Author: Candid Corvid Productions
(Still Awake · Uplift Music Lab)
Inversion
Days feel like
Lifetimes
Perhaps like
Moodswings
Capability of
A visionary’s
Expanding
Imagination
Dear Alex,
“I am sad that you are not here with me.
Sometimes, it feels like we will never be.”
Consistency
Dishes
Cat boxes
And dog pee
(Fallin’ – Alicia Keys)
(Fighting For Me · Riley Clemmons)
(Alive – Kx5 ft. The Moth And The Flame)
(Repost from July 16, 2023)
“Kiss Of Bliss” (Song)
Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
Is it wrong
Or ignoble
For me to ask
For our bliss
Am I a whore
Mere chattel
To own desire
For your kiss
In all the realms
Of kingdoms
No greater knight
Ensued
So why my Heart
My True love
Would I not
Give it all
To you?
—-
Elden court lyre with woodland melodies.
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(Let Me Take You There · Volkan Kuday)
Dear Friend,
If you want our healing
And if need my support
Help my world be stable
So I can be there for you
When Music Makes A Difference
Finding Kinship
I Just Want The Basics
Opinions On The State Of The Economy
You Look Happier
Emergin’ As The Villain
Guardians
When The King Stays
Friendship That Never Breaks
Film To See Pick: Mauri
The Art Of Noticing
A Mated Pair
“That Man” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
That man loves me
For once it’s real
That man loves me
With a heart of steel
You never know they’d say
With a jeer unconcealed
But that man’s worth
Is beyond repeal
And if you say
We haven’t got a chance
If you’d argue
Our circumstance
Well then friends you
Haven’t learned a thing
Of what makes a woman Queen
And a Man her King
—
Elden sass upon verdant grass melodies
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“Storm’s Arrival”
(Sleep Token – Portland Live Concert 2025)
“FU** YEAH!!!” (The Summoning – Sleep Token Live In Oakland 2025 Snippet)
https://youtube.com/shorts/m19I24PIvWA?si=8psosWnKoMTNPgsg
(Title regarding audience verbal outcry at the beginning – LOL, SAME!)
Word Of The Day: Appeal
Attractive or interesting / A serious or urgent request.
Oxford Languages
“Even Keel” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
How does a frightened heart settle
After taught by the world to flee?
How does a body recognize
When it’s found a home in safety?
How does a mind learn to trust that
Another can pilot the wheel?
How does a soul make eloquent
Entreaty for love’s appeal?
—
Elden lovers’ treatise melodies
(Title of and content of multiple meanings)
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In The Garden
But then, the little girl sobered, “Did you ever find your true love, grandma?”
Cassandra wistfully looked toward the window…
“That remains yet to be seen.”
Birds Of A Feather
Cassandra smiled at her granddaughter’s look of her mouth gaping open while she stared at her grandmother in wide-eyed astonishment.
Then they both jumped up, squeeling and trumpeting about in joy a bit as they did a little happy dance together, laughing and hard squeezy-hugging at Grandma’s wonderful surprise reveal – finished with a kiss on top of the beloved little girl’s head.
“Visions Of You” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
I’ve wondered about you
If inside you were like me
I’ve been searching
Far and wide you see
A partnership desired
Becoming legendary
The world as we know it
Needs love’s healing
And my friend
You and I do too
There’s no disguising
Nor debating truth
What makes you hesitate
What makes you bleed
Outside my door?
I’m willing to answer
You know my heart
Welcomes your banter
And though messy
Family’s renown
Is one of tried and
Proven dedication
To values that
We both uphold
Come now let’s
No longer deviate
Help me learn to cook
Let starvation abate
For we know and speak
The words longed for
Come forward and
Knock on my door
—
Hearth and Home Elden melodies
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“For Love Of Life” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
There are no longer legends
For death is ever present
A spectre always looming
To cast our hearts a’glooming
A jealous beast in waiting
Grips flesh in teeth a’tearing
To get at the soul – the meat
Of what makes love in life repleat
But what if we were to feed it
Garden leftovers to earth worms?
Could we somehow appease it
By felling decay in the green woods?
By tending to our planet
As caretakers of our ecosphere
Would longevity be granted
By innocence held again dear?
For then death would know fealty
By repast we all would share
It’d be welcome to extra helpings
For with plenty our love could spare
Whole bakeries full of flakey
Delicacies where none compare
If we joined in love’s communion
No one’s cupboards would be bare
—
Somber to lilting Elden chord melodies
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“A Great, Vasty Emptiness” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
Well of Souls in this
Emptiness of space
Where life bloomed once
Now diminished to trace
When hearts retract
Feeling under attack
By fears’ apprehension
Or encouragement’s lack
Like dust in the wind
Remains where’d begin
And burial grounds
Are what we’re left with
—-
Elden melodies of mourning.
(Title from a reference to the movie “Serenity”)
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Grandmother
“What happened to Cassandra, grandmother?” the little girl queried.
“Well, she roamed the seven seas and beyond – and then life brought me to you!”
“Golden Gates” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
I remember you from Elden days
As a whisper upon the wind
When love was just a shadow
In a world submerged in sin
And everywhere I’d follow
Led to high cliffs or dead ends
No money begged nor borrowed
Could erase our souls as kin
And if I were to tell you
We were someday meant to be
Would it be enough to hold you
Now we’ve found this reality?
My light it’s always been you
We have followed in its wake
The purest of intentions
Our blood never forsakes
Yet I who’ve come before you
Knows youth that still debates
How much longer when so close
Before our keys open the gate?
And instinct burns the scriptures
Where the wicked stole our fate?
For lifetimes we have witnessed
From afar the promised land
In each other’s eyes in passing
Swore an oath to hold your hand
Come to me now
Come home at last
It’s time we feast
On love’s repast
And all the world
Will know at last
What it feels like
To be truly blessed
Come revel with me
Breathe in the scent
Of Eden’s garden
No longer Hellbent
Children of God
As our descent
No longer cast
Far to wander
Come meet me
At the alter
Where our hearts
Spring wings anew
I know you
I know you
I know you
It’s true
I know you
I love you
Free at last
Me and you
—-
Haunting Elden melodies of longing.
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Catalyst
“I wish that I knew what it was….
I’d light that fuse in a second if I knew for certain that the feelings were mutual!”
Experience
“I guess much of it can be and is meant to be learned, together.”
Why A Gentle Touch Feels Like Love
Inclusion
“How does one go from being a single parent to being partnered, again?
How does one share the load, the burdens of responsibility?
And sharing emotional and financial support – having a feeling of stability?”
Awkward Moments
He hugged her, complimenting her on the smell of her jacket’s perfume.
“It’s not mine,” she laughingly confided. “I hugged a dear friend of mine earlier – that’s her favorite smell.”
—
(In dreams)
(Heart Like Hers – Michael DuBois)
At Least,
“Past Martial Arts, rock climbing, and general balance-pivoting skills help me manage this ambulatory insanity!”
WAKE UP!
“We need each other to survive!”
—
(Content of multiple meanings)
(Trip Switch – Nothing But Thieves)
ConvergingWorlds
As she turned to leave because she had to keep attending to her fragile realities, he paused her with a quick encircling of her wrist with his elegant fingers.
“Don’t go…
Stay.
I’ll take care of you…
I’ll take care of everything.”
(Vore – Sleep Token – Live At Barclays Center, Brooklyn 10/1/25)
The Weight Of Light
Master Class
(Title of multiple meanings)
