Kaleidoscopes & Tightropes | Poem by Brit Nicole @poeticallybrit
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Kaleidoscopes & Tightropes
I let you go.
Slipping through my fingers
Like water on the run
You were never mine to catch
Knew it from the moment we met
We smiled and I saw the future
Friends forever? maybe
Lovers? Not yet
I'm way too awkward to have swag
Just brought along my pen and pad
Thought to make use of my offering
In an attempt amuse you
Muse you, include you
Until I started writing dope lines that infused you
For when I couldn't muster up a simple "hello"
Started sending silly little love notes
That allowed you access to my psyche
Not sure how far I wanted this to go
The lies we tell ourselves
If anything, the heart always knows
We commenced, the writing was on the wall
An enigma became us
Curiosity led me to fall
Kaleidoscopes and tightropes
My nerves went through it all
Late nights, early mornings
Still, I knew something was wrong
I would scribble your name in my melody
Until you became my song
Set the track on repeat
So you could always put me on
Closed my eyes for just a moment
It was no surprise, you were gone
I must be that sucker for love
Who longs for the many signs
Like the ribbon in the sky
Chasing the clouds
Begging for their blessing
To let your heart find mine
Playing devil's advocate to my own lies
As the truth played back
While I laid back in my own mind
"He's not the one"
So I ask myself, what am I doing
Why even try
To love without relent
If in the end you say goodbye
Encountering a mental deficit
From poor emotional investment
Growing weary from my giving
But in my giving, I'm strengthened within
In the name of love or something like it
I'd do it all over again
Though it's getting harder to breathe
Do not be deceived
If chance should acquaint me once more, I will not hesitate
This is me saying yes to love again before I suffocate.
/Brit Nicole @poeticallybrit
Eddie Jame$ - Lottery (video submission)
/Let me get a PICK 3.
Showing up with his video “Lottery”, Eddie Jame$ is showing us discreetly about that life.
Shiny coat and all [its a look], the visuals move natural to a track that has a nice little sway to it. A few punchlines, some ego, and some wit, it's catchy.
Eddie Jame$ is a wild card in the current MKE music scene. And you know what you do with a wild card right?
Keep it ready. You might even win the “Lottery”.
/CW
Shun Millions - More To Say (EP submission)
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It’s Shun time! The moment, the movement, the method. . . We are betting on Mr. Millions.
No longer can we call this one a youngin’. With growth and experience laying down the bars, Shun Millions is still smooth rolling with those Northside MKE to Cali vibes. The clean production and atmospheric rap riffs create a moment. Is it freeze frame high vibes? Hazy elevation? Raindrops rolling down the window panes? Whatever the intention the execution is we cant turn it off.
Fav Track: “Time Up” [it's just the right one]
We have had the privilege of seeing Shun bloom as an artist and this project shows that our early predictions about his sound were right.
If you haven't been listening before, it's not too late. Clearly he has “More To Say”.
Lexi for /CW
#SoWasYouReallySleepingAtYourBrothersHouse| Poem by Diana Mora @natureallydye
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I asked for someone to pour into me
As much as I poured into
myself
I know
I’ve been selfish
Still you renamed me
Dye
I’ll let you leave with the credit of that
A star in your dark sky
You claimed light
Just a star in
your galaxy
holds many
Poems I wrote on your birthday
Where I named
“As warm as RAH”
Would’ve been dead enough
Should’ve been enough
I thought that the shared pain of people leaving us on the 7th day of the 3rd month
Was enough
Pain exchanged
Feel your hurt
So I could heal you ?
Ever felt mine ?
Thinking the Gods did that for us
That’s what you Mumbled
As
Your
Tears were heard through phones
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Protect me
Yet the protection that came with the contract you disclosed had me sign
Then VOID !
