The Evening Post - Dave Tutin

Beneath my grandmother’s dining table I was captain of my own spacecraft ​ Or I was steering the entire house  like some ancient galleon through rough seas to safety ​ I sat between the crossbeams legs outstretched and imagined as many worlds as my young mind could imagine ​ All those adventures are lost to […]

I hope your Valentine’s Day is a little more optimistic than the one mentioned here. All the craziness – good or bad – is explained by our living in the beautiful prison.

34. It’s too late when we die To admit we don’t see eye to eye   – Mike + The Mechanics s Life it seems will always find a way to humble you defeat you or clothe you with regret ​ Today I learned a most painful lesson ​ When you discover someone died with […]

Sometimes the WISHING GROUND delivers. A song that, when you dig below the surface, is about optimism. ©2020 Dave Tutin / openDmusic

Ernest Hemingway once said, “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Many people think writing is something certain people choose to do. Believe me, it is not a choice. At times it’s like your head fills with words and the only relief is to write them down…be […]

I guess it’s bound to happen when you’ve been listening to songs as long as I have. A line jumped into my head and I could not for the life of me remember where I’d heard it. Then I realized I had not just heard it, I’d written it. It was in this song from […]

YESTERDAY’S EYES There’s a story to be told Of dark and dust But the story keeps on changing As all stories must History we know is part truth and part lies And I’m seeing it all Through yesterday’s eyes There’s a hero growing old With nowhere to go No battles to fight No bravery to […]

AN AMERICAN POEM   There is no Superman Crusader against crime Swooping down to save you Just in the nick of time   There is no Superman No hero made of steel Our fantasies are frail Our loneliness is real   There is no Superman In his bight red cape No one to stop the […]