Rising from the Ashes

Finally Free

Fields of bones beneath the grain,
Ghosts still work the southern chain.
Smoke from cities, blood in rain,
Dollar signs tattooed with pain.

Bright clean flag waves above the barn,
Dreams embalmed in the graveyard.
Gold runs slick down the preacher’s sleeve,
Truth’s a wound you can’t believe.

American Maggot — chew and grow,
On the body you don’t know.
The light went some wars ago,
But the TV swears it’s a morning show.

American Maggot — hum that hymn,
Of rust and oil and seraphim.
You wear the crown, the rot, the sin,
And call it a resurrection.

Steel and shadow, glass and gun,
Children coughing in the sun.
ICE vans crawl where the workers run,
Freedom limps — the laws undone.

Church bells ring, don’t cure all,
All the empires learn to fall.
Blessed are these blind and numb,
Who burn the Earth for their kingdom come.

American Maggot — creep and feed,
On every broken prayer and creed.
The scar’s the only vote you need,
Waving on as the country bleeds.

Somewhere under Wall Street’s floor,
History whispers, “Never more.”
The gangrene won’t heal, it just keeps score —
While the Maggot eats the core.

American Maggot, Reprise

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

In the classical margam of bharatanatyam, the varnam is the recital’s centerpiece, its longest and most emotionally charged performance. In “Tome of Stars“, the varnam appears as the twenty-nine-poem section “Senescence”. Following the exaltation of Anthesis, the beloved as a celestial goddess, love now descends from the stars into the gravity of human frailty. 

This sonnet concludes the “Once Upon a Time” quartet by chronicling the poet’s ultimate failure to escape the psychic inheritance of his past. Framed in mythic diction and dark fairy tale motifs, the poem articulates the moment when the poet’s inner defects (learned self-betrayal, compulsive guilt, emotional paralysis), drive away the only force of redemption he has ever felt: the Stargirl. She departs not in tragedy but in judgment, her magical grace revoked. The tone is accusatory but inwardly directed; the poet owns his doom not as random misfortune, but as the inevitable result of a life shaped by shame and self-annihilating loyalties. This final rupture is mythologized as a fateful and irreversible exile from the light.

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Lyrics

A baleful hex, a yoke of darkest wight,
Ensnared his mind in chains of hateful lies.
This wrath of lunacy recoiled from right,
Lest he condemn himself in his own eyes.

Past cancer poisoned, through his spirit chewed,
Excreting slimes of toxic empathy.
The tears of others drowned all he breathed true,
Thoughts paralyzed by noxious sympathy.

Thus, Stargirl—magic’s child—arose in flight,
Aggrieved he loved her less than love’s just claim.
His heart, too frail to stand, too quick to blight,
She judged unworthy—pierced, forever shamed.

His doom complete, he reaped fate’s final spell.
Her light was gone. The portal shut. Night fell.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Once Upon a Time Part 4

25/17 "Корабль" п.у. Дмитрий Ревякин (Калинов Мост)

Юность

Золото - Магнит

Main:
Pavlo Mukha - vocals/ trombones
Andrian Popovych - vocals/ guitar
Roman Grechilo - bass guitar
Ivan Prokudin - drums/ percussion
Anastasia Il'kiv - piano/synth/ back vocals
Maria Yaremak - piano
Joseph Gorodyskiy -  drums/ percussion

Orange:
Maryan Kryskuv - guitar
Ostap Panchyshyn - stringed
Ilya Orlov - drums
DJ SHON - scratch (Kickit Records)

Recording:
Maryan Kryskuv (studio jenny records)
Oleg Moroz (studio frost magnetic)
Cai Caslavinieri - remix (studio FDR)

Mixing:
Ilya Orlov
Oleg Moroz

Mastering:
Maryan Kryskuv (studio jenny records)
Ilya Orlov 
Oleg Moroz (studio frost magnetic)
(studio FDR)


Sound producer:
Ilya Orlov

Producer:
Vitaliy Kovtun

Design:
Nestor Guk

13-й декабрь (Radio Version)

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