#poem #spokenword After the success and good feels of my collab with Nick (@nfshakespeare), "Snowblower," I decided to do a bit of spokenword poetry over music on my own. Usually, I'm a short poem man, but this one ended up being a full 20 minutes reading time (this is why you're getting a YouTube link instead of an upload to FAWM... 20 minute mp3s don't fit). That gave me the option of not simply creating a piece of music to accompany it, but of creating a music suite to accompany various elements of the arc of the poem differently. I recorded the poem first. Then, using Suno's studio feature, prompted various sorts of music to accompany and support the reading at various points along the way. There is much more I could do with it, and I learned a lot on this project. I'm certain I will take that into several upcoming projects!

I'm pleased with it.

For context, the poem is based upon my own personal journaling in response to a singular session with my therapist. It is a bit confessional I suppose, but all very real and quite honest.

I cannot fit the entire poem into the "lyric" section, so I'm placing a link to the pdf in several places here. This is one of them: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yhbfbxqkf7lmdemn963wh/Who-I-Am-in-November.pdf?rlkey=cx5w765yp174pdoyokxtr7g9z&st=4rm9dm0l&dl=0

Download a pdf of the poem here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yhbfbxqkf7lmdemn963wh/Who-I-Am-in-November.pdf?rlkey=cx5w765yp174pdoyokxtr7g9z&st=4rm9dm0l&dl=0