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Heavy Sighs Spoken Softly Live Lyrics + Video

Hello, everyone! If you scroll a little bit down my blog, you'll notice I posted a song called "Heavy Sighs Spoken Softly" from my debut EP. Recently, I had the...

Introvert - Hangman's Son Live Video + Lyrics

Hello, everyone! Hangman's Son is one of the first songs I finished for my newest album, "A Graveyard, A Garden." The song is an attempt to reconcile the feelin...

Father Figure(less)

Father Figure(less) is the third song from my debut album "A Graveyard, A Garden." You can follow along with the lyrics and listen here: https://introvert.bandc...

If You're Going to Write a Poem

If you're going to write a poem, stop hiding behind words like mine and personal. Give it to the world, open ended- tell them, "I made this for you," because yo...

Artificial Light - Haiku #4

A restless jay sings drowning in night - mistaking the streetlights for dawn...

SteemitPoetryContest #11 - Alone Among the Pieces

How do you quantify the faces you won't see again? A disappearing act gets difficult once it becomes a trend. I meant every promise at the moment it was said, b...

Tea & Brewing Happiness - Haiku 2 & 3

Clouds attached to string filled with tattered leaves and Earth. Raindrops in a glass. Stir to screeching steam like billowing cumulus- caffeinated sky....

Introvert - A Garden (Music Video + Lyrics)

Hey, guys! I just got DTube working after struggling for the last two days, so I decided to upload my first music video to the platform. This footage was taken ...

Introvert - A Garden (Ft. Brian Watkins)

A Garden is the eighth and final song from Introvert's debut album "A Graveyard, A Garden." All footage was filmed by Thomas Schultz during the Forthteller/Intr...

Hope - Haiku 1

Near the sprawling signs and steel and streets - a single patch of Earth, untouched....

The Great Performance

This is the second song off my newest album, "A Graveyard, A Garden." This song was inspired by Performance Theory, which theorizes that all humans play and mai...

My name is Matt, and I have a massive forehead.

Hello, friends! In my haste to join the steemit community in posting articles and poems, I failed to introduce myself. Silly me. As the title suggests, my name ...

Lullaby

Lullaby was one of the first spokenword pieces I wrote and performed at a poetryslam. Much like the song Epitaph, this piece is an amalgamation of personalities...

A Graveyard

A Graveyard is the first song on from my debut album "A Graveyard, A Garden." This album and the metaphors therein were inspired heavily by The Bible. You can l...

A Primer on Showing Versus Telling

If you have ever taken a writing class at any level, you should be familiar with the adage “Show, don’t tell.” This mantra, smashed into the skull of every stud...

Epitaph

This is the second song from my debut EP "Where Does it Come From, Where Does it Go Forever?" This EP was written in the late 2000s and released in July of 2010...

Talk to Your Doctor

There was a family drowning in summer light, laughing. Their dog ran circles around himself against the backdrop of their smiles. Side effects may include: Upse...

Heavy Sighs Spoken Softly

As my biography suggests, I make hip-hop music. I've been rapping since I was sixteen (I'm twenty-seven), and I wrote this song back in 2009 before I put out my...

Bare Hands

A plume of green mirrors grows next to a barren wall of bark two bodies bursting from the ground beside a tower of red brick. The roots snake through sand and c...

Four Steps to Improve Your Writing

As writers, we spend a significant portion of our time attempting to become better at our craft. We read, write, rewrite, read more, edit, write, and continue t...