An Orange Haze of Dawn

from John Vieira IV: An Orange Haze of Dawn by John Vieira

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A poem/ Overtone choir collaboration with friend and composer Robb Saffell, co-director of Harmonic Introductions.

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Walls and windows promptly open before my eyes,
the cloud is an aura to take to the brain,
A subconscious appeal to a higher deity.
The sun is that god and all seek to earn the glowing glint,
Of Dawn's amber approval.

When the day just begins,
orange is in our midst,
so that be the natural cycle of our star.

Away from the human's anecdote of destruction,
I sit with the day and not the night.
West is not set in tradition!
Why approach a fight?

For the day can begin there,
if given the fate dealt right,
All point to reverie in the winter-filled summer,
The part closest to morning,
bird noise as acting drummer.

But in the shallow center of their brains,
they look to the East before the West.
The confusion of what is occurring seems to rattle impertinent chains,
ported from the sequester of twelve moons preceding.

Unfocused. Unemotional. Unabashed.
The sun breaks protocol and rises in the West.

The morning casts an orange glow,
people meandering confusedly,
through their routines recently regular.
Schemes are hatched, battles are won,
for the fate of our red, yellow-fringed sun.

An orange haze of dawn is upon us!
Accept its intrinsic value.
unlike those who blithely run
they are now captured in prisons,
nowhere to turn from the harsh, admonishing glow.
Mourning like a '67 refugee, so far from the place where he was born,
so far, in fact, that infinity could reoccur and he would still be left in space.
Where the thugs of future peace freely roam,
burly and sour, crimsoned cheek in rage,
coursing through black veins under skin of orange sage.

Left is a shrunken figure, stapled with chrome,
pining for a place,
2000 light years from home.

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from John Vieira IV: An Orange Haze of Dawn, released November 25, 2014
Reading: John Vieira
Robb Saffell, Julian-Israel Gimotea Canizares, Pablo Salazar, Saalika Kahn, Steve O'Brien, Chris Apple, Ian Kyle, Mary Saffell: Overtone Choir

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John Vieira Damascus, Maryland

I am a solo artist that currently lives in Damascus, Maryland. I graduated from the University of Maryland in December 2013 with a degree with in Jazz Piano Performance. I have recorded 4 solo albums--one of them is a double album--two albums with a band named J&M Blues Co, and I am currently in a band called Sonic Circus. ... more

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