Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Beautiful Thought

BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT - Written by Carroll Bryant



I just had a beautiful thought
You and me together forever and now
I think that I’m caught
Swimming in your sweet entreaty

I just had a beautiful notion
You and me dancing romantically
With all this emotion
Drowning in the ocean of eternity

Wrap your arms around me my lady
Lip to lip and let’s get crazy tonight
Two become one
The love and the fun

Wrap your heart around what I offer
Skin to skin and let’s fall together tonight
Two become one
The love and the fun

Girl, I just had a beautiful thought

Listen to me sweet
I pop the question
I can’t help but concede to your touch
I want you so much

Hear me good and know how to answer
Your love grows inside of me like a cancer
I can’t help what I want
I can’t get enough

I just had a beautiful thought
You and me together forever and now
I know that I’m caught
Swimming in the lust of your passion

I just had a beautiful sensation
You and me walking hand in hand
In God’s own creation
Drowning in the waters of fascination

Wrap your arms around me my lady
Lip to lip and let’s get crazy tonight
Two become one
The love and the fun
 
Wrap your heart around what I offer
Skin to skin and let’s fall together tonight
Two become one
The love and the fun

Girl, I just had a beautiful thought

Three times I ravish you
Over and over and over it’s true
Now I see with my heart what I must do
Over and over and over I want to love you

Just you

Hear me good and know how to answer
Your love grows inside of me like a cancer
I can’t help what I want
I can’t get enough

Listen to me sweet
I pop the question
I can’t help but concede to your touch
I want you so much

Girl, I just had a beautiful thought

To me you are a beautiful thought


Hard Knocks

HARD KNOCKS - Written by Carroll Bryant


It’s been a long time
I can’t get it out of my head
Words can be unkind
Like blue can be painted red

You keep spinning the truth
They keep spinning the lies
They keep blaming their youth
You keep rolling the dice
Bullies like what they say
And they like what they do
Don’t go wishing it that way
Someday they’ll be coming for you too

It’s been a wild night
And visions can replace the dark
It was a dog fight
But I had to defend my heart

Girls will run around town
While they play with their toys
Just like Patrick Brown
Likes to play with little boys
You can squeeze all the blood
From the palm of your hand
Hide behind your fake love
Or you can make your own stand

And in the mystery of life
You seek for wisdom and for something wise
The school of hard knocks always has classes
Morning, noon and night
They’re nothing but asses

It was a rough ride
Glad to see it finally end
No, you can’t hide
Behind a false prophet or friend

You keep spinning instead
They keep jumping the gun
They keep spinning their web
You keep them on the run
Bullies like what they say
And they like what they do
Don’t go wishing it that way
Someday they’ll be coming for you too

They will be coming for you

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Children Of The Flower Power

CHILDREN OF THE FLOWER POWER was my first published book. It took six months to write. I worked on it just about every day during those six months while working a part time job for Goodwill Industries. On average, I spent about six hours per day. Sometimes I would spend a couple of hours and others, I would work on it for ten to twelve and even up to about 16 hours on certain days. It depended on how much time I had on my hands.

My parents said I was obsessed with it. They may be right. I had so many good ideas streaming through my brain. Most of which I didn't even bother writing down. In fact, when I started writing it, I had about ten sheets of paper, both sides filled, of characters and scenes and things that were going to happen in the book. Many characters got left out. And many of the things I thought would happen, didn't. I only used about half of the notes. Once I got going with it, different things started to occur in the story. One thing always led to the next. I could see it in my mind like I was watching a movie or something. The characters really took on a life of their own. It was quite the challenge to work all of them into the book and to give them all a job. I think this is important to stories. Your characters must all have a job to do in the book. Or as I like to call it, a purpose. I really do not like putting characters into my stories who serve no purpose. I think this is one of the things many new authors do, they have characters in their stories that can leave the reader scratching their head and asking, "Why was this character in the story?" It also makes the story appear to be missing something.

