<p> </p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975562013-03-15T12:00:00-12:002022-04-19T06:23:40-12:00No More<p>I don't want to be any less</p>
<p>or any more </p>
<p>than He wants me to be.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>No less, No more.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I don't want to be the person who I want to be</p>
<p>Dying slowly, living well.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Lying low, standing high</p>
<p>I can see the creator who made me</p>
<p>for I can see written in the sky,</p>
<p>"'How much happier that [one] is who believes'</p>
<p>the whole world to be his/her native town than one</p>
<p>who cannot see beyond his/her own reflection". </p>
<p> </p>
<p>*Quotation adapted from Mary Shelly's <strong>Frankenstein</strong></p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975542013-03-04T12:00:00-12:002021-09-20T21:17:35-12:00Puncturing the Blackade<p>If you put a bunch of creative people together,</p>
<p>the individuals don’t seem so creative anymore.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Not that the light doesn’t get brighter</p>
<p> when many gather together,</p>
<p>but the star that stands alone</p>
<p> amidst black space</p>
<p> draws attention to the beauty it emblifies.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This Christian height of sight.</p>
<p> The low position of Christ</p>
<p> is where the line is drawn</p>
<p> between what I see</p>
<p> and what is real</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975532013-02-25T12:00:00-12:002013-02-26T00:58:25-12:00Spring Fever<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We have dreams,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are here for a purpose,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are not just pieces of dirt </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">to be stamped on and kicked around</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">like it doesn't matter</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">whether we are here today or gone tomorrow.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are witnesses,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are to be beacons of light,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">a city on a hill,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I scream out from the mountaintop</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">-not the ant hill they claim I live in.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's have some faith -</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">as little as a seed of grain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We can stand</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">when we know that we have fallen.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Grace - let it be known</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Throughout the Earth</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">that we are kings.</span></p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975462012-08-30T12:00:00-12:002012-08-31T07:47:47-12:00"Wicked Desires" featured on London's Driven<p>Our song, "Wicked Desires", off of our "Obsessed by the Light" CD will be featured on London's Driven in September, 2012. London's Driven provides a platform for London, ON's up-and-coming creative and professional community. It airs on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm on Rogers Television (Cable 13).</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975452012-04-12T12:00:00-12:002012-04-13T04:56:26-12:00Official Video Release: "Wicked Desires"<p><span style="font-size: small;">We are excited to be releasing our official music video for the song, "Wicked Desires" off of our "Obsessed by the Light" CD! The video is co-produced by Cordcalling and London, ON's own "Wreckless Crew Productions". It was also filmed and edited by "Wreckless Crew Productions". We will be presenting the video for the first time on a large screen at our Video Release Show on May 19, 2012 at Gigs Grillhouse in London, ON. At the show, will also be giving away a limited amount of free DVD copies for people to take home and enjoy!</span></p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975442012-02-14T12:00:00-12:002012-02-15T00:14:46-12:00Music Video for "Wicked Desires"<p>We're excited to be working on a music video for our song “Wicked Desires” off of our debut full-length CD “Obsessed by the Light”! The video is self-produced, along with London's own video production company, "Wreckless Crew Productions". The song has received a lot of positive attention, including obtaining radio airplay for the album on London's Best Rock FM 96's Indie Show and charting on CHRW Radio. We believe that translating our creative concepts for the song to a visual format will further its impact. We're grateful for this tremendous opportunity and are enjoying the journey!</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975522010-12-20T06:08:47-12:002011-03-14T20:50:38-12:00Radio Airplay<p>Cordcalling's song, "Wicked Desires", off of our new "Obsessed by the Light" CD, is receiving airplay on FM 96's Indie Show (London, ON). Please email Andrea Dunn, through the following link http://www.fm96.com/email/andreadunn.aspx</p>
<p>to request "Wicked Desires" by Cordcalling on FM 96's Indie Show, which airs every Tuesday evening.</p>
<p>Cordcalling's "Obsessed by the Light" CD is currently receiving airplay from London's Indie Station (94.9 FM) CHRW Radio. Please call 519-661-3600 to request our song "What I Have".</p>
<p>Cordcalling's music has been played on London's Best Rock FM 96. It is in regular rotation on CHRW Radio, London's Indie Station (94.9 FM), The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, on which it has made the top 30 charts. IndieCan has featured Cordcalling's music. It has also been played by college radio stations across Canada. Cordcalling has performed live on the A-Channel Morning Show.</p>
<p>We will update you as we are added to playlists and receive airplay from more stations.</p>cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975512010-11-22T06:52:46-12:002011-03-14T20:50:38-12:00Successful release of "Obsessed by the Light"We are so thankful to all of our fans, friends, and family who made our CD Release Party a success! Thanks also to James Reaney (London Free Press), Chris Montanini (The Londoner) and CHRW Radio for supporting us and promoting our album to the public!
The CD "Obsessed by the Light" is currently available for purchase at London, ON's Grooves Record Store. We will have it for sale online in the near future.cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975502010-11-05T21:28:32-12:002011-03-14T20:50:38-12:00Full-Length CD Release!Cordcalling are excited to announce the release of our first full-length CD "Obsessed by the Light"!
CD Release Party
London Music Club (Cellar Lounge)
470 Colborne St., London, ON
Doors: 7:30 pm
Opening Acts (The Randals and Kyle Peterkin): 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Cordcalling: 9:15 pm
Cover Charge: $3
Special discount price on the CD of $12 (regularly $15) at the CD Release Party ONLY!cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975492010-09-01T21:15:08-12:002011-03-14T20:50:38-12:00Mastering is Completed on our upcoming CDMastering of our full-length CD by Sounlab in New Jersey, US, is now completed.cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975482010-07-15T21:49:08-12:002022-04-19T01:05:05-12:00CD ProgressHey there,
We've finally finished mixing our CD at Charterhouse Studios in London, ON. We are excited to hear what the Mastering Engineers at the Soundlab at Disc Makers in New Jersey, U.S will do to our finished mixes! We'll keep you updated..cordcalling.comtag:cordcalling.com,2005:Post/59975472010-02-12T07:56:08-12:002011-03-14T20:50:38-12:00Tracking is finished on recording for our album release, Feb., 2010We are glad to say that we have finished tracking on all of our songs for our upcoming full-length album release. We are now embarking on the mysterious journey of mixing. After that, we are planning to have the album Mastered professionally. Excited!cordcalling.com