Never having a chance to call this our own
Never having the chance to call my insides your home
It don’t even hurt the same
Poems don’t even flow the same
Because
Fuck Niggas
Think Their
Godly Niggas
But
Fuck Niggas
And Fuck Niggas
Is ironically spelled the same way
Yet means totally different things
Fuck Niggas ain’t shit
I hate Fuck Niggas
Totally different content
Yet
You seem to have fallen under both catalogs
“What you beg me for fuck nigga ?”
“Why’d he ask me to change”
“FUCK NIGGAS”
I said to myself as I looked in the mirror
Fuck Niggas
As I grabbed
My chest
Pain
Silent promises
We made
Turned into
Loud
Truthful lies
In front of everybody
Yet
Again
“DYE DON’T YOU FUCKIN CRY”
I weeped on that floor
I believed in you
“That was it for you”
I repeated in my pulse
I almost gave myself to you
I almost gave myself to you
Explain to me why
I felt bad for loving him too
Explain to me why that night I laid with him as the sky changed from dark blue to light blue
I called you
I felt bad for betraying you
I felt bad for telling him I love you
I felt bad for telling YOU I loved him too
Now look at you ?
I was going to teach how to move your earth..??
IT HURTS !!!!
I think you know me enough to know
My poems don’t ever have to Rhyme
That
My love
My being
Had never made sense till the day
I saw my reflection in your eyes
Ask me again why I can’t look in your eyes ?
I see bad parts of
Me when
I look at you
So
I stopped writing poems
I told you everything
Even when it was hard
Even when it hurt
Even when it was ugly
You beat at my spirit
As I allowed you
You lied to my face
You lie to yourself
You deny me
You deny your soul
You hurt me
You hurt
Yourself
I poured into you
You
Drained
My well
You change the spelling in my name from Die /D/i/e to Dye D/y/e
Now allow me to reintroduced
My name is Dye
And she told me to remind you
That
every so often
Poems I wrote you
Would end with
Who are you ?
And where did you come from..
You are nothing to me
And it no longer matters where you come from
Because
I hold the power to send you to
Hell..
I’ll spare you
In hopes
that you realize that
One day
You
Need
You
As much as them hoes needs you
#SoWasYouReallySleepingAtYourBrothersHouse..
/Diana Mora @naturallydye
HymnWho - Apophenia4000 (EP submission)
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Are you in the mood for something different? Well get set because this one right here is out of this world.
Artist/producer/songwriter HymnWho is setting us up with some futuristic layers of production, synthesizing, and hypnotic lyricism. This sound might have an industry name, but we don’t want to box it in.
Apophenia4000 is a six track EP. It is a clever standout from the confines that resound the moniker “Milwaukee Music”. It is either crazy or genius, but either way its something to talk about.
Check it out and let us know what you think.
/CW
/CW Archive: Box of Markers | Poem by Jeronica Brister @__lovejeronica
/Here is poem form the /CW archive by one of our local faves Jeronica Brister. This poem was first published in Issue two of CopyWrite Magazine: Pen & Paper. Since then we have had the pleasure of seeing Jeronica grow as creative and quite an extraordinary soul.
/CW
2Hi - Flawless (video submission)
/“Give me 50 feet. You can’t catch the glow.”
Is it the DMV vibe, or the Bay undertones? Someone point it out for us! All we know is that 2Hi is giving us all the cocky swift lines we expect from a young blood.
With a dope visual created by @lxrdfredo and production by No B, there is something we can't quite put our finger on busting through the lines of creativity.
Just do what you doin 2Hi, it will come to us.
/CW
TG Music - RHYMELANGUAGE (project submission)
/Like fast rhymes? Well there is TG Music for that.
This midwest connect is back again with a layered project called RHYMELANGUAGE.
It’s a mix of experimental production, a soul sample, some fast bars, and a lot of mental twist.Is this word play. Mind f*ckin, and poetry? Maybe.
Our favorite track has to be “Dippin’ Around” with the fire sample and the line that made us go “damn”:
“Yea I really hate your guts but that has never got me in it.”
& on that note, we are out!
/CW
