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For my fellow artists. This track began as a project to divert an artist friend who is recovering from major surgery and enduring a very boring convalescence. It's a ghazal about the trials and triumphs of being an artist from this book of metrical love poems garethcalway.blogspot.com/2016/01/6-de…rees-of.html
I'm not quite endorsing Shelley's "I fall upon the thorns of life. I bleed!" as regards the hell an artist often catches from an indifferent world for offering his vision - or protecting himself from it in what is dismissed as the artistic temperament - I'm just exchanging sympathies with those who know the feeling and putting two fingers up at those who never will.

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Love’s not for Sunday schoolgirls ; her rosy beam
Is blood on soles not blushing peach and cream.

God gave us religion to kherque* and vest our egos
And showbiz to smash them to smithereens.

This calling in the wilderness, so far,
So near, so very faint, so heartbreak-keen.

This art and soul and song and dance on wings,
My vision died for, made a perfect scene.

Love’s deva peak, his heaven come to earth:
The angels weep to see or haven’t seen.

Art’s risen Adam-dawn and dewy Eve:
The breaking silence of the broken dream.

O Leila, he’s your Majnun lost to you
In boundless love, your Ocean in the stream.

Oh Majnun, she’s your heaven-scent pursued
To hell and back to where she’s always been.

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from Bad King John & The Word on the Street (album), released July 23, 2017

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Bardonthewire England, UK

Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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