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.
Featured piece of the day (poem or music or whatever). It's also in it's normal place; you can find it on the TOC below but you have to use the menu (top left) to get to it (or anything else).
RJM
9/27/23
The Same Amount of Sunlight
Are we all created equal? - kinda yes and kinda no
Do we each have some purpose? – well the Bible tells us so
Are we all supposed to be alike? - that would not work out too well
How much different is it okay to be? -before you’re damned to go to hell
Maybe we’re all on many spectrums from autism to the shade of our skin
And how fast we can run and how we think are determined before we begin
Maybe we’re all meant to be different without any shame or conceit
And what one lacks another fills in for so the whole body can be complete
All around us nature tells us that variation makes things thrive
So variety in our own species will help humans to survive
Maybe if we look to the heavens at how our planet moves in space
We’ll get some inspiration for how we should live in this place
We all get the same amount of sunlight but due to certain cosmic reasons
It can be the same amount each day or vary wildly with the seasons
If we all lived at the equator perhaps we would all be the same
But we’d miss out on so much beauty it would be an awful shame
Let’s all use the sunlight we’re given to make the world a better place
And be thankful for each other without regard for gender or race
We’re all just human beings sharing this heaven we call earth
And we should be grateful for each other because each is of great worth
RJM
9/27/23
The Same Amount of Sunlight
Are we all created equal? - kinda yes and kinda no
Do we each have some purpose? – well the Bible tells us so
Are we all supposed to be alike? - that would not work out too well
How much different is it okay to be? -before you’re damned to go to hell
Maybe we’re all on many spectrums from autism to the shade of our skin
And how fast we can run and how we think are determined before we begin
Maybe we’re all meant to be different without any shame or conceit
And what one lacks another fills in for so the whole body can be complete
All around us nature tells us that variation makes things thrive
So variety in our own species will help humans to survive
Maybe if we look to the heavens at how our planet moves in space
We’ll get some inspiration for how we should live in this place
We all get the same amount of sunlight but due to certain cosmic reasons
It can be the same amount each day or vary wildly with the seasons
If we all lived at the equator perhaps we would all be the same
But we’d miss out on so much beauty it would be an awful shame
Let’s all use the sunlight we’re given to make the world a better place
And be thankful for each other without regard for gender or race
We’re all just human beings sharing this heaven we call earth
And we should be grateful for each other because each is of great worth
Table of Contents (press the MENU 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
- Manifest Destiny (What Keeps Me Up at Night)
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