Of Tenderness Charmed has been published in All of Me Vol. IV, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Believe by The Chemical Brothers.

Listen to Of Tenderness Charmed by Richard Charles Stevens (Believer Suite)

the world is right here
in our palm

.

life can be cruel
thus i choose to be kind
search for the good within all human kind
live for today so tomorrow can find me
leave myself clues in the hope they’ll remind me
alter my course and then venture forth blindly
spare sparing thoughts for all those who despise me
speak to the many with chosen few words
seek to enrapture through chapter and verse
.
something for nothing and nothing perverse
not one for bluffing of cunning averse
such is forthcoming when numbing our senses
asking attack as to where best defence is
suddenly life takes on different complexion
little but object of lesser affection
should i make friends then i do so for keeps
such is my chosen direction

(affection)
.

maybe just maybe with blind faith unchanging
the world is right here
in our palm

.

maybe just maybe with blind faith unchanging
the world is right here
in our palm

(raise alarm)

.

the world is right here

the world is right here

the world is right here
in our palm

.

the world is right here

the world is right here

the world is right here
in our palm

.
dare to be different
considered of heart
feast on the breadcrumbs in each piece of art
reach for the skies and make prize of the stars
do so of tenderness charmed
.
life can be cruel
thus i choose to be kind
leave all the anal retention behind
search for the good within all human kind
make the vows true blue hearts bind

.
we may not speak for a week month or year
yet through words like these
we are never more near
said at the start
i’d be true real sincere
every last artery crystalline clear
so much we say can be misunderstood
but i have blind faith
one fine day we’ll come good
look through the trees to the spellbinding wood
rise from our knees and release mourner’s hood
should we make friends
we should make them for keeps
populate shouldn’t with reasons we should
build the foundations
remain forward facing
embracing with grace every dream famed for chasing
enemies translating friends for the making
this is how we tend to reawaken
.

reach for the skies and make prize of the stars
do so of tenderness charmed
.
life is less cruel
when we choose to be kind
search for the good within all human kind
all of us fall
the cool trick is to rise
put out the call
deny cruel to be kind
should we make friends
then for keeps not pretend
we have and hold something unique to no end
.

should we make friends
then for keeps not pretend
we have and hold something unique to no end
.

maybe just maybe with blind faith unchanging
the world is right here
in our palm
.

maybe just maybe with blind faith unchanging
the world is right here
in our palm

.

life is less cruel
when we choose to be kind
search for the good within all human kind
all of us fall
the cool trick is to rise
put out the call
deny cruel to be kind
should we make friends
then for keeps not pretend
we have and hold something unique to no end
.

maybe just maybe with blind faith unchanging
the world is right here
in our palm
.

maybe just maybe with blind faith unchanging
the world is right here
in our palm

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Stealing Home pays homage to Odio A Rasco by TBK & DJ Jonay.

Listen to Stealing Home by Richard Charles Stevens (Pitcher Suite)

every good fairy tale veers to the shadows
every good fable hosts screams
bookending entropy with ebony and ivory
the irony of which sits in-between

.

whether pleasure or pain
we are feeling
with all deference paid
clad in leather and lace
boarding emigrant train
to revealing
whether pleasure or pain
we are feeling
.

through the desolate planes
with a head full of steam
in the clouds
there is famed
a most elegant dream
where pure love profound
is the resident theme
has been gowned in pre-eminent gene

.

through the never
ever after
from the floorboards to rafters and farther hereafter
a masterful scene
bedecked in the jewels
borne of kings and of queens
with the wings of the skies and the thighs of the seas

.

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees

every cycle in hindsight foreseen

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees
every feeling we’re revealing
we are seen
.

weathered not by remorse
tethered not oblique course
no longer so crudely divorced

face to face
they embrace
while the stars give them away
light and shade reacquainted to the source

.

both sun and the moon
are suffused to the chords
gone too soon they may be
but they come back to wed beneath pebble-strewn shores
light and shade reacquainted to the source

.

through the desolate planes
sporting head full of steam
in the clouds
we live out
a most elegant dream
the reprise of all lives
time and space in-between
that of flawless devout
borne of kings and of queens

.

