If a Story of Heaven by Poetry Orchestra: Alexis Rhone Fancher (EIC of Cultural Weekly, an award-winning poet, Los Angeles, California)Billy Lamont (An award-winning poet, Long Island, New York)David Dephy (An award-winning poet, Long Island, New York). The track has been recorded in New York and in California by us, on 5/5/21. Mixed by Saphileaum / Poetry Orchestra, New York. 


IF A STORY OF HEAVEN

DAVID DEPHY
They were looking at the storks right there.
Twilight encircled them.

BILLY LAMONT
 “If a story of heaven were true, 
would I become a believer?” 

DAVID DEPHY
he asked her.

ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
“We can only go with love in this life,” 

DAVID DEPHY
she said.
The sun was going down, sinking under the Queensboro Bridge. 
He thought of all the ideas that maybe he, or maybe they left undone. 
He kissed her. 

BILLY LAMONT
 “Time passes as time does,” 

DAVID DEPHY
he thought.

ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
“So much behind us,” 

DAVID DEPHY
she whispered in his ear. 

ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
“Still far to go.”

BILLY LAMONT
 “What we’ve left behind as the sun dips down low,” 

DAVID DEPHY
he kissed her again and the stork flew up.


David Dephy
August 18, 2020


IF A STORY OF HEAVEN

They were looking at the storks right there.
Twilight encircled them.
“If a story of heaven were true, 
would I become a believer?” he asked her.
“We can only go with love in this life,” she said.
The sun was going down, sinking under the Queensboro Bridge. 
He thought of all the ideas that maybe he, or maybe they left undone. 
He kissed her. “Time passes as time does,” he thought.
“So much behind us,” she whispered in his ear. “Still far to go.”
“What we’ve left behind as the sun dips down low,” 
he kissed her again and the stork flew up.


David Dephy
August 18, 2020
New York

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Poetry Orchestra - If a Story of Heaven

The track The Moroccan Curtain (by Maryam S. Alikhani)has been recorded in New York and New Jersey by Maryam S. Alikhani and David Dephy on 10/14/21. Mixed by Saphileaum / Poetry Orchestra, USA.

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Maryam:
I follow the rainbow beams of sun 
through the crystals of my Moroccan curtain.
I rise like the last woman on the earth. 
David:
The Robin on the sill 
has a message from Amherst, from Emily.
The window is lonely
You should open your society.
Maryam:
I unwrap the present.
 “Sobh bekheir, Aziz.”
David:
 “Good morning, dear.”

MSA / DD
NJ / NY

Poetry Orchestra - The Moroccan Curtain

Poetry Orchestra. The track Speed Forth the Darkness (by Stephen Frech) has been recorded in New York and Illinois by Stephen Frech and David Dephy on 10/24/21. Mixed by Saphileaum / Poetry Orchestra, USA. 

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Speed Forth the Darkness

Stephen Frech --

There is time enough—
in the ruins, the arch still holds.
A tree has taken root
among the stones.
The oracle bones
in fragments
now predict
the still uncertain future.
We are fishermen
drawing in our nets
from calm waters,
oracles of what is.

David Dephy --

Why hurry, darkness?
We have nets to mend,
catch to sort,
and a line from a poem I love
is playing over and over again in my head.

SF / DD
IL / NY
2021

Poetry Orchestra - Speed Forth the Darkness

Poetry Orchestra. The track #22 (by Lucas Hirsch) has been recorded in New York and Haarlem / The Netherlands by Lucas Hirsch and David Dephy on 11/4/21. Mixed by Saphileaum / Poetry Orchestra, USA.

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#22

LUCAS HIRSCH-

Can you starve in a city of millions
without anybody noticing?
Today I met somebody
who was licking his finger
I can’t remember him
I sing a song of la-da-dee-la-dee-da
And what about the birds, poet?
They never had anything to do with poetry
They only fly to be on the move
The rest is fabricated by poets

DAVID DEPHY-

This way I don’t mistake the chemical nature of love

LUCAS HIRSCH-

The sea is no more than a wet manipulator
To and fro, here nor there, ebb and flow

DAVID DEPHY-

How did it get this dark?

LUCAS HIRSCH-

I unscrewed the light from its socket and hid it
in the kitchen drawer under the sink
See, no poetry at all
The hunger stays

Poetry Orchestra - #22

DON’T LISTEN TO THAT NOISE

~ for my mother


Look at me, don’t listen to that noise 
beyond the wall, look at me, say a word, 
any word, I still hear your voice 

from that divine side of alone— 
where we all will be born again, 
don’t be nicely listless, don’t be 

silent, don’t be afraid, don’t follow 
that noise right before dawn, all the lilac 
shadows dwell in the end of the road, 

changing that end into the fleeting glimpse 
of transforming blaze right from your heart, 
from the other side of light, don’t listen 

to that noise, and before you’ll reunite 
hold on for a second, shadows are their own 
masters, on the soundless side of alone, 

but seconds are now gone, and light all 
around vanishes in a void, remembering 
my smile in your distant heavenly eyes.


