your delivery of "feast on your life" just gave me chills;  this is well done!! I've never read his work before --this is really awesome work (his and yours)!!

Such Captivating Mystical Ochestra & Poetical Delivery...

This is a really awesome rendition! Has such a meditative quality to it!

This is genius..  I love it,   Great Production.

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

These songs are influenced by images from the poem Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. I’m not sure how this poem came to me, I’m not a big reader of poetry, but there is is. I used several images from the poem to name the songs, as well.

The Tide is Full

The Light Gleams And Is Gone

Home

“Singing in hiding”

Art work: Bianca Van Dijk via Pixabay
Vocal: Vocaloid Yukari and a dove cooing in the treetops of a neighbor's garden.

鳩のごと梢の影にかくれたし

I want to sing like a dove, hiding high in the treetops.

Singing in hiding

Singing In Hiding

I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY NOW

Copyright 2023 Pontarollo/O'Brien/Godfrey/Pride/Midipunk/Sanders
Music by Stephane Pontarollo, Brent Godfrey, Kris Pride, Pete Midipunk, Mike Sanders
Lyrics by Alex O'Brien, SOCAN; All Rights Reserved

Stephane Pontarollo: guitars, bass, keyboard 2, trumpets, production, mixing/mastering
Brent Godfrey: vocals
Kris Pride: backing vocals
Pete Midipunk: drums
Mike Sanders: keyboard 1

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
Love will always fade
Wars will always rage
And no one is a sage

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
Faith will always fail
Plagues rain down like hail
And there’s no Holy Grail

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
Beauty wastes away
A hero’s feet turn to clay
And sunny skies always go gray

I should have learned by now (Yeah, you should have learned by now)
I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
I really should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)

Take a million stories
Spread them ‘cross the land
They may be inspiring
But few will understand
Take a million deep breaths
Watch your life unfold
Never dream of your death
Still you’re growing old

It’s a cruel, dark world 
Hard to find the pearls (You should have learned by now)
I’ve been searching for all my life
Someone please shine me a light

It’s a bitter end (You should have learned by now)
Take comfort in your friends (You should have learned by now)
I’ve been searching for all my days
But I know I can’t be saved

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: November 14, 2023

I Should Have Learned By Now

VB - 15

Written/Produced by: R.J. Dobben (RoTen)
Released on: 10/31/2023


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Argh

Wisdom Is A Plant Of Slow Growth

Der lautlose Tanz des Lebens

Rest

EXIT

"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.

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

Lady of Fire Poetry

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