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luapharas  Sep 2015
tunage
luapharas Sep 2015
I’m guilt-ridden over wanting what I don’t have
n’ not being appreciative of what I’ve got
scenery is all based on perspective
don’t need a view when you’ve got sweet tunes to relax the mind
cavity craving anything with a good beat

and lyrics that mean something

spend hours flowing from genre to genre

exploring the sounds of new and old
these tunes 
pound through my headphones

feeling the beat through my veins

as though my heart beats 
to every drum solo 

I hum when I'm happy

from sappy love songs 
to classic rock
 
Im no good with small talk

lets get high and talk about life 
to death,
and everything i n
 b e t w e e n

put on some jams, 
smoke a couple grams, 
and just be 
happy
this party sux.
the boy who invited me was my first boyfriend
in ninth grade and i still want to make-out on his parents water bed.

i shuffle out into the cold air, carbon-dioxide puffs visible as i exhale.

i make my way to the apartment complex where i used to *** cigarettes from Jeff
- floor 3, room 57, shaggy, enjoys Jose Gonzalez tunage.

laying on my favorite bench,
with my hair falling over the sides to the sidewalk covered in gum
that now looks as black as the cement roads,
i take a visual photograph
~ aesthetical phenomenon.

i save this stargaze.jpg into my file entitled,
‘show me something memorable when i get Aspergers’.

inside i hear shrill cheering and glasses clinking. it must be midnight, already.
a tingle of relief runs down my spine. i’d rather spend my first few minutes of the New Year focused on the one thing i put above most.


the universe and i have developed
interpersonal secrets, theories, stories, feelings, et cetera.

he knows everything about me. i know nothing of   him.
the dirty poet  Oct 2019
TUNAGE
the dirty poet Oct 2019
jimmy page had a sitar before the beatles
but couldn’t figure out how to tune it
see, being a beatle pays off
you can have the world’s greatest sitar master
give you tuning tips
all jimmy page had for guidance
was a billion groupies
I remember when we used to sit on the swings, we would laugh and play with the sky. I watched your legs as they flew through the air wanting to touch the unknown, eager to feel freedom from the ground. I remember when we would lie on the grass and feel diamonds in our backs. We never moved and we wore sunglasses because the sun exploded as we turned our heads to talk. I remembered how much I love you, I remembered how I would look at you from the corner of my eye so you wouldn’t see, and wince at your beauty. I remember you being beautiful.

There were many memories to keep and lots to discard. Everyone feels this way, everyone feels lost at what to do. It’s ok, you know, to feel, this, way.  I imagine you thinking of this, as I do of you. There is some old time 50’s tunage seeping through the background to this picture, it spurs me to get to my feet and dance with you. Your hand in mine, feels like I am touching a firework; like there should be a warning label attached to your ***. Whoa girl, do you know what you just did? I am the coyote, you are the roadrunner. You are the music, I am the encore. You are, you are, the be all and end all. You are the night-time that the day awaits. You are the star in my shine.

You make me feel like this is possible, even to write these words makes  my mind blow like a dandelion in a august hurricane. I never knew rumours would grow into whispers. I never knew my heart would ache like you had hit me with a truck, full frontal, BAM. I never knew your lies. I wished I had listened. I wished I had taken the time to not know better. I wished you had taken the time to know me before the cigarettes and the alcohol and the late nights where I wished you would dance with me instead of watching, waiting and seeing. I got lost somewhere, your words lost their meaning.

I wish you a beautiful happy ending, forever ever after
Lisa Pike  Aug 2016
Gig
Lisa Pike Aug 2016
Gig
Wow! Atmosphere perfect.
Feel hot and sweaty. Can feel the electricity between all our bodies.
All connected by the love of music.
Brains electrified, neuron's pulsing.
exited by hearing the beat, feeling the beat, being the beat.
Close my eyes and see the colours of such personal Tunage.
I feel it, I know it
Like an old friend
"Hello old friend", I say " I love you" Music is life
Chuck the TV in the bin, it is of no consequence to me.
Love life and unity..Written after another Dreadzone gig.
Love
Ron Sep 2020
A cold wind is whistling under my door,
And the city's naked wail,
sounds pale with the tune.
I see an alley cat crossing fast,
A silent shadow on the roadside path,
And faint I  hear on the wind in the night,
Thousands of typists on the internet.
Instead of wishing for the moment to slow,
To bear me away and watch me go,
I have found your poem so beautiful,
That I forget the cat crossing the path,
To the tune of typists on the internet.

— The End —