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Mixed and Mastered by Dylan Wall.

Shmoopie

SUNSHINE

Mississippi

Vice City Magic

How Come

For the Time Being

Infinite Jest

Axle

Hahaha

Roll The Dice

I WANTED YOU TO FEEL IT

Baba Pen & The Bim Bam Band - The Immortal Gerard

“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.

“Synesthesia” is the 10th song on the Anthesis music album and seeks to express the overwhelming, multisensory experience of encountering the beloved by abandoning conventional sensory language and instead layering cross-modal metaphors. The sonnet’s structure is one of escalating sensory substitution and confusion, reflecting both the poet’s own synesthetic tendencies and the inadequacy of language to fully capture perception. The poem oscillates between wonder and frustration, arriving finally at a single tangible image (the beloved’s hair), where the speaker concedes the limits of description but still attempts communion through breath and metaphor. The style is surreal, blending hallucinatory imagery with rhetorical questioning to enact the emotional and perceptual disorientation experienced.

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Lyrics

Synesthesia

Was it the bloom of apple trees in May,
Or temple incense from Nepal’s rich crest?
Perhaps warm toast with cinnamon’s soft spray,
Or saturated coffee grinds, when pressed?

Was it a rose, or honeysuckle’s kiss?
Or did the sea blow salt across my face?
Did forest spice dance through the air with bliss,
Or storm’s electric haze hide here this trace?

Did moonlight sigh, or sunbeams moan aglow?
Or had the dust of angels laced the air?
Did nebulae chant clouds of candied snow,
Or sing us skies of caramel in prayer?

Creation, tasteless, falters—and I dare
Breathe deep your twilight tapestry of hair.

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Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3dMNga3PaxcmTfrYH3OSfM
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/stargaz…ntirmo/1842303474

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

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