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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (1915) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and later included in T.S. Eliot's first collection, "Prufrock and Other Observations" (1917). This poem is considered one of the most important works of modernist poetry. Eliot actually wrote the poem between 1910 and 1911 while...

Sacred Emily by Gertrude Stein, 1913 (Spoken Word Nik Bear)   Argonauts   That is plenty   Cunning saxon symbol   Symbol of beauty   Thimble of everything   Cunning clover thimble   Cunning of everything   Cunning of thimble   Cunning cunning   Place in pets   Night town   Night town a glass   Color mahogany   Color mahogany center   Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose   Loveliness extreme   Extra...

No More Pharaohs No More Kings Let My People Go   If you refuse to let them go I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country The frogs will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed Into the houses of your officials and on your people and into your ovens and kneading troughs The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials They build their thrones on bro...

Twas the night before Christmas (Mayfield)   ’Twas the night before Christmas all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there The children were dreaming so snug in their beds While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads Oh ‘twas the night the magical night When the world held its...

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Newton)   Twas the night before Christmas all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there The children were dreaming so snug in their beds While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads Oh twas the night the magical night When the world held its br...

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Adapted into Song Lyrics) (Nik Bear)   ’Twas the night before Christmas all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there The children were dreaming so snug in their beds While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads Oh ‘twas the night the magical n...

The Price of Eggs (Liam)   Liam Bear Brown https://music.apple.com/us/artist/liam-bear-brown/1780970474 https://open.spotify.com/artist/4SSyKsRubysg99cAIs82uI?si=pp_V83uiRJGelFNWsr8Frg https://liam.musinique.com  

This Train Is Bound for Glory  - Studio Sessions (Bear) This Train Is Bound for Glory is one of the most powerful spirituals in the public domain — a rolling anthem of faith, justice, and the journey toward salvation. Rooted in the oral tradition of Black spirituals, this song emerged in the early 20th century, carried by church voices, railroad workers, and freedom singers. With a no-nonsense mor...

This Train Is Bound for Glory  - Studio Sessions (Prarthana) This Train Is Bound for Glory is one of the most powerful spirituals in the public domain — a rolling anthem of faith, justice, and the journey toward salvation. Rooted in the oral tradition of Black spirituals, this song emerged in the early 20th century, carried by church voices, railroad workers, and freedom singers. With a no-nonsens...

This Train Is Bound for Glory  - Studio Sessions (Liam) This Train Is Bound for Glory is one of the most powerful spirituals in the public domain — a rolling anthem of faith, justice, and the journey toward salvation. Rooted in the oral tradition of Black spirituals, this song emerged in the early 20th century, carried by church voices, railroad workers, and freedom singers. With a no-nonsense mor...

"If the world is condemned to mediocrity, if heroes are no more than statues and mythical figures and if adventure is for madmen then let us condemn ourselves to glory, let us become myth and let us be madmen, for the herd is already too numerous." — Nicolás Gómez Dávila About the Author Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994) was a Colombian philosopher and aphorist known as "Don Colacho" to his admirer...

Song Inspired by Come Down Moses and the Frog Protests (No More Pharaohs, No More Kings, Let My People Go)   (Exodus 8:2–6, NIV translation): “If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The fro...

Letter from a Region in My Mind | Spoken Word (Nik Bear Brown) Musinique resident poet and song writer Nik Bear Brown made a spoken word interpretation of James Baldwin's  “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” The New Yorker (Nov. 17, 1962) “A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...