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees

every cycle in hindsight foreseen

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees
every feeling we’re revealing
we are seen
.

every good fairy tale veers to the shadows
every good fable hosts screams
bookending entropy with ebony and ivory
the irony of which sits in-between
every reminiscence is divine in its provision
with the vision to provisionally proceed
see the woods through groping trees
then take befitting breather there
for neither cares propose opposing teams
swivel round to face with grace the recreative middle ground
where little is as hopeless as it seems
should unspoken hurt
speak in curt tongue unspun
as we run to the sun to confer
then go one to one with the moon
to attune to the new path of true heart traversed

.

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees
every feeling we’re revealing
we are seen

(we are seen)
(seen)

.

harbouring no guarded hurts
curtailed from hailed departure
bleeding pure
of famed demure
we claim the ancients armour
withstand every scream
for we are seen with ceaseless ardour
therefore never need plead deeds to be alone

in the age of innocence
no more sincere a tone
than that revealing feeling
thus appealing to belief in stealing home

.

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees
every feeling we’re revealing
we are seen

.

with both sun and moon to guide us
we could paint the skyline violet
with true eyes upon the prize
to redefine the touch of midas
speak of bleak horizons
only when we need reminders
that the worst precursed
has been dispersed behind us

.

through the desolate planes
with a head full of steam
in the clouds
there is famed
a most elegant dream
where pure love profound
is the resident theme
has been gowned in pre-eminent gene

.

through the never
ever after
from the floorboards to rafters and farther hereafter
a masterful scene
bedecked in the jewels
borne of kings and of queens
with the wings of the skies and the thighs of the seas

.

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees

every cycle in hindsight foreseen

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees
every feeling we’re revealing
we are seen
.

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees

every cycle in hindsight foreseen

stealing home by the rosé skin on our knees
every feeling we’re revealing
we are seen
(we are seen)
.

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of 1-800 Sundial pays homage to Steal My Sunshine by Len.

Listen to 1-800 Sundial by Richard Charles Stevens (Reveal The Sunshine Suite)

Remember always
The smile of a flower
The taste of a kiss from the sun
The endless walkways you have faced
And the grace with which every foot race has been run
.
Remember always
The tears of every duct once wrung
The years you nearly came undone
The days when clearly you played dumb
The weeks that soon changed into months
Defeats paraded all at once
Then take great comfort from all you have overcome
.
Naked to the flowers which empower bones to enthrone them
Hero of the hour with towering heart apart wide open
Remember always
That every shower tides the ocean
Once we glance behind to power forward motion
.
Motion
(Motion)
Motion
(Motion)
Motion
(Motion)
Motion
(Motion)
.
Remember always
The games you played in school hallways
The way it felt when out of place
The cards they dealt
The poker face
Knowing full well you were different from the rest of the curriculum
The silence that replaced your rightful place to be articulate
Remember always
That there was one thing in particular
That made you most dissimilar to those whose hopes lay wasted
Every sun kiss tasted
Is a day redecorated
To midsummer night a dream
And every reason left to chase it
.
Remember always
The miles you traversed
The curses you lifted
The furthered ellipsis
The taste of a kiss from the sun
The endless walkways you have run
And the grace with which you ably overcome
(Come Come)
Remember
All the ways
To taste the sun
(Come Come)
.
I know it’s up for me
(Reveal the sunshine)
Making sure I’m not in too deep
(Reveal the sunshine)
Keeping versed and on my feet
(Reveal the sunshine)
.
Remember
All the ways
To taste the sun
.

I know it’s done for me
(Reveal the sunshine)
Not some and hard to see
(Reveal the sunshine)
Keeping dumb and built to beat
(Reveal the sunshine)
.
Remember
All the ways
To taste the sun
.
Spun from the lace
Of another time and place
(Reveal the sunshine)
And in contrary way
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
.
Spun from the lace
Of another time and place
(Reveal the sunshine)
And in contrary way
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
.
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
You’ve barely just begun
(Reveal the sunshine)
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of A Stitch or Nine pays homage to Yeah! Yeah! by Marc Smith.

