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DepartShe was still young
when she switched lives
with the boy next door

They had grown close enough
to where most sought one for the other

But closeness relies on proximity
and that dooming wall of distance
was more than physical separation

But closeness relies on dependability
and they grew comfortable in their separate states
where the other had grown up

But closeness replies on harmony
and like the plates that shift slowly beneath the earth
they find they are once again strangers

5:173:30

A perfectly respectable time.

Not like 5:17.

No one waits for 5:17.

It's absurd;

the time should not exist at all.

On-the-hour,

half-hour,

even ten-minute increments:

Those are perfectly respectable times

(unlike 5:17).

Those times are when the body

attached to mine

finds pleasure

(or fright)

(or excitement)

when it looks at me on its wrist.

It doesn't have a use for 5:17.

It despises 5:17

because that is when it either

accuses me of moving too fast

or of moving too slow.

Ridiculous

I

say.

I am perfectly dependable

(so long as it remembers to change me

once in autumn

once in spring).

Perhaps I will try, just

HeroHis mind was young, His heart was old
and cracked to bone like weathered stone
surviving still among the rain.
His eyes were hard and tired of day
but courage blazed too black and bright
rejecting riddles of His fate.
The fire in His arm was light,
but severed was He from his sword,
that swift-descending steel.

The marks they thrust upon His skin
reached icy fingers, lingering inside His spirit,
twisting whispers through His mind.
The lash they lay along His back
left trailing red and hanging flesh
which drained His will with cruel contempt.
He wept his silent tears.

The war that plagued this ruptured land
tore too my changing heart from m

SwingingUnder the motherly gaze of the moon
in an old abandoned children's park,
the man swings. He is young
but not a child, slightly too old
to occupy the playground
but not old enough that
his presence would be a threat
in the daylight.

He swings peacefully,
his toes skimming the ground
to make twin furrows
in the wood chips.
His eyes gaze at the shimmer
of the moon,
head tilted up so its glow
illuminates his face.

This is his escape
from the anger at home
four blocks away,
from the drinking
and betrayal.

This is his healing,
where he recaptures the innocence
he lost so soon after birth
and where his mind gives him peace
from his tormentors.

The End of an EraLeaders

fall

like

ash...

All the King's Fools -Enter the Fool-

FOOL
Pennies for the Fool, hark! Pennies for the Fool!
What hath come of those who serve the Fool?
Those most generous of men, the Fool’s men,
The babbity remnants of his great court.
Generous to thineselves, in that palace
a brothel to gorge both mouths of man,
mouths with want of ale and those too unwise
to know when the Feast makes more fools of them.
Fools serving fools, and they still serve more fools,
I am no more a fool than he, but alas,
He dressed himself a King. Ne’er a king comes
of one with a court full up with pea soup.
Now his soup he buys in

MiscommunicationMy mongoose breathed a story,
words dripping in bright colors
from his mouth
to shatter at my feet.

Songbirds escaped from my eyes
to chase the winter bubbles that formed
from the creature’s broken syllables.

The savor of Chaos shifted
to a perfect D minor,
and its tremor splashed shadows
across the canvas of feathers and fur.

They surfed above me
on a vermilion wind
which tasted like Persian sunshine
and smelled like painted starlight.

Sound failed my tongue
and vanished from my ears,
for colors abandoned me on shimmering wings
to join the beasts in flight.

My feet turned to stone
as their eyes slid around their heads
to capture

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Swallowtailby =Riversun

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I might open song commissions cause I can XD. What do you guys think?

So here's the tune to my song Swallowtail, found here [link]

Please realize that this is my first song I've recorded with everything, and that half the time I was making up the tune as I went xDDD.

And if I ever re-record it, I'm going to make the "help me, help me Swallowtail!" as fast as the solo after it.

Hope you guys enjoy it <3

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=MercytheRose May 6, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

What file format is this? I'm trying to post some music of my own on DA too.

=Riversun May 6, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's a flash file. DA doesn't really have a music playing app, but if you search google for some sort of mp3 to swf converter, a few should show up. The one I used for this you have to pay for if you use the full version, but the free version has like an 80% converter. What I do is put a whole lot of blank audio after the end of my audio file, and that's all that's cropped off.

Good luck!!

=MercytheRose May 6, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you! Audacity provides many formats for me to choose from, so I don't think I'll have any more issues.

*xXcristalcatXx Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

would it be ok if I use this for a video? ill give you 100% credit for the song

=Riversun Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yeah no problem! I think someone else asked me about it too. As long as you credit me or link back to the original in the comments, feel free to use it! I'd love to see it when you're done, too :3

*xXcristalcatXx Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

do you have a download link I could use or do I have to record the clip from da?

=Riversun Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hmm I'll upload the song to one of my youtube accounts and then link it to you :3 reply back to this comment and I should have it up. You know how to rip aidio from Youtube, right? Easier than trying to get it from DA.

*xXcristalcatXx Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

yeah I know how, and thanks

=Riversun Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

When it's done processing, it'll be up here :3 [link]

~dann94 Dec 9, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

What microphone do you use? The sound is very smooth and nothing crackles - except of two (?) moments when you sing louder. I used to record covers and I had a Shure microphone - supposed to be good, but that little d*ck crackled every time I moved the cable, let alone sang to it O.o... So I gave up and bought a tablet >

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