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The Word on the Street and the Lovecraft

from Bad King John & The Word on the Street (album) by Bardonthewire

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A ghazal and a sonnet about performing ambitious material in folk clubs.

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I only you could hear my heart, my ill-umination,
The music of my soul, my life's driving vision.

If only I could find the words that don't keep it hidden,
This meaning that I've found, this heart-communication.

I sing the six degrees of our separation
And the one leap of faith to your seventh heaven.

The Harbour Boat Inn’s going hammer and tongue,
Six sheets to the wind and all hell going on.

Its tavern crowd shuts up, hearing my song,
By the die-for chorus, it’s singing along.

I sing the six degrees of our separation
And the one leap of faith to your seventh heaven.

I don’t want the 3 worlds, I want to destroy them,
Reverse the equation, our long division.

I don’t want mind’s relics, prayers, altars, hokum
Except as remembrance of love’s oblivion.

I sing the six degrees of our separation
And the one leap of faith to your seventh heaven.

But don’t smash them up, you God-crazed fools,
Blast them out of your mind to kingdom come.

Six sheets to the wind, with all hell going on,
Love blows me away; I blink and I’ve gone.

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And so at last it’s only you, my Friend,
The same old testament between these lines,
No other matter in these quiet signs
But You, no spirit, sense or start or end:
You gift the giver and your gift transcends
The fairest words, the subtlest rhymes:
A love-struck silence speaking volumes chimes
The un-forgotten lost soul chord, and sends:

What do you give the One who has it all?
What else, a Christmas book my hurt has made
From broken beat and strings and love as blind
As snowflakes on the wind, a debt repaid
A seven-petalled rose; love’s answered call;
The All in all I gave my all to find.

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from Bad King John & The Word on the Street (album), released July 23, 2017
Voice, vocal, percussion, post-performance Wisbech Harvester on a Saturday night.

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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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