Listen to A Stitch or Nine by Richard Charles Stevens (Yeah! Yeah! Suite)

Incubate the seed

Incubate the seed belief can feed
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine

Make somebody’s day
And pay it forward
Head down to the deep south
Facing northward
Matters not one jot if you are awkward in your stance
Strangers may appreciate the glance

Only takes one smile
To place a warm glow in the heart
Embracing artform sworn to go the extra mile
Only takes one kind act
To in turn deserve another
Thus discovering a place to rest awhile
Only we possess the tools
To press on through each crested fall
And still come to in some place fresh and scenic
Only we possess the tools
To press on through each crested fall
And still come to in some place fresh and scenic

Grant somebody’s wish
To gift inspire
When they lift you
Elevate them higher
Matters not one jot if you are teetering from spire
Seafaring eyes prize the frequent flyer
(Change the world)

Change the world
Change the world

Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)

Only takes one second
To undress the flesh of bind
Step out of the skin we’re in
And leave the rest behind
Only takes one destiny
To wink at fate suggestively
Only takes one deed
To act in kind

Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine

Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)

Make somebody’s dream come true
To see the sunlight beaming through
Windows to a soul supposed to glow
Matters not one jot the ebb and flow of essence undertowed
Only that there’s some place left to go
(Change the world)

Only takes hello
To open up communication lines
Only takes one back
To track wherein reciprocation lies
Only takes one brush
To paint in strokes as open broad or fine
Only takes one lucky star
To redefine the skies
Astride the borderline
(Change the world)

Redefine the skies
Astride the borderline
Redefine the skies
Redefine the skies
Redefine the skies
Astride the borderline
(Change the world)

Change the world
It only takes one stitch to change the world
(Change the world)

Only takes one scar
To see a thousand tales end well
Only takes one pouting kiss
To tell
Grant somebody’s wish
And lift them higher than yourself
For it only takes one stitch
To change the world

Only takes one scar
To see a thousand tales end well
Only takes one pouting kiss
To tell
Grant somebody’s wish
And lift them higher than yourself
For it only takes one stitch
To change the world
(Change the world)

Only takes one stitch
Only takes one stitch
Only takes one stitch
To change the world

Only takes one stitch
Only takes one stitch
It only takes one stitch
To change the world
(Change the world)

Only takes one smile
To place a warm glow in the heart
Embracing artform sworn to go the extra mile
(Change the world)
Only takes one kind act
To in turn deserve another
Thus discovering a place to rest awhile
(Change the world)

Only takes one
Only takes one stitch
Only takes one
Only takes one stitch
Only takes one
Only takes one stitch
It only takes one stitch
To change the world
(Change the world)
(Whirl)

Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)
(Whirl)
Incubate the seed belief can feed to breathe progressively
Togetherly in ever matching twine
(Change the world)
(Whirl)

Only takes one scar
To see a thousand tales end well
(Change the world)
(Whirl)
Only takes one pouting kiss
To tell
(Change the world)
(Whirl)
Grant somebody’s wish
And lift them higher than yourself
(Change the world)
(Whirl)
For it only takes one stitch
To change the world
(Change the world)

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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The original version of We has been published in All of Me Vol. IV, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Air of Perdition by Matt Gray.

Listen to We by Richard Charles Stevens (Air of Permission Suite)

frowns are merely gowns we wear when running late for balls
crowns of thorns are less severe in decorative jewels
autumn leaves can still take flight when victimised by fall
ocean breeze delighted in when arctic hearts are warmed

.
destiny need not vacate when fate hath been forewarned
advantageousness need not be so denied and scorned
favour need not waiver rights to sight the manor born
disclaimer need not countersign despairing of the mourned

.
life need not be nearly the whodunnit that they covet
need to seek the angels who will cradle us
enable us to turn the tables on the cruellest fate and overcome it

.

we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
we are forevermore enough
we are forevermore enough
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
.
we are kings
we are queens
we are
butterflies and bees
we are
lions wolves and mice
lionesses and the like
we are light
we are shade
every flavour in-between
we are night
we are day
we are never less than seen

.
we are bruised
and we are scarred
we are battle hardened veterans
thriving through artistry
striving for betterment
bleeding through arteries
each a new masterpiece
this is why our hearts so gently weep
.

we are forevermore enough
we are forevermore enough
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
.

we are forevermore enough
we are forevermore enough
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
(charmed)
.

we are keen to be remembered
by the embers in our trail
every bleed we prevail
is a season to hail
spring
summer
fall
winter
all four breathed anew
feel not bitter when we wither
yet are sweeter when we bloom
.
we skip heartily through leaves
which breathe beneath bare feet
we are charmed by the breeze
as we glance passing trees
kissing branches
we are artists
with the very farthest reach
stretched across river wild to ocean deep
.
we are whispers
we are screams
we are every waking dream
we are castles in the sky
we are treasures of the deep
we are meek
we are mild
we are wild and obscene
we are night
we are day
we are never less than seen
.
we are naked in our gowns
dress the greatest of renown
we are kings
we are queens
with no need to sport crowns
we are here
we are there
we are lost
we are found
we are vocal in our silences
unspoken wired to sound

