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My tongue struggles to articulate the words you wish to hear. Their shape and form are too foreign. In a mouth carved out of silence, they taste like strange fruit, ripe with promise and possibility. Tempting and sweet. My lips part in anticipation, but my tongue lips onwards, round as marbles, expecting the familiar stony edges cold and sharp. Muscle memory responds, spitting out the only thing it knows. I'm sorry
Marley Musarra
@MarleyMusarra · 0:22
Wow. This was so unbelievably. Well done. I listened to and read it multiple times. I was like, d***. D***. They did really well with this. You did really well with this. Definitely mesmerized by the language and the story that you're able to tell here. Wow
Arya Sunyata
@theheartdrive · 1:32
This is how I feel every time I'm trying to learn a new language. Like, there are just ways that your mouth moves, or if I don't use a language for some time, all of a sudden have to retrain my mouth to sit in certain positions and form certain sounds. And that's when your accents come through. So what I loved about this piece is the literal and the metaphorical interpretation that can be given to it
Blair Redmond
@blairbearing · 0:43
Yes. I love all of the comments. My interpretation was more so from, like, you're in the beginning just because I'm on relationship minded right now. So it's like I'm thinking, like you're trying to start something or you're in that starting beginning phases of something with someone and you don't quite know each other. That's what you talked stout of being foreign, but it's like you still want them to know that you're sorry and it was just a misinterpretation
J Stout
@DarkMoonMusings · 0:15
Thank you for listening in and taking the time to actually respond to this poem. I'm glad that you liked it and felt something from it, and I look forward to listening in on some of your swell casts
J Stout
@DarkMoonMusings · 1:00
So I don't know if you remember, like, a couple of years ago when we first met, having a discussion with me about articulation and learning new languages. And that's what inspired this poem. And I was thinking about how exactly what you said. I was thinking about how yes, when you learn a new language, you have to learn learn how to shape those sounds
J Stout
@DarkMoonMusings · 0:37
Hey, Blair. Thank you for taking the time to listen to this and to offer your perspective on it. I love it. There is this one current in this piece that has to do with learning the language of somebody new to you and not really knowing how to talk to them because you come from different places, different upbringings, different everything to where how they think and how they speak is totally foreign to you. So I love that you got that. Thank you
Arya Sunyata
@theheartdrive · 2:15
When I saw the title, I was like, I wonder if she's writing about that conversation we had years ago. So it is brilliant. It is wonderful that we can have these conversations and then it inspires a thought or a sequence of thinking and then we just like, oh, and I feel this, and we just kind of speak through those
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