The original idea of the book started one afternoon when I went to take a shower. I had a radio in the bathroom and I liked to turn it on and listen to it while doing so. The dial was set to an oldies station that played mostly 70's music and some 60's. No sooner did I step into the shower when the song, "Come And Get Your Love" by the musical group, Redbone, came on. The opening riff of the bass kicked it off and just as I stepped in the tub, with water splashing down on my face, I closed my eyes and saw the words flash CHILDREN OF THE FLOWER POWER.

I opened them quickly and boom! I got the idea to write about a thriving commune in the summer of 1969. The idea lingered in the back of my head for several years. During which time I was feeling uncomfortable about writing a book with nothing but hippies. I thought it would isolate my audience. Not to mention, I just couldn't put a story together that I liked. I wanted to showcase the "hippy" generation and their ideals without stuffing it down people's throat. I also thought it would be a good idea to introduce a new generation to those idea's left behind. This is when it occured to me that I could write about "old hippies". From there, Wesley Morris and Jennifer Kapshaw were created. Then came their daughter, Christine.

"But why stop there?" I began asking myself. Why not make them older and Christine could have a teenaged daughter of her own? This way, I could get yet another generation into the story. This idea appealed to me because it opened the door for some funny generation gap conversations and such. Then to make it even more snappier, I decided to throw in the fact that Christine grew up to be "anti-hippy" and move her to New York after high school where she could attend college and go into modeling. A most superficial job that would surely irk the mother, Jennifer Kapshaw. So that's what I did. This also made it more interesting for when Christine's daughter, Sally, would have to go there for the summer. Not only did I have the generation gap to play with, but the culture gap as well because Sally was born and raised in New York City, a far cry from the sleepy little town of Beddington, Maine.

It didn't take long for everything to start coming together. One character at a time, I saw them all coming to life in my head. The crazy antics everyone would be a part of, but most of all, the camaraderie of friends and family. The many different issues they each had to face and deal with. The manner in which they dealt with them. It soon became more than just giving the young generation a glimpse of the past, and turned into a three generation romantic comedy of fussing with each other and bumping heads. 400 pages of pure fun. By the time I finished, I realized, I wrote something more of a chick book than a hippy book.

Of all the books I have written to this point, Children Of The Flower Power remains the mosty enjoyable for me to write despite how long it took to do so. There were times when even I was surprised at what happened next. The characters took me for a ride. In the end, I think it came out great. A story that makes you laugh, cry and think. Not to mention, you get to learn a little bit about the "hippy" movement without it being slammed into your face. Everything just flows with the story through the characters themselves. 

 If you own an E-Reader, then by all means, you should check out Children Of The Flower Power. Feel free to let me know what you think if you do. I priced it at $2.99 so it could be affordable to everyone. Just click on one of the following links of the E-Reader that you own.

For Amazon Kindle users. Or maybe you own a Nook from Barnes and Noble. Some people may own a Sony Reader or perhaps you like to download your E-Books from Kobo or Copia. Or better yet, maybe from E-Book Pie. The choice is up to you. You may also use your i-Pad from APPLE if you own one of them. While some prefer to buy their books online from GARDNER'S BOOKS or BAKER AND TAYLOR. That is fine because you will also find my books there too.

Happy Reading! 


Monday, October 29, 2012

Carroll Absolom Bryant

I am Carroll Bryant. I am a poet, songwriter and author. As of the 3rd of January in the year 2012, I became a blogger. My original blog has a ton of stuff on it and has soared like crazy, eclipsing 225,000 page views in just its first ten months. After much debate, I decided to put together a second blog that will feature links to my books, songs, and all matters related to Carroll Bryant. I will also post my poetry here randomly as well as short stories and perhaps full length books that can only be read here.


I may also post pictures, photographs and drawings of my own creation. I will also post related material about upcoming projects I am working or or planning to work on. This is a blog dedicated to nothing but my work. To read more about my personal life, you might want to check in with my original blog "Carroll Bryant" by clicking the link above. (Original Blog) And follow me there.




I appreciate you following me, if you feel inclined to do so. I hope you enjoy my work. Feel free to leave a comment or otherwise say hello. Soon, I will be posting links to my books and my songs on my Youtube Channel called TheCarrollBryant so I hope to also see you there. This blog is a lot like life, a work in progress.

Thanks for dropping by.

Carroll Absolom Bryant