Aqua-stellar flame

.....original poetry.....
...with reading &...
.original music.

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Tides of gratitude
Wheel in aquamarine circuits,

They melt into the planetary center
& mingle with its garnet blood.

The volcanic heart thrums in
Gentle-emphatic brutality:
Its callous umber protects
From cosmic cataclysm
With fists of ore.

The earth golem core, drinking
Oceans from a crusted goblet,

Swimming through transformation of
Lapiz & seafoam dynasties,

Uncaring fire itself,
Transparent with agelessness,
Nests in the banished centre
Where colorless time spins
On its axis spewing the lime ice.

Love-laced hydro-dynamo of aeons
Flow, oh ever-swirling, grow.

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Notes

I wrote this poem last night as a reflection on the volatile and unstable nature of emotion compared to the almost brutal strength of cosmic forces. This is the first time I've ever recited a poem to a beat. I chose a good tempo (160 bpm) and improvised some rhythms for the words. Then I composed the accompaniment part for piano and acoustic bass (both recorded with samples on my Yamaha Montage keyboard.) I sourced a free domain recording of a campfire for the ambient background noise. Tuning is A = 432 hz in equal temperament. Tempo is 160 bpm in the key of Eb major. This was quite enjoyable to create! It's the first time I've ever put music to any of my poems. I'll provide an explanation of each stanza below for those interested. Thanks for visiting my blog and taking the time to read/listen!

Lines 1-4

(Tides of gratitude...its garnet blood)
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Depicts the magnetic force of universal gratitude as an ocean that floods through everything, even the magmic center of the Earth.

Lines 5-9

(The volcanic heart...fists of ore.)
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The planet is paradoxically gentle and brutal. Its density which allows for an atmosphere to exist, protects us from harmful cosmic radiation and the frigidity of space.

Lines 10-13

(The earth golem core...seafoam dynasties.)
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Metaphorizes the core of the earth as a powerful golem whose libation is the ocean, drinking from the goblet of the earth's crust. It remains steady through the surface dynasties of humans on its blue-green surface.

Lines 14-18

(Uncaring fire itself...spewing the lime ice.)
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Refers to the divine fire and its obscure home in the Unmanifest (banished centre.) Though fiery, it spews the "lime ice" (metaphor for the relative coldness of the compassion, gratitude, and love, etc. that humans experience, since they are typically conditional in nature.)

Lines 19-20

(Love-laced hydro-dynamo...ever-swirling, grow.)
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An affirmation that love in its philosophical sense is the undergirding of all space and time that ever-generates.

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