Yesterday and Today – by Langston Hughes Oh, I wish that yesterday, Yesterday was today! Yesterday you was here. Today you gone away. I miss you, Lulu, I miss you so bad— There ain’t no way for me To get you out of my head. Yesterday I was happy. I thought you was happy, too. … Read More
Vacant Blues – by Urayoán Noel I swallow a pill but there is no cure A city map won’t get me where I want to go Scaling the scaffold, mindless of the mall, unaware of driveways where housewives dodge the wrecking ball, I crawl outside these vacant blues and into the contours of your eyes … Read More
If I Never See You Again – by Charles Bukowski If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains. _____ Poetry In Motion – XIIVA https://www.12va.com Music by J.W. Johnson https://www.soundranch.com Video edit … Read More
Surf-Boarding – by Marion Strobel Our palms are wet, our fingers clinging Like sea-weed. I hear you singing, As over waves, from crest to crest, With fear a sickle in our breast, With fear a whistling in our mouth, We turn the surf-board south-east…south! We shift our weight and slide and pass Like shadows gliding … Read More
Beauty Possessed Me – by Katherine Howard Beauty possessed me— For a space I knew not Time. The air filtered through gold Down-sifted from a yellow cloud. Strange silences were passing by— I could not speak aloud I scarce could touch my feet to earth My bones weighed me so light. I touched my shoulders, … Read More
The Ballad Of The Frozen Field – by Dabney Stuart This is the true end of desire, The closed ground deflecting sleet: All seasons tend to this season And the world is flat. This is the true end of exploration Over the low and the high seas; Whoever fares may try lightly All edges but … Read More
Journey – by Mark Turbyfill Life is more sweet than I Knew: the shifted scene Less wavered, more trimmed with light, Than the years before. Look down. People pass over the ice As a file of thin ghosts creep, And fade beyond a hill. You, and you, and you — Small souls, shrinking away. _____ … Read More
Storm Setting – by Daniel Smythe I like the way the brooks leap. I like the vision Of a sky boiling with dark smoke, but more The mad trees and lightning making its quick incision Through the clashing rain. Under the wild downpour I walk thinking, breathing. Air cold and unsteady Tugs at all bending … Read More
2021 Grammy Award Record Of The Year nominees have been announced. Some decent stuff in here. Black Puma’s Colors is on there. That’s a solid track. Billie Eilish also made the cut in record of the year, and also song of the year. We’ll get to songs later. Made a Spotify playlist for them, for … Read More
After several years of messing around with stock and needledrop samples, we’ve finally decided to get into it ourselves. Just like everything else Ranch-like on our site, we’re calling our stock library sets Ranch Packs. The packs will be all types of music: jazz, country, soundtrack, ambient, acoustic… we’re trying to include a little taste … Read More