Animals Like Us

So I pray Love...

The truth is:

As I grow old

and my hair changes shape,

I will remember how we sat on tulips

at that strange dance,

where a vulgar spirit could not feel

the words we spoke of childhood and our dark times.

You may remember when I had a different face,

the serpents' shadow,

a picture I code

that raises up the morning.

When I go off by myself sometimes 

and think of you; a prayer of wild stories for others.

I also think of how I have been in many lands

and never could find a way to halt death.

So come into my soul,

caress what is truly old.

When her glowing eyes turn,
Come into this circle of meat.
Where they have all disappeared.
You show yourself and then another,
gently moving the third eye
a subtle spirit strikes.
Wave no more.
We as a people just grunt
and wave no more.
Let us become new.
This snake is dangerous
and dying.
Shedding is needed,
no more of this crying.

Love has touched the lark
as red shadow
on a lucky day.
He sees what I am
Brightness of fire,
looking for miracles and a good laugh.
Never Lost.

Poem by Toni Oswald copyright

Happy New Year 2013

I am proud to release two new Music pieces for the New Year~ One of them is my early 4-track recordings that my sweet Max has mastered and the other piece is something Max and I did as a Surrealist music and spoken word performance dedicated to Luis Borges. I wish everyone good health, abundance, and good work for the coming year~ xo

Ic Explura - The Early 4-Track recordings~

http://tonioswald.bandcamp.com/

These dark hills dawning
owning no surprises
emitting fantastic glimpses
of distant chambers
dancing seas
the music coats
our vulnerable skins
kicks and such
oh to be the seam
and write these
love letters to you
who I don't even know
but it gives me grace.

_Toni Oswald


Forlu Is Borges By Max Davies and Toni Oswald

         http://maxdavies.bandcamp.com/releases

                                                                      

Scratches From The Imagination

meditations on demolished thoughts

I recently did a piece on Thurston Moore's album Demolished Thoughts, which is now published in Zani UK~
Here is the online link~

http://zani.co.uk/a-meditation-on-demolished-thoughts

~ For Maximilian

in the morning
i take off my shirt for Maximilian
and smile

Maximilian ~ Photo by Toni Oswald

Let's dance put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Let's dance to the song
they're playin' on the radio

Let's sway
while color lights up your face
Let's sway
sway through the crowd to an empty space

If you say run, I'll run with you
If you say hide, we'll hide
Because my love for you
Would break my heart in two
If you should fall
Into my arms
And tremble like a flower

Let's dance for fear
your grace should fall
Let's dance for fear tonight is all

Let's sway you could look into my eyes
Let's sway under the moonlight,
this serious moonlight

If you say run, I'll run with you
If you say hide, we'll hide
Because my love for you
Would break my heart in two
If you should fall
Into my arms
And tremble like a flower

Let's dance put on your red shoes
and dance the blues

Let's dance to the song
they're playin' on the radio

Let's sway you could look into my eyes
Let's sway under the moonlight,
this serious moonlight

Lyrics by David Bowie

Dear Dot Hacker

Dot Hacker's Album -  Inhibition


I recently did an album review of my friend Josh Klinghoffer's band Dot Hacker for a UK Magazine called Zani UK. Here it is and if you don't have the album I suggest you check it out..maybe the review will help you make that decision.
http://www.zani.co.uk/dear-dot-hacker 

Dot Hacker - Photo by Geoff Moore

I Love YouI love Big Dummy

i love you big dummy 

calling kiki fontaine

the saxophone player

foxy and the ghost 

hmmmmmm.............

blowing out clouds