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Engulfed In Sonder

by Nicky Havey, Mainly Poetry

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Something a little different from me as I team up with a talented poet from Merseyside called Mainly Poetry, combining Drum & Bass with one of his poem recordings called "Engulfed in Sonder".

The meaning of "sonder" itself is defined by Mainly Poetry on his original video as "the realization that each random passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness" - check out his original here:

We have known each other for a few years now as we met each other on a blogging platform called PeakD, over time becoming good friends and sharing our creative journeys.

When I saw the words of Engulfed in Sonder and understood the meaning behind it, combined with the excellent delivery by Mainly Poetry, it was a no-brainer to see if I could put a drum & bass track to the words.

This was a lot of fun to make and I enjoyed collaborating with him on this, it feels like the DnB scouse version of The Streets haha!

Enjoy!

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Engulfed in Sonder

I wander city streets paved with echoing weight,
striations of reality whittled in mind-states.
I wonder if sunbeams seem the same for the child
embraced by their mother,
in the blinking wide eyed confusion of pigeons
we all look like each other,
specs of…. gusts of…. dust on grey paved desert.

I meander park lane, welts of rain flay my skin,
be-suited spectacled businessmen
cluck like hens on their phones,
make deals in hollows between paving stones.
My somnolent eye drinks the patter and splatter
of shoes through puddles, drowning in hopes and struggles.

I dance down the high street, ponderous buses pass
like journeying elephants, lined with faces that express
the eloquence of the passage of time,
chipped from a quarry of thought,
dug from a field of sublime memories,
each suspended in a prism of reflection.

All the while, I realise the self is a prison we craft.
All the while, I feel the backdraft of a thousand thinkers,
all drinking from hope’s chalice, all drowning in struggles,
all winding the cogs, all setting alarms, all building ideas
like charms, repeated in the silence behind the eyes
I realise they’re all me and I’m them and we are we.

I wander on
changed, engulfed in sonder.

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released June 3, 2023

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Nicky Havey London, UK

UK producer making melodic drum & bass, chillout and trance music, with various remixes of tunes from across the decades.

Full music catalogue is available to download on Bandcamp

Liquid drum & bass mixes on the 1st of each month available to stream on my YouTube channel - @nickyhavey

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