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Nora

Dragging My Life Into a Dream

More Understanding Than a Man

Sofia I'm Sorry

Hollywood

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Laylow

all credits to julia jacklin and faye webster

Faye Webster & Julia Jacklin Sing Good Guy (live At The Gem)

“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: tomeofstars.net

The opening section of “Tome of Stars”, titled “Item 1: Anthesis”, comprises 21 poems that chronicle the emergence and flowering of a romantic relationship, structured around the botanical metaphor of anthesis, the period during which a flower blooms. 

“Kiss” closely mirrors "Synesthesia", more directly interrogating in verse the inadequacy of verse, considering the failure of poetic and lyrical traditions to adequately capture the transformative and overwhelming experience of the beloved. This time it is not her "twilight tapestry of hair", but the transformative experience of her kiss. The poem critiques conventional artistic attempts such as sonnets, ballads, and drama for being hollow or misguided when compared to the profound, lived experience of a single moment of physical intimacy. As with "Synesthesia", this sonnet layers multiple sensory registers, but it does so with a more pointed frustration at artistic insufficiency. The central kiss is presented as both a carnal and a metaphysical event that reorders perception and collapses distinctions between body, cosmos, and spirit. In the end, the poet is left speechless, gesturing only at an unnamed heaven born from this act.

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Lyrics

Dry husks of sonnets stutter vapid rhyme,
While honeyed ballads drone discord undue.
Blind actors fumble gestures meant sublime,
Insult a touch that makes one soul of two.

I’ve swilled renewal in spring’s blossomed breeze,
Smelled the sauce of summer on my tongue,
Caressed steamed symphonies of winter’s seas,
Heard achings of prismatic pelts fall flung.

But brush your lips? Remake creation’s face.
To breathe your breath transforms my faculties:
Your spice, the cosmic essence soused with taste,
My mouth bewitched with flavor, passion teased.

Our bond transcends the starsong gods enflamed—
A heaven birthed for which I know no name. 

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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

Kiss

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‘Here Lies Our Love’ is a 6 track EP that explores the stages of grief from a love that died.

It captures the full range of emotions; from the initial anger, to the introspective dismay, and everything in between when a once deep love leaves you drowning.

Represented through the raw lyrics fresh from a broken heart and poignant vocal deliveries, Wilted Flower’s music provides an emotional, atmospheric back drop to the detailing of loss of love and the difficulties it brings.

Beautiful, But Bleak

MGMT: indy@eastcitymanagement.com
LIVE: PLomas@wmeagency.com

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