.

we are everything
and nothing less
when suffering for art
we wear our curses
yet feel blessed
when gently weeping hearts
gently weeping hearts
gently weeping hearts
we wear our curses
yet feel blessed
when gently weeping hearts

.

we are first light
we are very last dance
we are day
we are night
when we leave the rest to chance
we are pure
we are love
we fall down to rise above
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
.

life need not be nearly the whodunnit that they covet
need to seek the angels who will cradle us
enable us to turn the tables on the cruellest fate and overcome it

.

we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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Be A God has been published in All of Me Vol. V, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Higher by 4 Mega.

Listen to Be A God by Richard Charles Stevens (Higher Suite)

Be a god
Be that fire ice or snow
Be almighty in delight of every starlight down below
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
(Be a god)
.
Reignite the flame
Reignite the flame
Reignite the flame
.
Be a god
(Be a god)
Be that fire ice or snow
Be almighty in delight of every starlight down below
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
.
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
(Be a god)
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
.
The only one delivering our dreams the knock out blow
Is ourselves
Sat atop our dusty shelves
We flat refuse to trust compel to thrust ourselves into excel
Unjust our swell
Of fears unfounded
Years of lustre hushed and grounded
No kiss left to tell
Crushed by selves the knell is sounded
Wishing wells shut down
Impounded
Dead cells treading eggshells
As we shed skin in our treadwells
Not a single thing is destined then to end well
.
Be a god
.
(Be a)
Be a god
Be that land
Be that sea
Be that air winds or trees
Be that flighted through high tide
Or underlying ocean deep
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
(Be a god)
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
(Be a god)
(Reignite the flame)
.
(Reignite the flame)
(Reignite the flame)
.
The lilies in our livers
Are forgiven when they grow
Their mighty intuition
Reconsidered of tempo
We trust our guts although they jut
Through tummies overrun with cuts
These ducts then heal when we reveal
The simplest memento spilled
.
Be a god
God
.
Bare souls feel
When dressed in glow
Groomed to be the best in show
(Groomed to be the best in show)
(Best in show)
(Best in show)
Presumably the nesting holes
For heavy rumoured destined goals
Majestic oak
And heading rows of red root quenched
Then bled arose
Red root quenched
Then bled arose
Red root quenched
Then bled arose
The darling buds
Self love thereof
Encourage us
To be the gods
.
Be the gods
Gods
.
Be the gods
Be the gods
.
Be the gods
Be the gods
.
Gods
We dreamt of
Long ago
When we swelled justly
Unbeknownst
That wildflowers grow
To lead us home
When seen to reap the seeds we sow
Within our keep
There seats a throne
For our redeem alone
Esteemed we are
When weeds be overgrown
.
Be a god
(Be a god)
Be that fire ice or snow
Be almighty in delight of each horizon down below
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
.
Be a god
Be that land
Be that sea
Be that air winds or trees
Be that flighted through high tide
Or underlying ocean deep
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
.
Be a god
Be that fire ice or snow
Be almighty in delight of each horizon down below
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
.
Sat astride our dusty shelves
We flat refuse to trust compel to thrust ourselves into excel
Unjust our swell
Of fears unfounded
Years of lustre hushed and grounded
No kiss left to tell
Crushed by selves the knell is sounded
Wishing wells shut down
Impounded
Dead cells treading eggshells
As we shed skin in our treadwells
Not a single thing is destined then to end well
.
The lilies in our livers
Are forgiven when they grow
Their mighty intuition
Reconsidered of tempo
We trust our guts although they jut
Through tummies overrun with cuts
These ducts then heal when we reveal
The simplest memento spilled
.
Gods
We dreamt of
Long ago
When we swelled justly
Unbeknownst
Wildflowers grow
To lead us home
When seen to reap the seeds we sow
Within our keep
There seats a throne
For our redeem alone
Esteemed we are
When weeds be overgrown
.
Be a god
Be that land
Be that sea
Be that air winds or trees
Be that flighted through high tide
Or underlying ocean deep
Reignite the flame
That simmers in the rivers of your soul
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
.
Be a god
And be the giver of their flow
(Reignite the flame)
(Reignite the flame)
(Reignite the flame)
Be a god
(Reignite the flame)
Be a god
(Reignite the flame)
Be a god
Be a god
(Reignite the flame)
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Love Transfusion pays homage to Give A Little Love (Acen Remix) by Nookie.

