i’m hoping that underneath the surface filled with storms and sharp currents fierce winds that whip cheeks heavy waves that seem to never end that there is a space of calm and depth its sophistication so intense that those who witness it would be in awe make someone look twice then dive under deep with…
Author: bjwany
note book
there is a worn notebook collection of songs blueprints frayed at the edges from hours, days, years spent underneath the machine tinkering with word placement the edges frayed the paper sometimes coffee stained the ink runs where liquid hit the page these songs, while just created, are ancient timeless yes, this notebook is a series…
secret walk
i have a secret walk that is not so secret it has no special door or key or access code it does not require a fee in some ways, it may be circuitous maybe it seems not very direct to those who know that i take it to get to a particular destination it’s not…
go-to song
my go-to song on play volume up don’t care how often i play it because it’s never enough song will always go and i have no favorite part because it is all my favorite i listen and i am whole again there is no other music song makes me look to the heavens question my…
a journey we take together
morning sun rises into an iridescent blanket rays on the road we travel and it’s unlike any moment we’ve seen before where the excitement of time with each other all the while we sit watching the world as it changes with its infinite beauty dream bubbles lingering over heads getting our bearings and easing into…
day ends with light that permeates the sky as if echoing through the calmed storm clouds there is a rooftop that shimmers with the golden pink glow of the setting sun and a palm tree standing as its fronds flutter in the gentle breeze farther off we hear people shouting speaking forcefully with bold lettered…
making magic
standing underneath a streetlight dim artificial glow rain falls around like glitter and when the light hits right you are floating within stardust darkness like a warm blanket hugs the sidewalk barely seen tree outlines lean in close and whisper good ideas to enact later i write them down i go (to myself) oh that…
a little bird
ground i stand on while the light keeps shifting warm sun seems like an anomaly and clouds’ shadows drift in the breeze creating a space that reflects patches of light and at the edges of park in between the brush a sparrow finds a place high up above the city walkways speeding cars and the…
visualizing purple clouds
seeing the infinite landscape stretched out before me cloud lines along the distant mountains just a scribble on the paper in purple bleeding ink soaks into the page and down into where the mountain meets the water can you see it in double vision? as something from within your imagination, a picture within the mind…
moving through the denseness of a forest
in a place where there are millions of trees leaves create a temporary barrier palm leaves brush past you while moving forward doesn’t matter the pace slow or moving fast through greenery the air is thick with dew and distant birds animals calls echo reverberating off the stems shaking moving through underneath a canopy of…