great approach to this haiku, condensed and yet very open!!

Nicely atmospheric and a great interpretation of the poem!

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haiku #251: I have lost my way / In a strange town at night, – / A sky of old cold stars.

Yellow and Blue

X-Starkbierzeit

19-7-2025

Cool Retro Backing Track provided by Studio Jam Tracks ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSG2zITNN4

Also: this lyric was inspired by the following link.  To learn more about the stoic woman go to==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDEcNSfhRdM&t=1221s
SHE
She doesn’t crave approval
She has no need of walls
Her gates are only open to
Those of likeness she calls
No longer wearing a mask
To indulge society
That’s the kind of woman
One day I long to be

CHORUS
She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity

Her soul is non-negotiable 
She settles for no man
She doesn’t need permission
To take a moral stand
She walks through the fire
Of stoic pedigree
That’s the kind of woman
No man controls readily

CHORUS
She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity, perpetuity

[Music w/ clapping]

She doesn’t want the pedestal  
She wants the partnership
Not looking to forge a man
Wants a man who’s got a grip
No longer bleeding inside
In her solitude she is free
Yeah, that’s the kind of woman
One day I vow to be

She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity

BRIDGE
So, when you see her walking alone
You need not feel pity
She’s no longer waiting to be chosen
She owns the city –
She is dangerous
She no longer plays the game
She is dangerous
She’ll never be the same

She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity, perpetuity, yeah

©️ 2025 Renee La Chapelle - All Rights Reserved

zur Sommerzeit

Going to a cosplay party tonight. It's new and exciting. This is how I feel about it!

(Dis)comfort

Strike for REAL music

So why is feeling pain relavant to a war on thoughtless creativity?

Because thoughtless creativity represents the heroine everyone is being fed with short dose wifi needle injected media on social networks and now people are being bombarded with advertisements to embrace this thoughtless creativity via automated tools. It's limiting the scope of the human condition by not selling the importance of not being afraid to feel your pain as that's life and that's how we grow and find ever new levels of content and happiness that we can share and enjoy with eachother. The pian is our reference to improve upon ourselves as individuals and it's bloody hard and feeling it wakes you up. Capitalistic power and fundamentalist creeds don't want you to do that because you are more controlable tuned out from yourself


The Poem

Strike for your pain

We've hiked through the darkness
Crushed our hearts
Then pumped them up
New hopeful start
We strike for pain
We want to feel it
New reference we gain
Good feelings transmute it

Strike for your pain
New reference we gain
Good feelings

See that's transcendance
Learning when lost
Acknowledging fear
And tilt to new course
With each new direction
Less fear finds feather
Native reflection
Finds presence for better

Strike for your pain
New reference we gain
Good feelings

We've made the peak
We found our light
Old fear now feeble
Mused mind sets insight
Now we can see
Like true observers
Climb your mountain and see
Pain thats past is quite virtuous


Strike for your pain
New reference we gain
Good feeling...

Strike for your pain
New reference we gain
Good feeling...

Ahhhhhh yeah
Ohhhh ooo
Ooo Ohhhh Ooo
Yeah 🕺🏻🫡💪🏽🧬🎶🌍

Strike for your Pain

unsureso

They found 3000 years old honey and you can still eat it.

honey never expires

believe 3

I have lost my way
In a strange town at night, –
A sky of old cold stars.

haiku by Richard Wright https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/wright.html
picture by Biel Morro https://unsplash.com/@bielmorro

lost

halF losT [naviarhaiku251]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
251 week haiku
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2018-10-25

I have lost my way (Naviarhaiku 251)

This track was composed for the Naviar Haiku project (@naviar-records), week 251: https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records/sets/haiku-251-i-have-lost-my-way

In A Strange Town (Naviarhaiku251)

my entry for the https://www.ambientonline.org/forum/ambient/ao-challenges/91594-one-sample-dare-challenge-63
haiku by Richard Wright https://terebess.hu/english/haiku/wright.html
picture by Biel Morro https://unsplash.com/@bielmorro

Naviarhaiku - Old Cold Stars

October 26, 2018.

I have lost my way
In a strange town at night, –
A sky of old cold stars.

~ Richard Wright

~
 

One of the most celebrated African-American novelists of the twentieth century, Richard Wright discovered haiku during the last eighteen months of his life (he died of heart attack in 1960, aged 52). In such a short time he wrote 4000 poems, and his posthumous book “Haiku: This Other World“ is a collection with 817 of his own favorite haiku.

His daughter Julia once said that haiku for Wright were “self-developed antidotes against illness, and that breaking down words into syllables matched the shortness of his breath.”

Strangetown, At Night (Naviar Haiku 251)

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

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