David Dephy
January 21, 2023
New York City

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January 30, 2023 New York

DON'T LISTEN TO THAT NOISE BY DAVID DEPHY

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POETRY ORCHESTRA
THE SONGS OF THE AMERICAN PROPHETS 
 
1 - THE NEW MOON WRITTEN BY DAVID DEPHY PERFORMED BY KASSANDRE RUNYAN / AARON FISCHER / DAVID DEPHY
2 - SILENCE ON BAY SHORE WRITTEN BY DAVID DEPHY PERFORMED BY RONALD R. BREMNER / DAVID DEPHY
3 - LIPSTICK WRITTEN BY PATRICIA CARRAGON PERFORMED BY PATRICIA CARRAGON
4 - IF YOU KNOW WRITTEN BY DAVID DEPHY PERFORMED BY JOSHUA CORWIN / THELMA T. REYNA / DAVID DEPHY / JUDY TUREK 
5 - SPEED FORTH THE DARKNESS WRITTEN BY STEPHEN FRECH PERFORMED BY STEPHEN FRECH / DAVID DEPHY
6 - THE MOROCCAN CURTAIN WRITTEN BY MARYAM S. ALIKHANI PERFORMED BY MARYAM S ALIKHANI / DAVID DEPHY 
7 - NUMBER 22 WRITTEN BY LUCAS HIRSCH PERFORMED BY LUCAS HIRSCH / DAVID DEPHY
8 - IDEALISTS WRITTEN BY DAVID DEPHY PERFORMED BY MARYAM S. ALIKHANI / DAVID DEPHY
9 - THE HUMANIST WRITTEN BY WAYNE MILLER PERFORMED BY WAYNE MILLER / DAVID DEPHY
10 - IF A STORY OF HEAVEN WRITTEN BY DAVID DEPHY PERFORMED BY BILLY LAMONT / ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER / DAVID DEPHY
11 - MICHIGAN WRITTEN BY GLORIA MONAGHAN PERFORMED BY GLORIA MONAGHAN / DAVID DEPHY
12 - DON’T LISTEN TO THAT NOISE WRITTEN BY DAVID DEPHY PERFORMED BY DAVID DEPHY

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POETRY ORCHESTRA / THE SONGS OF THE AMERICAN PROPHETS 
KASSANDRE RUNYAN / AARON FISCHER / DAVID DEPHY / RONALD R. BREMNER / PATRICIA CARRAGON / JOSHUA CORWIN / THELMA T. REYNA / JUDY TUREK / STEPHEN FRECH / MARYAM S. ALIKHANI / LUCAS HIRSCH / WAYNE MILLER / BILLY LAMONT / ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER / GLORIA MONAGHAN 

THE COVER ART BY DAVID DEPHY / SAPHILEAUM

THE CONCEPT OF POETRY ORCHESTRA IS CREATED BY DAVID DEPHY

POETRY ORCHESTRA / THE SONGS OF THE AMERICAN PROPHETS
NEW YORK CITY POETRY ©
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POETRY ORCHESTRA - THE SONGS OF THE AMERICAN PROPHETS

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Breeze of Bay Shore

Long ago, the wind knew my plans. I asked myself: 
“If the wind knows our plans who can defeat the wind?” 
Long ago, I knew the answer. Silence.

I always knew that we all are going to the garden, 
and there was a street, empty, tiny, calm street, 
with the tiny wall, at its very end, and a garden 

beyond that wall. Ruins, as precious dust of hope, 
and wishes. Long ago, in noisy night I was attacked. 
I don’t remember those faces, voices, I left for dead. 

All I remember is my own breath, 
strangely telling the truth— meaning of loneliness, 
as if that garden beyond the wall 

was the sanctuary of my own heart, always alive, 
always beautiful from the very beginning of time.
I lived to revenge myself against my enemies, 

not for what they were – for what I was, 
from the end of childhood, friendship, war, 
from the beginning of understanding— 

when we all were created as a crown of the world, 
I thought the loneliness, and even that pain meant 
we were not loved, but standing on the other side 

of alone, I felt the cold breeze of bay shore, 
and took a deep breath, I heard the seagulls up above, 
“it’s all over now,” I realized, and it meant we loved.

David Dephy
February 20, 2023
New York City

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BREEZE OF BAY SHORE BY DAVID DEPHY

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Meanings Only

Language, the spirit of silence. 
Each word, the heart of silence.
Without hearts we are sightless,
with fingers searching for rays. 

I was circled by the cutlery of 
emptiness, but I felt your breath 
one day, I realized my existence. 
Essence emerged from emptiness.

All the mysteries of our century
and all the answers flew with us.
Silence. Language of understanding. 
Meanings, only. No words. 

David Dephy
June 14, 2020
New York City

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MEANINGS ONLY BY DAVID DEPHY

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