RJM Unlimited
Poet, Lyricist, Father, Wonder Lover, Hopefully Kind Person
This website includes the poems and songs and musings of Robert J. McBride. The poems speak for themselves. The songs help the poems find their voice. The musings are just that and cover a variety of subjects; some are amusing and some are not. The songs are the result of collaboration with family or friends who have musical talent and can make songs using my poems/lyrics and occasional melodies. The collaborators have included golf buddies (nicknamed “Unplayable Lies) as well as my son-in-law, Jason Baskin, and my daughters, Amy Baskin and Maureen McBride. My wife, Jackie, also provided her talents. However, the main contributor has been my friend and song-writing partner, Rob Volpintesta of Angel Thorne Studios in Bethel, CT. Finally, there is a children's book at the end which was inspired by our daughter, Sally, and was brilliantly illustrated by Jason Baskin as well as a few short stories.
My deepest gratitude to those who collaborated to make the songs happen. And thanks to anyone who listens to the songs or reads the poems or musings or children's book or short stories. I hope you like them.
Table of Contents (press the list icon on the upper left next to RJM UNLIMITED to get to the contents)
Music Videos (not really videos; just the words with a few pics here and there)
Music w/o Videos (The lyrics are under the songs)
Poems (they must be poems; they rhyme)
Musings (Some things to think about)
Children's Book
Short Stories (New for me but I'm having fun and sorting some things out)
Music Videos (not really videos; just the words with a few pics here and there)
- Division
- Life is Art
- AI
- Ends and Means
- A Colorful Song
- Not As Good As You
- We're All Fools
- Life Is Fatal
- One Great Life
- Planning Ahead (Future Tense)
- Not Bad People
- Sally Anne
- My Gal
- Fertilizer
- Naïve Song
- Addis
- The Curtain
- Pictures (Instrumental)
- Pictures
- Slow Green
- Long Distance Time
- Prime Time Choice
- Not Short on Longing - Her/Him
Music w/o Videos (The lyrics are under the songs)
- I Could Have Been Great
- Mix It Up and Shake It
- Chances
- Causes
- Bred Alone
- Daft
- Wouldn't Trade
- Talia Anne
- Attraction
- Mama
- Regrets
- Not Thirsty Anymore
- Devoid
- Malibu
- Moving On
- So Much To Gain
- Lucky (In Love)
- Wind, Earth, and Sky
- Competition
- Going Sixty
- California Cate
- Philosopher's Lament
- Life
- Time Walks
- Wasted Time
Poems (they must be poems; they rhyme)
- Artistic Freedom
- Anti-Procrastination
- Going Back to Ground Zero
- Brain Dread
- At War With God
- An Act of Contrition
- Relativity
- Capricorn to Cancer
- Dual Duel
- Oh, My God ... Oh My, God
- For Give and For Get
- Cosmic Currency
- Revelations
- In Pursuit
- Not Buying It
- Callous Cruel Lies
- Rx for Commercial Suckscess
- Ba Da Bing (A Modern Love Story?)
- The New Economy
- Religion Isn't Worth a Damn (Loaves and Fish Sticks)
- Anti Christ
- Power Ball
- Attack on America
- Social Progress
- Farmer Otto
- Randy Link
- Class Act
- Equal and Opposite
- Loud To Be an American
- Good News, Bad News
- Tense
- Legacy of Love
- Responsibility
- A Brief History in Rhyme
- Sports
- Poetic License
- Golfer's Blues
- Sir Cumference
- Trees
- Fading
- Just Because
- The Big Test
- Contemplation
- Bwa Bwa Book
- Memes to an End
- I'm a Poet
- Coaxing Out the Spark
- Daynight
- Brain Drops
- Taps
- Here To Be
- Like Hell
- Empathy and Kindness
- Frustration and Rage
- Pretending
- Building an Inheritance
- The Same Amount of Sunlight
- Angry Artists
- Ode #1 to 3
Musings (Some things to think about)
- The Initial Musings cover such diverse topics as the creation stories, the theory of relativity, and the international date line. There are a few poems and pictures mixed in to provide a little light relief from the heavy subjects and tedious prose.
- Subsequent Musings address Fundamental Divides in the way our nation views political issues, my views on religion and spirituality in God Is Love, and my dream of a new and better political party called Responsible Party. There are also some thoughts on the state of politics and power in the world and in America mulled over in Power Struggles. And Christianity is considered in The Tangled Web. A similar musing is titled Creation Stories and Their Impact.
Children's Book
- The Gdoodledoo (Pronounced like Ga-doodle-do)
Short Stories (New for me but I'm having fun and sorting some things out)
- Fruber's Theory - (How the Multiverse Was Discovered)
- The Holiday Conversation