Archive for February 2007
Oblivion, a very short verse for SAC2 and a fan fic
Oblivion is a very short verse, well, two verses, written for SAC2 and also for a character in The Look In Her Eyes, an XWP fan fic. Listen to Oblivion, WMA file. Hear bama bardwannabe barding in her creepy bardy psuedo-Alti voice. *G* My very sore & hoarse voice, and a very tiny delay on the dub, made for a mildly spooky effect. I'm re-doing this one...
Read the full postHope Invokes the Spirits of Evil, a poem chant for SAC2 and a fan fic
Hope Invokes the Spirits of Evil is a poem from the cutting room floor, originally written for Hope and another character in "The Look In Her Eyes", a piece of XWP fanfic set after SAC2. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaa! Blessed be! Audio file on the way.
Hope Invokes the Spirits of Evil
Spirits of Evil, Spirits of Darkness!
Fly over the mountains
and down to the sea!
Spirits of Evil, Spirits of Darkness!
The Ocean Between Us, a poem for The Rift
Ocean arose out of my musings on what our beloveds were going through during the time of the (d)Rift. Hearts are easily torn apart, easily shattered. And healing can take a long, long time. I think Gabrielle would have sat with her quill many a dark night writing her soul onto her scrolls, hoping against hope for love's reuniting. I wrote the following for her, since she is not here to share with us her...
Read the full postLeather and Lace, original lyrics for a song for Return of Callisto
Leather and Lace: A song I wrote for Return of Callisto. I wrote this song using another penname, someone else's title, and someone else's image for someone else's characters to sing. And sorta ripped off, er, borrowed an idea from someone else's poem too. Gotta love it. *G* Sadly, the official canon did not allow X&G to grow old together, so this song, though very hopeful in itself, is always very sad to me. I...
Read the full postHoping Against Hope, a poem and song for SAC2
Hoping Against Hope is, yes, another poem/song for the XWP ep, SAC2. And it's a good thing there was such an ep as SAC2, or else I might never have written a frakkin' thing, donchaknow! *G* I've never recorded the tune for Hoping Against Hope, but I do have two versions of it in my head. The music for the first version, which I composed back in 1998,...
Flawless, a song for Lucy, Conquering
I wrote a song back in the fall when Lucy was on Celebrity Duets, entitled Flawless, a song For Lucy, Conquering. She might not have won the contest, but she certainly won the hearts of countless fans. As if she hadn't won them long before. And the truth is, I didn't actually write it, I sorta improvised it and recorded it while listening to the background music. Then I went back and recorded another vocal...
Read the full postRunaway, a song by bamaxena, for FIN2
Runaway: Lyrics for a song that was improvised, performed and recorded by bamaxena on the night of January 10 2007.
MP3 256mps, MP3 128mps, WMA 128mps.
Runaway, a song for FIN2
I'm gonna run away,
gonna run away today.
Oh, you said you'd never leave me,
I wanted to believe you.
You said you'd...
The Moment I Saw Her, a poem and song for SOTP
New audio version posted May 3 2007: MP3 256kps 128kps, 96kps, 64kps; WMA 128kps, 48kps.
"Love enters the noble heart through the eyes." -- Gerhard Hauptman. Quoted on numerous occasions by Joseph Campbell, author of Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Joseph Campbell was fond of quoting Gerhard Hauptman as saying: "Love...
Read the full postAbout Writing Poetry, first thoughts on writing poems, on being a poet
I wrote a lot of poems in 1998, during the summer in the aftermath of the XWP season three ender, Sacrifice II. So much of my work came out of that same period of writing, a time when every thought I had revolved around or spiraled out from my obsession with all things XWP. And every line I uttered (or that I heard anyone else utter) seemed fraught with meaning and with meter and with...
Read the full postNights are for nightmares, a poem for SAC2
"Nights are for nightmares" is a poem written for SAC2, or rather, for the aftermath. I really was haunted by that episode, which you can tell by how much writing came out of it, poems, songs, rambling excuses for essays... And a still unfinished piece of fan fic, which, if I do say so myself, had some moments in it which were simply scintillating. And some other moments that were simply strange. And a good...
Read the full postHer Last Scroll, poems from fan fiction, set after SAC2
Herein lies the further telling of the tale
of the Warrior Princess, Xena,
searching for heart, her Bard, Gabrielle.
Rendered as it was found
on an old weathered scroll,
this tale that I tell
is the tale that it told...
Thus opened every chapter of The Look In Her Eyes, my (still) unfinished fan fic. I tend to slide into and out of poetry, the poetic form gliding into lyrical prose and back...
Read the full postRiding All Night Through the Land of the Dead, my first song for AITST
Riding All Night Through the Land of the Dead: MP3 256KPS, MP3 128KPS, MP3 96KBS, WMA 128KPS. Okay,...
The Other Side, for FIN2, WFC, and IOM, a song in progress
Listen to The Other Side: MP3 256KPS, MP3 128 KPS, MP3 96KPS, WMA 128KPS. This is version one of a song in progress, written with mainly FIN II in mind, but with scenes from IOM and WFC whirling around in my brain too....
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