Listen to Love Transfusion by Richard Charles Stevens (Give A Little Suite)

let it stay and play
let it stay and play
.
love is the message
this is why i spread it far and wide
why i choose to reflect every time i feel blessed by its dressing in kind
love isn’t blind
it’s why my wide eyes realign
when i bid swift recline in shade
why the magic tree need never be so faraway
love can be expressive in so very many ways
once we do our level best to let it stay and play
.

L before O
before V
before E
one four letter word and sound reason to breathe
.
L before O
before V
before E
one four letter word and sound reason to breathe
.

L before O
before V
before E
one four letter word and sound reason to breathe
.

love will find a way provide a hideaway on danger days
realign our major aims reliant on trust funds
more than simply plus one thus one step away from free
when someone stands beside us and reminds us that we’re seen

.
love is often viewed as tea for two and need to know
love addresses harvest moon with every seed we sow
love has but one point to prove
attuned to speedy growth
of something pure and simple—truth be known

.
a safe place
ours to decorate

a safe place
ours to decorate

a safe place
ours to decorate
as home
.
speedy growth
of something pure and simple—truth be known
a safe place
ours to decorate
as home
.
foundations shake when they’re made on false stone
boundaries chafe when we claim souls our own
they can be given
to infinite keep
providing we supply them with the freedom to breathe
need not commit to the sinking of teeth
when a full heart knows best how to willingly bleed
.

love is the message
need not seem obscene
knows how to guide us through turbulent seas
camps out inside us all set to release
when we learn how to give and accept it with ease
fervent and keen each excursion foreseen
through stargazing eyes that invite us to reach for our dreams
.

L before O
before V
before E
one four letter word and sound reason to breathe
.
L before O
before V
before E
one four letter word and sound reason to breathe
.
love will find a way provide a hideaway on danger days
realign our major aims reliant on trust funds
more than simply plus one thus one step away from free
when someone stands beside us and reminds us that we’re seen
.
love makes suggestion we say what we see
make someone’s day when they see what we say
make someone’s week when we speak the same tongue
do this enough we may make someone’s month
.
teach them to run every miracle mile
make them feel safe as they take every plunge
break chains and face every clinical trial
with feelings no longer expunged
.
love takes exception to claim that our race has been run

.
love is affectionate endlessly brave when outgunned
(love is the message
need not seem obscene)
.
why my wide eyes realign
when i bid swift recline in shade
why the magic tree need never be so faraway
love can be progressive in so very many ways
once we do our level best to better dress its praise
.
L before O
before V
before E
one four letter word so much more when concurred
to be seen
to be heard
need not seem to be absurd
indeed we owe it to ourselves to venture keen
.
love supplies a timely high to all five active senses
love can go the distance
even farther when extended
love is what we make it
not so only when we fake it
love’s cool breeze is all we need to rise from fallen autumn leaves
if only we climb tallest tree and shake it
then all we see can be divine and sacred
love can be expressive in so very many ways
once we do our level best to let it stay and play
.

love can open up our eyes to other places spaces times
love is sweet when vulnerable and sweeter still bared naked
love can heal a heart in half the time that hate can break it
love reveals no part in crimes frustrated through blind hatred
love needs not a counterpart
to bid decline to downward arc
its art defines real lives not imitated
.
love proceeds upstandingly when ceasing to forsake it
given open-handedly there’s no real need to take it
love can make a point and promptly prove it
love can take an aching joint and soothe it
love is medication
doubles up as a first aid kit
true love is so much better than the movies

.
should not come and go just as it chooses
for when love snoozes
everybody loses
.
love invests in wealth of stealth potential
love begets itself when seen as healthy and essential
love yourselves
love all you see
it never need be wasted
bleed it unconditionally
receive it back legitimately
intimately back it
and embrace it
for while love may seem like fiction
for a simple fact
it’s sacred

.

while love may seem like fiction
for a simple fact
it’s sacred

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Amplify pays homage to The Lost City by Sub Love.

Listen to Amplify by Richard Charles Stevens (The Lost City Suite)

Herein thine sweetness amplifies

.

