lady of fire poetry original w/otispacific bass

vocals: Tanisha
synth: Tanisha
bass: Robert
mastering and mixing: Tanisha

No One

To marinate.
in the warm opacity
0f then.
return to the black succulence.
when oblivion wore on you so well.
Your face was the night 
gleaming with hefty stars.
You being infinity feeding.
what prize is this?
beneath this eternal veil.
for the eyes that have kept you awake
belong to you and no one.

No One

New video here:
https://youtu.be/bQMmujwBHKE

A Dozen Kisses

I am awake love
watching you
dream between
the soft moments
you are deity
to me
my naked shrine of glory
I have sent you
a dozen kisses on
your way to
the moon
so dream sweet
my love
until I return to
greet you in
the dearest
slumber...

A Dozen Kisses(now with video)

Lady of Fire Poetry reciting poem by Derek Walcott

Love after Love
by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

Mabon Remix Project by Hell Feeder
Original Track and Art by Hell Feeder
@hell-feeder

Lyrics and vocals  -  Lady of Fire Poetry

Original Track Link
Hell-feeder – Mabon

Playlist Link (More artists are being added as soon as possible)
soundcloud.com/hell-feeder/sets/mabon-remix-project

Information at this website
hellfeeder.com/mabon

The celebration of the Autumnal Equinox, Harvest Home, Mabon, the Feast of the Ingathering, is a modern Pagan ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and the God during the coming winter months. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology. Among the Sabbats, it is the second of the three Pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas / Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain. (Source Wikipedia)

Hell Feeder shared our track Mabon to remix with a number of invited artists from Soundcloud. These artists were handpicked simply because we were big fans of their creative output.

Hell Feeder - Mabon (Lady Of Fire Poetry Remix)

Lady of Fire original poetry with holy shitshow music

I'm honored to be on a track with holy shitshow. Please do what you will. If you need stems...go here for his awesome music as well: https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648

Blessing Face

I saw them
working as
old schlepps
like you or me
postering as
flawed and human
but I know
they walk perfect
upon the earth  
ordained in shrouds
of shimmer
upon them
and when you are
not looking
they sing of
liberation
between
the moments
while blessing your
face with God

Blessing Face (an open collab) w/holy shitshow

Go get you some RIZLIX. He is quite the musical genius:
https://soundcloud.com/rizlix

Here is the original track:
https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire/sea-gypsy

RiZLiX Ft. Lady Of Fire Poetry - Sea Gypsy

Lady of Fire Poetry

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold." Bob Marley

Who made you believe
In idleness
At the expense
Of another
At the cost of people with
Unfortunate skin
in gradient hues
of warmth and Sun
Breathing in small
fatalities
Who told you to
Reap from their sweat
So you could betray
Them with ease not
Getting dirty
to watch
The prosperity of your
paper bag profits
You have murdered them
In cold blood while
Farting on your futon
The American Dream
Has left you bloated
crashing like a burning zeppelin
to the unforgiving ground

drums/bass(TR-808)- Tanisha Jackland
vocals- Tanisha Jackland



If you need vocal stem, please inquire within! They will have effects on them.

Crimes Against Humanity (open collab)

A lady of fire poetry original re-mastered

vocals-Tanisha Jackland
music bass, keyboards - Otispacific  https://soundcloud.com/otispacific

Kundalini Heat

Hot surge
In our bellies
We dipped from 
cherried shores

Tongues raw 
from the singe 
of hunger 
We paused between 
each satiated strum

Our sighs melted
between each breath 
We bit into the 
veins of
Our longing
And died
dripping from 
our mouths

In Sanskrit, kundalini means "coiled snake" and references the ancient belief that each person carries "divine" energy at the base of the spine. ... Kundalini mediation was popularized in the West by Yogi Bhajan, who developed and introduced his own form of Kundalini yoga in the United States in the late 1960s.

Kundalini Heat

A Lady of Fire original

Video link:
https://youtu.be/v_nYmllWql0

Beat- OtisPacific
Synth & vocals, lyrix - Tanisha (aka Lady of Fire)

All's Well
You have become a dull ache in the center of my chest.  We have grown tall weeds between us. In bed you go fetal whenever I come within arms reach. failing to connect.  I am left alone with the chill of your silence as it mocks me sleepless in the echoes of the night.

peace alms

All's Well (with video)

We have been guilty
when the mind takes over

heed the human debris

but let the ego    go

it does not need
to be taken hostage

OR

Smacked in the face

lend a soulful ear, instead

don't test the waters just yet

see it 
for the ego wants to 
be seen

then proceed 
with extreme caution

until you feel the 
depths of your being
anchor you

let go

move in the heart

Then

every action 
will be exactly what 
is needed

let the cleansing of 
time wash over you
and move in peace

lady on vocals and kaossilator
otispacific on nubass

Gain the World

For Women Who Are Difficult To Love
By Warsan Shire
Recited by Tanisha Jackland (lady of fire poetry)

you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name
you fill his mouth
his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head
and you tried to change, didn't you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do, love
split his head open?
you can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.

