During my year of DOWN TIME, I like so many, have been cleaning out my closets, my drawers, my music files.
I have been traveling back in song-writer time to some of my oldies-but-goodies., looking for more BURIED TREASURES. And I came upon this one, which I had forgotten about, and upon listening, realized how very fond of it I am.
It is called THE OTHER SIDE OF MY HEARTBEAT.
A love song, of course.
Written and recorded in the 80’s…ye Gods…
and wonderfully sung by a very dear and talented friend of mine named Mara Getz.
It is a demo. The arrangement is definitely 80’s, (which, I have to admit, was my favorite music period.)
I challenge anyone out there, who likes this song, to re-make it and bring it into the 21st century!
So sit back, relax, and enter my WAY BACK MACHINE.
My poem for May
BECOMING
I think I shall become a rose
Velvet-crowned
Scarlet headed
A ball of silent fire suspended
Mummy-taut
Between sun and soil
Lanced to earth on emerald spear
Pulled to the eye-clear air-pure void of sky
By iron webs of light
Spun and spinning
From groin and beak of star spider
Sun sparrow
Stretched to screaming silent expectation
Leaves outstretched
Thorns tip-tilted
Waiting breathless
For Dawn’s hot tongue
Moon’s cool finger
To touch and stroke
To make my skull explode
In shrieks of color
Wails of perfume
Shameless
Silent shouting
I am no more a thing tight-closed
A promise in Springtime bud
I am at last a truth
Red loud, blood vulgar
Full-blown at last
I am become a rose
Happy May!
With Love & Music
Amanda
