Dear Readers, Watchers, and Occasional Listeners, welcome to another instalment of Ears Wide Open!
Our main page states that you won’t find an overabundance of brightly coloured pictures, hit songs or other such paraphernalia here. Why? Because we simply want to keep your focus on our texts. This is a literary site after all!
We have, however, also been known to switch things up from time to time. Yes, we’re justifiably leery of shoehorning in things that don’t fit with what we do, but we also like to allow creativity’s natural flow to have its say. This time, we’re listening to that flow, and it’s taking on the form of one Magsi Rover.
Who is she? Well, we don’t know a whole lot about her yet, but we’re fairly certain (but cannot guarantee) that Magsi is a fellow WordPress blogger, Filipino, and loves to read things aloud. And we’re fairly certain that she’s read most of our stuff too. She’s even recorded a couple of our poems and sent them to us! How lucky are we?
Needless to say, our ears are wide open and receptive, and so we’ve decided to share one of her efforts with you, our Dear Readers, Watchers, and Occasional Listeners. Please do enjoy! Oh, and don’t be shy about joining our Ears Wide Open challenge. If you’d like to record one of your favourite poems by us, then please go right ahead and do so. The more the merrier!
time is a wheel
and it’s bearing down on me
time is a wheel
and it’s bearing down on me
how to outrun what isn’t free?
i still don’t know what i can be
hope is easy
when it is the first time
hope is easy
when it is the first time
but not when bells have lost their chime
and not upwind the squalls of mimes
be my comfort
deadly jesus, yeah be my friend
be my comfort
deadly jesus, yeah be my friend
brake the wheel afore story’s end
my soul to keep and ever mend
time is a wheel
and it’s bearing down on me
time is a wheel
and it’s bearing down on me
stars like dewdrops across my knee
lacuna matata on the cliffs of scree
Text by TONY SINGLE
Audio by MAGSI ROVER
Image by HERR TAMARIN
© All rights reserved 2017
unbolt me 
I suspect this poem could quite successfully be set to music, but since I am not a composer I have no idea what that would sound like!
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Me neither, but I like your thinking, Alli. I’d love to hear this set to music! 😀
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Congratulations 😊.I have nominated you for Blue Sky Tag Blog Award again.
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Aw, thank you so much! We feel honoured! 🙂
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Welcome 😊
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I read this post with my EYES HALF OPEN at four in the morning.
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That’s an ungodly hour to be reading anything! 😛
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What a lovely narration to a beautiful poem!
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Ira, you’re so right. I really enjoyed the job Magsi did here. Thanks so much for your visit! 😀
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It was my pleasure😊
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wonderful if letting
the air out of those tires
is as easy as putting
it in? 🙂
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OH wow! Yes, you’re right. It could be… 😉
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wow, really nice!
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Thank you, Bassey! 😀
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Anytime!
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My heart flutters with this opportunity to read the poems for you guys! Thank you so much! I love how this was wonderfully laid out~ my heart goes doki doki for this! yey! ^_^
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YAY! And I’m so glad that many others here like your efforts too! Keep it up, Magsi. 🙂
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Lovely
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Thanks so much! 😀
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Wow!Love it !
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Thanks so much! 😀
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Love the conversational style of it! Love it! ❤
Magsi did a great job.
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I totally agree. It was a pleasure to have her read one of my silly little things, I can tell you. 🙂
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