We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Decorative Peasant - SPOKEN

from CANADADA: TAKE TWO by M.L.Holton - Canadian Poet

/

  • Collector's Edition CD: 35 Spoken Word & Musical Tracks by Canadian Artist, M.L.Holton.
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Spoken words of potent poetry by Canadian artist, M.L.Holton, parallels the narrative nuances of her personalized music.
    A unique SOUND CELEBRATION of Canadiana.
    Slimcase CD with 4 colour panel insert.

    Includes unlimited streaming of CANADADA: TAKE TWO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 CAD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Where do we stand on the planet? What ARE we DOING?

lyrics

The Decorative Peasant

From my vantage boudoir point
of West of Center
- or Left of Center
- or Right of Center –
depending if you politically gaze
on - or out - or in at

I watch the continual
movement surge
ebb and flow
of urban, suburban, rural humanity
course along the young blood
of this my Canadian civilization

My own beating heart heaves
harmoniously
alternating panic with patience
adjusting to nuances of
mechanic and organic
insurgence

I peel
a plumb purple grape
plucked from the cluster bounty
of my small garden
and pop its full bodied ripeness
into my mouth, then after
crave that mysterious
envelope of skin

This shocking discovery
of succulent voluptuousness
disorients profoundly
my hap-hazard
analytical watchful
Being

- for a brief instant
the Center shifts –

as Lifeness ripples rapidly
down
to the scarlet tips of
my budding toes

I gaze outward again
to regain my bearings
and yes, all is as it was before
(All was is as it is was before)

I furtively pull out another grape
from the clipped cluster
and methodically peel back
the hardened weather-exposed
encasement of purple epidermis
and once more pop
that fleshy perfect orb inward
to taste again
that sweet n-wow-ness

credits

from CANADADA: TAKE TWO, released March 15, 2017
M.L.Holton - Poem & Voice

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

MLHolton image

MLHolton Ontario

Self-taught, award-winning, senior artist, author & filmmaker from the Golden Horseshoe Region of Southern Ontario, Canadada.... In sum, a devoted advocate of 'Serious Fun'.

contact / help

Contact MLHolton

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like MLHolton, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now