A Return To Innocence, Reclamation

Squished-Up Happy

Candid Corvid Productions

She usually greatly disliked photos of herself – possibly becauss her youngest enjoyed catching her in extreme, playful expressions where her dimensions would become greatly distorted.

But her nervous tension over the subject diminished when she thought of the prospect of his features also being squished-up happy alongside her.

In fact, the thought made her laugh and smile.

A Return To Innocence, Reclamation, Songs

“That Man” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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Cassandra, Songs

“Even Keel” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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Songs

“Visions Of You” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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Songs

“For Love Of Life” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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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Elden Ways, Songs

“A Great, Vasty Emptiness” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

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

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Elden melodies of mourning.

(Title from a reference to the movie “Serenity”)

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