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.

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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)

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