You are my one thing meant to be
You were my feeling when everything felt dead to me
A love bereft of ceiling
No denying or concealing
Seeing only to believe that we can reach the greens of Eden
And with feeling
Then succeed them transcendentally
Revealing the belief
That we were meant to be
.

You are fundamental to the beat within my chest
Feel it with your fingertips
It weeps for your caress

.

Herein thine sweetness amplifies

.
Fearlessly I tread these waters
Set to leap
Hindquarters poised to slice through white noise deafening
And silence its bleak reckoning
Jewels bedecked in every stride
Dual effect and synchronised
Pools of tears wept crystallised
Deep-dyed respect solidified
Virtue nowise misapplied
No vice
Each action dignified
By moonlit rivers sanctified
Wherein thine sweetness amplifies
.

Virtue nowise misapplied
No vice
Each action dignified
By moonlit rivers sanctified
Wherein thine sweetness amplifies
.

You are fundamental to the beat within my chest
Feel it with your fingertips
It weeps for your caress

Such grace
Finesse
Such sweet excess
And never one thing less than blessed
Every breath released majestic
Very best of me invested
.

You are fundamental to the beat within my chest
Feel it with your fingertips
It weeps for your caress

Such grace
Finesse
Such sweet excess
And never one thing less than blessed
Every breath released majestic
Very best of me invested
.

Herein thine sweetness amplifies

(Amplify)

.

I love our love
Shall glorify its essence
Wear it as a gown profoundly intricate in dressing
Done with convalescence
Less inclined to get well soon
For madness is my privilege
Held captive next to you
.

You are my one thing meant to be
For all intent and purpose
You’re the angel at my table
The crimson tide that blushes veins with gushing praise unprecedented
Ventricles a sprawled appendix
Every tendon yours
Cemented
Said I would adore the one forevermore
And meant it
For you’re the one
The only one
I ever once reflected
.

Said I would adore the one forevermore
And meant it
For you’re the one
The only one
I ever once reflected

.

You are my one thing meant to be
You were my feeling when everything felt dead to me
A love bereft of ceiling
No denying or concealing
Seeing only to believe that we can reach the greens of Eden

And with feeling
Then succeed them transcendentally
Revealing the belief
That we were meant to be
.
(Amplify)
.
There are flowers in your bones
And every one is lovely
Hopeful odes composed to meadows evergreen and summery
Our love bereft of ceiling
No denying or concealing
Seeing only to believe that we can reach the greens of Eden
.

You are fundamental to the beat within my chest
Feel it with your fingertips
It weeps for your caress

Such grace
Finesse
Such sweet excess
And never one thing less than blessed
Every breath released majestic
Very best of me invested
.

You are fundamental to the beat within my chest
Feel it with your fingertips
It weeps for your caress

Such grace
Finesse
Such sweet excess
And never one thing less than blessed
Every breath released majestic
Very best of me invested

.

I love our love
Shall glorify its essence
Wear it as a gown profoundly intricate in dressing
Done with convalescence
Less inclined to get well soon
For madness is my privilege
Held captive next to you
.

I love our love
Shall glorify its essence
Wear it as a gown profoundly intricate in dressing
Done with convalescence
Less inclined to get well soon
For madness is my privilege
Held captive next to you
.
You are my one thing meant to be
For all intent and purpose
You’re the angel at my table
The crimson tide that blushes veins with gushing praise unprecedented
Ventricles a sprawled appendix
Every tendon yours
Cemented
Said I would adore the one forevermore
And meant it
For you’re the one
The only one
I ever once reflected
.

Said I would adore the one forevermore
And meant it
For you’re the one
The only one
I ever once reflected
.
Amplify
(Amplify)
Amplify
(Amplify)

Amplify
(Amplify)

Herein thine sweetness amplifies

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Stainless pays homage to Escape From New York by John Carpenter.

Listen to Stainless by Richard Charles Stevens (New Yorker Suite)

In this dream state
I am weightless
Ancient keepsake
Of the ageless
.

Had to be courageous
In the face of flaming pyre
Had to grieve in stages
To explain the trailing wire

(Feel a sweet ache
It is painless)
Gather all the traces
Of remaining vague desire
Put myself through paces
In the name of raising fire

(As these tears fade
I am stainless)
.

