Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  Love Poem Of A Psych Patient Blue ink — Black pen Describing it —— Therapist — Believing semantics  Can uncover  What is chemical —— A tale told by An idiot — Man’s systems  A Wiggles album —— The ways I feel For you Are beyond explanation — Watch me Closely —— Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.

  On exceptions to rules: Having created a manifesto of sorts, tension is invariably created and the artistic impulse to rebel rises daily.  But limitations, as Basho and the Haiku Masters found, generate imaginative responses and raised tenors. I have on occasion hand written in my paper notebook some notes as touchstones for my improvisations, much like Miles Davis and other Jazz Masters did. There’s where jazz exists beyond country blues. A product of the postmodern city and its hypercosmopolitan traditions and options. Anyway, another temporary picture. Another provisional sketch. I am convinced the spirit of the approach is sound. Best not to be mired in the letters of ‘laws,’ when geneses are born from the dynamic interplay of imagination and materiality xx Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023. https://danceparrot.bandcamp.com/

  Music & Words   I see it unadorned  I hear it sung from whispered lips  Sometimes soaring  Sometimes flat  I see it like life not like art  I want it to be discovered by an alien  Who does not know what it lacks  I want it to be amateurish  Who gets the occasional complimentary  I want it asymmetrical and atypical  I see it as unique  An example only of itself  I don’t want it to be tasteful  I want it to be graceful  I don’t mind if you only listen for a passing moment  As long as you listen in  & acknowledge that a man was here  Who’d live to tell a tale  A tale different to any other  No better, but just so no lesser  Don’t doubt it  Trust what you hear  Like you do  When you eavesdrop on a stranger  ©️ Malachi Doyle 2017. 6 years on it actually reads pretty close much of the time. I wasn’t intending to make a manifesto. I’ve continued a perilous...