Absolutely superb - as is every song of yours I've heard, so far. Really excellent.

Sad image, but so nice expressed in a beautiful song, Bob!

A remarkable write ... just a big ole wow!

In the alleyways of midnight, shadows climb the walls
Playing trash guitar, while the night tumbles and falls
Cigarette smoke lingers, on the city streets so bare
Spinning songs of disillusion, with a heart in full repair

Hey now Lou, where has it gone?
Time lost in translation, in a big world gone wrong
So many highs and lows, a velvet symphony
Nico in the shadows, at the Silver Factory

The city is a circus, with clowns on every block
The neon lights they sputter, as the music rolls and rocks
Singing songs of outcasts, the misfits and the lost
Finding space in the music, doesn’t matter the cost

Hey now Lou, where has it gone?
Time lost in translation, in a big world gone wrong
So many highs and lows, a velvet symphony
Nico in the shadows, at the Silver Factory
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba

Walking down Grove Street, got my leather jacket on
Thinking about my masterpiece, in the half light of dawn
Channeling the spirits, and the songs of the day
In a dream that keeps repeating, every step along the way

Hey now Lou, where has it gone?
Time lost in translation, in a big world gone wrong
So many highs and lows, a velvet symphony
Nico in the shadows, at the Silver Factory
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba

Hey Lou

1週間DTM お題➁PLAYLIST : カフェで流れてほしい自作曲３選

カフェでの演奏をイメージしてシンプルな構成(スリーピース)で作りました
生活感満載のメロウなポップスです

#重音テト
#花隈千冬
#Korggadget
#１週間DTM

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ぐるぐる洗濯(GuruGuru Washing)

Você Topa Nossa Aliança Na Sua Mão Esquerda

naviarhaiku518

dark clouds menacing
– I doubt we shall reach shelter
before the deluge

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 13th December 2023
Haiku by Raymond Cobley
Picture by Malte Schmidt

Dark Clouds Menacing (naviarhaiku518)

Forest sounds, riverside, rain, meditation.

The city’s looking hard tonight 
Sometimes I think the magic is gone 
The voice of Lou Reed in my bones
It’s so funny but it keeps me warm 
Yeah the city’s feeling hard tonight 

The city’s looking dim tonight
Sometimes I see you walking away 
The silent gait and leather boots 
Move below with nothing to say 
Yeah the city’s got it bad tonight 
Yeah the city’s got it bad tonight

The city’s a big mess tonight
But the A Train just keeps on running
Rats and bats and dirty things
Bad guys coming out and gunning
Yeah the city’s tilted red tonight 

The city’s looking hard tonight 
Sometimes I think the soul is gone
Reed and Cohen in a gaslight dream
You in Chelsea in the gray of dawn
Yeah the city’s looking hard tonight 
Oh the city’s looking hard tonight
Yeah the city’s looking hard tonight

Hard City

2.Horror

Just me having a little fun.
Via my keyboard controller and breath controller I am playing the Swam Tenor Sax and the Swam Flute Barocco.  Band-in-a-Box is playing the rest of the tracks.

Smooth Motion

Pobble

Thoughtest sens_01

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often
I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Haiku by Shinkei: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384

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