[Poem Share] Morning Breath by the Caffeinated Sophist

You become a dragon in the morning,
did you know?
Wake up early, very early, just as the sun
rises beyond the color turning trees.
It’s best to do this just as you get out of that warm
cocoon that you slept in all night.
I also find comfort, and for a little warmth,
to have a nice steamy dark cup of coffee
in hand, sipping and smelling.
Step outside, the transformation is starting;
take a sip, then breathe in slow and deep,
through your nose.
Then,
Blow out slow and small; now watch!
You are a dragon now!
Breathing smoke and steam into the air.
Now smile,
your childhood is back in your heart warming
what once was cold from days of work.
You are a dragon!
And here, in the mornings,
is your Dragon Morning Breath!

[Music Shout]

I love all types of music. There are some genres I typically stay away from (e.g. pop, rap, country, etc.,), but do like some songs or artists that come from said genres, which makes me a non-discrimitory listener, though I deffintally have a particular taste.

Mostly I love Jazz, Blues, Classical (which I find it strange it being called, since some "classical" music has been made in the 21st century), Ethnic/World (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Mongolian, etc., folk/traditional music), some Rock, Reggae/Island music, some Chinese pop, some Japanese pop, some Korean pop, even some New Age, and more.

That is where "Music Shout's" will come in. From now on, every now and then, I will place some posts with certain music that I like to share and talk about. I also hope people will make comments about what they think of the song(s) within each Music Shout.

This first Music Shout goes out to Beethoven; my utmost favorite of his works is the small piece Moonlight Sonata. Most people do not like the piano piece, since (to them) it is very solemn or depressing. To me it is relaxing. Turn off the lights, have a cup of hot jasmine tea or small espresso near by, everything off except the stereo on loud and repeat, close your eyes and let the music move you. Each note of this song is so powerful, you feel both the artist's (the one that is actually playing the piece) pain and the pain from Beethoven, whom wrote it. But you also feel this relaxing ease, as if the song is saying, "although there is pain, be at peace, because it will pass." The song always strikes my soul, and at times I feel like crying, not out of sorrow, but because the sorrow is lifted and I find my peace again. Thank you, Ludwig van Beethoven, for your brilliance and you pouring your soul into this piece.

[Poem Share] Refill Me, Please! by the Caffeinated Sophist

The heat, the bright sun, and the heat;
practically nothing to do but stay in to avoid
the heat, the bright sun, and the heat.

There isn’t much I like about summer.
Only one, noting but one essence of summer I like;
that being the great cool rain storms.

Not the typical drizzle from a cloudless sky;
nor the afternoon passerby with hot drops that sizzle
and with hotter stale almost nonexistent wind.
Especially, most especially not from the rainless,
greenish, grayish, clouds with yellow sparks dancing,
dancing(!) in the heavens, teasing the dry earth, and friends of the earth.

No, storms I like are the ones that fill your body –

- with energy from their strong gusts;
ones with brilliant displays of effulgent and incandescent lightening
and plangent and booming thunder that shakes the ground and buildings;
ones with blackening rolling tall columns of giants,
giants with large pales of water at the ready to pour down.

These! These storms, that last for hours, the capability -
to bring the temperature down many of several degrees,
and make night life in summer not only enjoyable, but give life!
These storms, make day life livable, for the next day the air –
is breathable again, life within trees seems renewed, and
and my heart is renewed by their energy, their life, life again!