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May 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

Buried Treasure – May’s Gem

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

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