Burn me at sunset and dance around the flames!
Bind my hands, no in fact, rip them off.
Make this escape the greatest feat of magic
That dared to flutter its butterfly wings
In any fool's lunatic mind.
.
Damn, drape me in the clouds saturated with the blood
Of this sanguine sunset draining the last of the sun.
I am hungry to dance in the sun's cloak
Beneath the fresh light of a blue moon
Hurtling back into Mother's arms.
.
The moon is crashing down tonight,
Ripped out of the black eyes of the night as though
It didn't hurt to lose the twinkle of madness.
I will swallow this falling moon like a pill,
Open my gullet, brace, and do like good boys do.
.
There is no longer any hiding from this lunacy,
This brand stamped across my chest in shimmering,
Holographic runes carved in moonlight
That spell out an ancient word, nyctophile.
Pluck the lonely tune on the guitar.
.
I never believed the moon would touch the rose
Seated upon my desk like a throne.
So mourn with me, the loss of lunar light
As the thorns sigh and settle into my thin skin,
Grieve the sanguine puddle soaking into the grass.
.
I want to be a moth with night sky eyes,
Crouched underneath pale petals,
Watching the moon occupy more of the sky.
Smoke and mirrors mean nothing to a god descending.
So I want to be a moth to sleep underneath the moon.
.
Fuck, let me hurl myself at the moon!
I am here in the shadow of the oak, yearning.
How I wish to be thrown into the moon,
Smack hard into its side in some sort of embrace,
And leave my mark on the sky like a sick lover.
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Silver Daux
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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Sizzling, sensual and out of this small world into the cosmos with Luna. BRILLIANCE!
From one devout nyctophile to another, this is very well-wrought; I think "I want to be a moth with night sky eyes," is an especially lapidary line.
The cosmic imagery in this is stunning! Love the lunar and lunacy entwinement!
Oooo, sanguine sunset and sanguine puddle, I especially loved that! Fantastic poem!
That's a powerful piece. Well done.