Through previous albums, his love songs and narratives have grown ever more phantasmagorical, and now he's writing oracular meditations.

She said herself, with some self-mockery: "I write meditations in rhyme".

Lou Reed wrote philosophical meditations about prostitutes.

Steeped in the utopianism of Southern California's hippie culture, Mr. Browne wrote visionary love songs and meditations that had dark premonitory undercurrents.

Long after the fire of reform goes out, Richard Mitchell will still be writing "meditations on foolish language," about the nonsense of college presidents, grade school teachers, principals, educational policy makers and the like.

I also wrote other meditations upon divine subjects, such as occurred to me at that time and were profitable to myself, but not fit for any other view, and therefore I say no more of that.

Soon Puritan ministers like Edward Taylor began to write meditations in verse, based on lines from the Bible and on sense perceptions, both allegorical of the greater glory of God.

Chan Marshall, who records under the name Cat Power, writes forlorn meditations on love, death and loneliness with a few repeating guitar chords and melodies that build from gentle questions and observations to a sullen, determined insistence.

In addition to letters, Susanna Wesley wrote meditations and scriptural commentaries for her own use.

Chan Marshall, the leader of Cat Power, writes forlorn meditations on love, death and loneliness.