For Women Who Are Difficult To Love by Warsan Shire

Lady of Fire Poetry original music & poetry

New video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzW5SQfq4U

Kaossilator pro+, vocals, arrangement: Tanisha Jackland
Kaoss pad: Robert Jackland
mix, mastered by Tanisha Jackland

Blessed are the Women

They'd rather we hide
our magic
underneath the stones
thrown at us
to keep us quiet and
away from our power

But we are
everywhere

In the fire you burnt us
to be reborn again
from the soot

In the air you suffocated us
to wax and wane again
with the breath of the moon

In the water you drowned us
for our
lungs to cradle us again

In the earth you buried us to
grow again like seeds from its
precious womb

bandcamp

Blessed are the Women

God & Goddess help us. This track is to remind us that democracy costs something. It ain't never been really 'free'. So go out there and make yourselves heard (nonviolently, of course)and do your children a favor which is our duty as caretakers of this Earth to stand up for the voiceless, for the down-trodden, for the marginalized, and basically, for the people of this planet. Keep hope alive!

Here's the original track where the sample is taken from:

The awesome Viola Davis' Women's March speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5ONxQxQu8

Breathe Free (with free download)

lady of fire poetry and music and video 

Here is the official music video for "Earth Child":
https://youtu.be/o4zID_01fvY

Earth Child
I am my own medicine
the poison is me
but I am not bound
by my word
for the sky is me
as well as the scent
from a wild flower
when you see me
I am also the mountain
you cannot move
to know my strength
is happiness
in the elements of earth
to know I am the still
water flowing
is peace
I am calm

arturia key step 37/ableton live: Tanisha Jackland
mixed and mastered by Tanisha Jackland

Remember Me

Music and vocals by Tanisha Jackland
*Nanobox synth(Lemon Drop)

Little Black Matchstik Girl

No locks of gold she would have worn
Nor fair in skin she would adorn

Every time she rose to speak
No ears to listen how they sleep

No one cared for the girl with naps
How she read you like a map

She had issues with her self
All of them on a dusty shelf

For everyone to judge and see
Her human flaws plauging thee

With no one there to help her plight
Her body began to dim in light

when she died in dark and cold
No one knew her depth in soul

Who was a fire that warmed the old
A golden angel you would behold

"Love hard. Get your heartbroken. Laugh. Cry. Suffer. Explore. Wear your scars with pride. Allow life to teach you in mysterious ways. Risk it all. Put your heart on the line. Fall down. Get back up no matter what..." -Evan Sanders

Little Black Matchstik Girl

Music by Chad Lawson entitled "Paper Shadows" https://soundcloud.com/chad-lawson

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

Kissing in Vietnamese
by Ocean Vuong https://poets.org/poem/kissing-vietnamese

My grandmother kisses
as if bombs are bursting in the backyard,
where mint and jasmine lace their perfumes
through the kitchen window,
as if somewhere, a body is falling apart
and flames are making their way back
through the intricacies of a young boy’s thigh,
as if to walk out the door, your torso
would dance from exit wounds.
When my grandmother kisses, there would be
no flashy smooching, no western music
of pursed lips, she kisses as if to breathe
you inside her, nose pressed to cheek
so that your scent is relearned
and your sweat pearls into drops of gold
inside her lungs, as if while she holds you
death also, is clutching your wrist.
My grandmother kisses as if history
never ended, as if somewhere
a body is still
falling apart.

Kissing in Vietnamese

RiZLiX is a phenomenal person and a fine musician.

Working with him was a dream!

Find him here: 
https://soundcloud.com/rizlixcollabs

And here:
https://soundcloud.com/rizlix

Tin Woman
I feel my age these days
bones creaking
the need to be well-oiled
like some kind of
tin woman
all rusted
my metal parts
need refurbishing
then I could
have a new body
without dying
Be all bionic
and built like
a brickhouse again.

Tin Woman feat. RiZLiX

Lady of Fire Poetry. original music, too!

Headphones encouraged!

vocals, nanobox (razzmatazz & lemon drop), humming-Tanisha
Lyrics-Tanisha 

Bare Green Earth

Today 
I will put 
these aging 
feet on the bare 
green Earth 
again.

I will close my eyes
and feel the verdant energy
traverse thru my legs 
up to the column of my spine

restoring 
the fractures 
in my soul.

Born organic
I belong to the Earth.

waking
the pure intelligence 
within my body
in order to
find its way 
Home.

Bare Green Earth

Original poetry

Headphones encouraged!

