Scarlet staccato sunlight stiletto stabs my eyes
Tattooing through trees, a tap dance on a hardwood floor
The rhythmic beat reverberates through me
Like your hands on my body
Clouds slide through the sky, drifting faster than the years
And I breathe your tongue, lose myself in your lips
Memories of you echo in the marrow of my bones
The pull of the tide, the smile in your voice on my shoulder
The tips of your fingers, the tip of you
The center of me
Electric melting falling flying everythinging
pushing
pulling
Crashing high and low, ebbing, flowing, a paradox of stasis
The hush of the tide, over and over, near and far,
pushing pulling pushing
pulling, youintome
Always alwaysalways.
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Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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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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I don't consider this plagiarizing yourself! This is a totally different poem than the other. I actually like this one even more. 💜
ooo, Spicy!
Your poem crackles with visceral imagery and musical repetition—the “pushing pulling” refrain and lush alliteration (“scarlet staccato sunlight”) create a tidal rhythm that perfectly embodies your “paradox of stasis,” making longing feel both urgent and beautifully suspended.
Lovely
Great
Beautiful 😊