Viola

Reading makes us wise, what they tell us anyway, hold my head up high, from the mountain breeze, brings memory of his ways, mighty rivers unleash, love to billowing skies, join the mighty waves, i could gaze and die, I'm telling you baby, tears stream across my face, you're a fool to leave me, threshing in the night, burning ancient flames, our paths gone from sight, a necklace holds my keep, makes me seem a lady, I gave you choices creep, set my heart ablaze

Ulani

If nothing scares us by day, how can we be happy, when night times rage, we are never alone, but it takes such energy, God tells us so, we all know some say, what's fate or destiny, but then who ascertains, living here among the bones, Americans don't do uncertainty, women and men finely honed, celebrate softly by the way, departed hollow fraternity, my moods calmed by rain, different from Mrs Jones, who would want to state, be witness to and condone, what's done in my name.

Thomasina

If we're good we'll address, love we're holding still, toil by water to confess, take the time to pray, how we'll eat our fill, let others mend our aches, strange days land at rest, our eyes beyond the hills, help us face such duress, deserts bode an empty fame, a sextant makes us shrill, dancing sight of sea again, God will find us blessed, our ship's waiting thrill, a flight to change address, no more fear than gain, nighttime proves our skill, fix our battered sails, hope you cannot kill.

Suzie

She dances without asking why , it's what she likes to do, gives it one more try, all the love she's shown, comes blowing back to you, makes it one last throw, worms beneath her feet deny, fishing baskets are their due, everyone has the same right, and the lover she's outgrown, no more hides at truth, warms its own cold bones, are there any easy nights, other than doodle doo, bankers hang you out to dry, won't go back to loans, her bond's beyond the sky, done with strutting moaners, shipwrecks of design.

River

If you would only see, in this strange slattern light, ballast carries no sympathy, cough from a cigarette throat, look up at swollen skies, why let drink keep you afloat, it won't stand scrutiny, this somehow baleful plight, a waste of God's sympathy, when you travel the coast, find what's lost at night, not a wind that chills you most, this latest trip's no guarantee, between you and lost rights, how you want to be, you knows that it's toast, to eschew dreams even slight, Cmon now gather your boat, laugh at running tides.

Queenie

Without a cent or Dime, i don't like who I've been, now I'm just fine, I've chewed on many bones, darkness filled my dreams, guilt would bring it home, first remedy is good wine, wear skirts below the knee, never mess with trash designs, had my dealinngs to atone, it never set me free,. forgiveness runs up my nose, just gather up my crimes, a gift to make serene, bale them with blue twine, pass to someone full of hope, like an angel from the sea, every day brings new scope, laughter's my sense of ease. I mean it this time, create my own third degree, I really have to try.

Patricia

The nurses sneer at jokes, more than say go home, skim our path with stones, i check the light again, wonder where we'll go, escape this awful rain, each week the wind blows, where we sleep in shadows, no one heeds the scarecrow, we listen for daily trains, hear their empty echoes, commuters circle our lanes, when sunlight heats the bones, we tend to swim below, pockets full of notes, the future's not to blame, it's a gambler's last throw, don't really feel the shame, fire burns at our toes.