Love me like a natural disaster
Come closer and be my personal broadcaster
Show me your courage, show me how you brave my churning waves
Show me how well you dance to the rhythms of my tides
I'll show you colors you've yet to perceive when elements collide.
Cyclical in nature, ethereal in essence
Show me curiosity, how well you can pay attention
I'll show you a love of ever evolution, I come from different dimensions.
But yet, I'm just a human.
I am tiny, I am flawed.
Not too good at hiding, emotions exposed, raw.
Help me like me when I don't like me.
Don't just hold me close, hold me tightly.
Teach me things, ignite the fire of life in me
Allow my flames to embrace the coldest parts of your heart.
Show me that you're fearless,
Witness me, witness my wrath,
my fury, my pain.
Witness my joy over the littlest things and surely..
Witness me soften for you
Witness me unfurl for you like a brand new bloom
A vase of freshly cut flowers, I bring life into your blue room
Get my waters flowing, splashing
Tell me I'm not your favorite distraction.
Show me you're not afraid to get burnt by my passion
I'm a sadist, beg me for it, show me how you like the pain.
I don't believe your words anymore, show me how you're not afraid, show me the part of you that's...insane.
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Ashley Antunes
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Fake News
A poem written by me in 2020, as I was discovering my evolving sexuality later in life, amidst the chaos that unfolded that year. This is a swirl of a conversation between both myself, as well as the discourse around ignorant people who are intolerant to queer folks. For most of us, understanding our queerness and owning it can come with a lot of guilt and shame.
By Ashley Antunesabout a year ago in Poets
'20/20'
"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 Callaghan8 days ago in Beat
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well done