Symbols are important in poetry. Just as water and the moon are symbols for woman or the feminine and how we should show reverence for Her. Thank you for listening and sharing this musical poem.

vocals-OtisPacific
vocals, vocoder-LoF (Tanisha)

The Moon is Ours

She is ours
All of us
The soft opening to
the woman
Inside you 
weeping
Like the tides
Moving dark and
Clutching your veins
To make you bleed
When she is heavy and bright
the laughter will come to
break you
madness swelling
You will never know 
Her completely
The wait for Her in wonder
If you are lucky
You will meet Her 
Liberating you 
Doused as lit
Dressed in your dreams

The Moon is Ours

Please give K.M. Ende a hand! And check out more. fabulous sounds this person has produced here:

https://soundcloud.com/km_ende

Original poetry of LoF aka Tanisha Jackland



Breathe fire

but do not get burnt

She waits to see you
consumed by that

for you will be the ash
and not the wind
blowing away
the
embers of bigotry

She devours those unjust

Will meet them
by the stake of their
own hatred

separating divinity
from the bone with
gavels of fire

particles in the Sun
Dust hanging in the air
Like
blasphemy

Breathe Fire 🔥 Feat. K.M. Ende

K. is a treasure and highly fulfilling working with her. Please visit her masterpieces that are her musical creations...

https://soundcloud.com/km_ende

Original poetry:

Slumming

You were wrong again, mistress.
How many times the delusion
Oh, Queen of the Universe.

With your forgotten
bag of stars
left somewhere
on the train to Utah.

They'll never know
you lived on Venus and
loved for eternities.

But now here you are
feigning mortal on
a big blue ball.

Rolling your eyes at
white bread and to a man
called Jesus.

Slumming feat. K.M. Ende

Come enjoy the fine musical landscapes of K.M. Ende.  Words by Lady of Fire Poetry

I am truly honored to work with such an amazing talent.  She does everything music with such ease and control.  Again working with her was a treasure and a delight!
Visit her channel here:
https://soundcloud.com/km_ende

The Art of Breaking

take this
my face
Let it crack
gently upon
the surface of
my skin
All good things
go broken
once in awhile
but do not throw me
away as if I am
useless
I speak with medicine on
my lips
my touch
a warm healing balm
Don't throw me away
I have gold in my veins
my mind a silver locket
with kintsugi prayers to
mend your heart...

The Art of Breaking Feat. K.M. Ende

I love collaborating with K.M. Ende! She is a pure musical genius and one of my favorite collaborators. 

Enjoy her fabulous tracks here:  https://soundcloud.com/km_ende

Belly Deep

You are made
from the marrow 
of the profundity
of bones
living without the
Certainty of vision
But the promise of 
Eternal life
You are the primordial soup
Of your own making
Eat wisely and reap
from 
the belly deep.

Belly Deep Featuring K.M. Ende

A Lady of Fire original

Skin Folk

She reminds me
Soul has no color
it emanates from the sum
of life
as a vibrant symphony
of you

Those sole regrets
and moments revealing
themselves as
the bone truth

We are organized
of sound
and gravity

pulling us closer to
the source of divinity
we sometimes
forget

808, Micro Freak, vocals: Tanisha Jackland

Skin Folk

Lady of Fire original poetry

sampling, arrangement, vocals: Tanisha Jackland

They never forget.

How Stone Remembers

The memory of 
the stones
are in the dead and
hidden near the 
roots of trees.

The stone remembers
by telling on us 
our unwise ways.

How we walk 
the earth like
sullen gods
disregarding deity 
ridden promises.

The stone remembers
but not like us
holding grudges
and peering into
madness...

The Way Back

How Stone Remembers

Take heed
in the world
on the planet
in the ecosystem
move mindfully
in the world
be kind
to your brother
to your sister
to the boys
to the girls
love one another
like your neighbors

Lady of Fire Poetry original
sampled by Tanisha Jackland

Two Step Planet

It was an honor collaborating with B. Word...His vocals are always so mesmerizing and soulful.

Here is the fine original that inspired me so:

https://soundcloud.com/lordbword/drown-no-more

Please listen to more of his great music here: https://soundcloud.com/lordbword

Thank you for sharing your world with me.

Lyrics:

On this plane
we are flesh
made from real tears
and freshly spilt blood
we feel the incisions
to the bone
of everyday assaults
some minor
spoken words
some monumental
trauma that leaves
us stifled in our tracks
it's more than a dream
and more like a
never ending nightmare

Drown No More feat. B. Word

On Death (the video): https://youtu.be/sYlG6aXzOCY
read by lady of fire poetry

Excerpt from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of Death.
     And he said:
     You would know the secret of death.
     But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
     The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
     If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
     For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

     In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
     And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
     Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
     Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
     Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
     Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

     For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
     And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

     Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
     And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
     And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

On Death

Pleasure working with B. Word again. He is so talented and gracious. I am so honored to collaborate with him.

Check out his profile here: https://soundcloud.com/lordbword

This track is about living your truth in times of struggle and seeking enlightenment.


Headphones encouraged! :)


mastering, music and vocals by b. word
vocals and arrangement by lady of fire poetry

Above All Feat. B. Word

"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time." Jean-Michel Basquiat

I'm usually in the musical kitchen cooking up my own sound. I love collaborating and have collaborated with many great musicians here on SoundCloud. If you are interested in cooking up something great, then give me a holler!

Never forget.

And a BIG thank you to anyone who has ever listened, commented and shared my music.  I appreciate you immensely.

Lady of Fire Poetry

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