‘Faders Up’
Wrote a poem on live sound and mix engineering. The gatekeepers of live music.
#poetry #poem #spokenword

The words needed to articulate, they just won’t come
Though it’s all love, I must stipulate, I don’t have fun
I find myself when I meditate, sit at the drums or run
Coffee and greens are the predicate, that dictate what I get done

#poem #poetry #blueskypoetry

A better world possible. Can art help get us there?

#spokenwordpoem #spokenword #poetry #poem #spoken #short

(2 of 2) #poem #poetry #rhymes #utopia

To be a nuisance is the mission
We hope you’ll join us too
A better world is still the vision
We can’t envision, without you.

I’m giving away my attention as it’s going out of style
You might be cool with rushing shit
But our shit, takes a while
We want our art to go the distance
To go the extra mile
To be a sonic symbol of resistance
A political pressure poster child

(1 of 2 ⬇️) #poem #poetry #rhymes #utopia

(2 of 2) ⬇️
Seems you need as little qualifications as a paper round
You don’t need ears, just fold arms, head nod after a walk about
Push the faders up it’s basically over now
Once the earplugs are in, they very rarely come out.

#poem #poetry #rhymes

(1 of 2) #poem #poetry #rhymes

Trying to get accustomed to being around
Just being in crowds
Engineers got the speakers loud
Beg you to cut some frequencies out
All of that top end needs turning down
The magic is in the midrange, you just, range mid at sound

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2/2
Sun got me on the street like an addict
Seems no amount of vitamin d can cover the damage
Manage? How?
My Motivation swings likes a see saw, from ‘let’s conquer the world!’ to ‘why do I breathe for?’

#poem #poetry #rhymes

#poem #poetry #rhymes 1/2

Gotta keep tapping the screen
Still struggling to relax, being busy’s how I’d like to be seen
Or disappear entirely, if you know what I mean
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‘DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE?’

#poetry #spokenword #poem #dating

2/2 (edited)

We’ve bumbled connection, tinder’s ripped us apart
The later we leave it, we’re less likely to start
I’m up for fumbling the first steps, trying to kindle a spark
Your tempo’s the key that matches my heart

#poem #poetry #love

1/2
It hurts to know as little as I do
Do you want to know more? I know that I do
With no social score, I’ve no credit to use
Nowhere to demonstrate excellence
Show you it’s me you should choose ⬇️

#poem #poetry #rhymes

You only have to love you for you to know how to love me too
And I know that we can love each other, with different points of view.

#poem 2/2 #poetry #Bradford

My city is ground zero for the rights you enjoy now
That spirit persists, it’s just gotta be sought out
Don’t fear the reaction, we fall in and we fall out
Conflict can be constructive, if we peacefully know how
#poem 1/2
#poetry #Bradford

It’s fine if nothing comes to mind
You can’t be at your most prolific, most of the time
A little space, a little calm, can help you unwind
When you tune into silence, you allow you to find.

#poem #poetry #uncreative #meta #silence #idea

‘Covid really doesn’t fuck off’

#spokenword #poetry #poem #blueskypoetry #covid #desire #men

Birds are awesome.

Why would the nights get lighter
When the days are so heavy?
To survive you must be a fighter
Your foes rely you’re not ready.

#spokenword #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry #goodnight #thoughts #journal #life #words #video

We deserve better.

#racism #immigration #identity #home #spokenword #ukpolitics

I feel sick

#blueskypoetry #poem #poetry #spokenword #video

Punished for my passion

Pedestalling a pattern

If you knew that I feel you

Would you be flattered?

#poem #poetry #admirer

I don’t need you to care about me

For me, to care about you

After all, how can I not?

After all that I know about you.

#poetry #poem #care #love

tweaking the tune, writing lines that you speak
Now my dopamine’s dusted, receptors deplete
Well in need of a detox, but I’m still sick when I eat.

#poem #poetry #writing #written #feelings #gut #detox

It’s a crutch
Psychologically clutched
It creeps up on you
A little grows to too much
In the right climate a seed grows on the street
Use it as a medicine or as an end of day treat
Though it feels so bloody lovely when you’re sat on a beat,
1/2

Fucking sick of feeling sick as fuck

Sick fucks, everywhere I look

It’s a sick feeling, feeling out of luck

Why do I feel sick, for wanting to fuck?

#poem #poetry #thoughts #nausea

We invest so much in generational wealth, that we fail to save our generational spirit.

#thoughts #family #wealth #spirit #genz #millenial #gena

Was in #headingley #leeds today either during or right after this fella’s gone on the hunt.

There seems to be a rise in men who have no emotional faculties, other than to inflict pain on others, for the pain they feel has been done to them.

We need to raise all our boys with emotional literacy.

Congrats! 🙌

Banger of a book. Never been a better time for meta boycott momentum.

Just finished #CarelessPeople.

Shit. The. Bed.

Shook.