Had to blaze flirtatious
To escape from grave disaster
Be put through my paces
With the aim of running faster

(Seek unique ways
To exchange gifts)
Reacquaint my yesterdays
With better days hereafter
Demonstrate the state of grace
Acclaimed of great forefathers
(Thus exceed gains
When the veil lifts)
.

Every faint glimpse
Of innate bliss
Is a quaint kiss
To my pale lips
.

Had to play the river
To enable faith to blind me
Had to stay and glimmer
For the waifs and strays behind me
Had to break the stigma
Or else take the fate advised me
Had to play enigma
To escape the maze designed me
.

Make discreet way
To oasis
Should I keep faith
Turn the pages

.

Had to squeeze the trigger slow
To blow my brains inside me
Had to seek a place to go
Disgrace would never find me

(Weep a keepsake
Of the ages)
Had above foreseen below
Then I’d have smiled politely
Even so
I would have shown
The love known to ignite me

(As these tears fade
I am stainless)
.
Had above foreseen below
Then I’d have smiled politely
Even so
I would have shown
The love known to ignite me

(As these tears fade
I am stainless)
.
In this dream state
I am lifted
Feel the sweet rain
Of ellipsis
See the sun play
Blow it kisses
Save the moon face
And eclipse it
.
Need not run raids
On the one place
Where on glum days
I am lifted
Having won praise
Of the sun rays
In this moon phase
I then shifted
.
In this dream state
I am weightless
In the deep space
Ever spacious
With the keen grace
Of a Geisha
As these tears fade
I am stainless
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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RSVP has been published in All of Me Vol. V, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Bad by Michael Jackson. Featured art is by Brian Kirhagis.

Listen to RSVP by Richard Charles Stevens (Bad To Worse Suite)

Dragonflies romanticising termites teasing
Magnifying
Analysing
Gratifying seedlings
.

Dragonflies romanticising termites teasing
Magnifying
Analysing
Gratifying seedlings

.
The satsumas were strewn across tangerine dreams
I assume they were there to declare fruitful reap
Mangos danced tangos in hearty fandango
So far from home yet only halfway from canto
The cantaloupes sloped to provoke finger limes
Leaving clementines the hosts with most to prize

.

Wildflowers showered affectionate petals
That kissed to tell tall tales of petulant nettles

Ladybugs hugged the tall grass as they passed over cloverleaves briefly to please
.

The centipedes eventually remembered where they’re meant to be
Suggestively the millipedes agreed
.
Mother nature nurtured every wildflower foreseen
Empowered planet earth to intervene
And while her methods may have been a little bit extreme
She certainly knew how to throw a party
.
The camel with the hammer toe made no attempt to hide
The razzle known to dazzle in its independent stride
The ostriches were furious
And curiously keen to go full emu on the lemurs while the harmless llamas leaned
Drunken monkeys hung from trees
Poking fun at summer breeze
Bums on seats a stunning feat
With two left feet and tongue in cheek
Baffled were the badgers
While the beavers deemed it heedless choking gophers unbeknownst to nosey beaks
.
Harmless llamas
In pyjamas
Daft bananas
Charming Dahmers
Otter hockey
Jabberwocky
Drunken monkeys
Sunken flunkies
.

Mother nature nurtured every wildflower foreseen
Empowered planet earth to intervene
And while her methods may have been a little bit extreme
She certainly knew how to throw a party

.

There’s a yak out back waxing backs cracks and sacks

While combat wombats launch counter-attacks

.

The punch drunk skunks are clutching their junk

While the ferrets inherit a pheasant to clutch

.

There are terrapins developing a crush for blushing elephants

Touching up the skunks and the infernal funk is evident

.

Piglets in the twiglets with a thing for twitching cygnets

.

Cassowaries on safari making pass at Mata Hari

.

Mother nature nurtured every wildflower foreseen
Empowered planet earth to intervene
And while her methods may have been a little bit extreme
She certainly knew how to throw a party

.

Mother nature nurtured every wildflower foreseen
Empowered planet earth to intervene
And while her methods may have been a little bit extreme
She certainly knew how to throw a party

.

Knitting quips while sitting on their fences are the flies
As they vomit out their varnish just to tarnish the termites

.

The tortoise smiles and lends its shell to save the China crockery
Sips in shade and makes a playful mockery of broccoli

.

Mother nature nurtured every wildflower foreseen
Empowered planet earth to intervene
And while her methods may have been a little bit extreme
She certainly knew how to throw a party
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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