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David Middleham

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watcher of movies. listener of music. consumer of chocolate. despiser of avocados. conveyer of cosmic chaos.

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'delightfully weird'

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David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 13

Rage Against The Machine - Darkness

youtu.be/hmPkgU3EY2Q?si…

(Machines Of Loving Grace have a song on The Crow Soundtrack which is where this song is from)#DavidsMonthOfMusicic

November 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

rapturous fall...
#wildwickedwords
echoes to call...
#Amatory
@amatoryq.bsky.social

secret angels
kiss the treetops
glaucous outline
under paler moons

echoes to call
familiar resonances
from primal thrums
in the language of stars

do you feel me
move inside you
as i commit the deed
to verse

barefoot
in feral fields

whispers swirling
like the touch of a lover

like how i
would seek your ache

i will catch you
with eager embrace
from your rapturous fall
and hold you forever

drawn
to the night-flame oblivion

infinite
"i want you"s
spilling
from my own ascent

wrap me in the moment
bewitch me
and i will never let go
and i will ask the same of you

the night is ours again

tell me
how can we make tonight burn brighter

how can we be
closer
come
morning

November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Oh. Hi.

November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 12

Machines Of Loving Grace - Butterfly Wings

youtu.be/uNic-79_W7w?...

(also has the word butterfly in the title)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

beyond the wish...
lover of light...
before you go...

#Amatory
@amatoryq.bsky.social

the ache
is a lighthouse

spilling
a pristine beam
over water
so still

waiting

to thrash
at the softest sigh

lover of light
breach the surface
rising
like the promise
of whitecapped rapture

as the salt
of your desire
stains my tower

the caress
of your yearning tide
beyond the wish
i confided in the depths

love me harder
before you go

erode cliffs of resolve

my chest
my stomach
soaked
by your feral waves

stir every ocean
into frenzy as you come

then

returns

to contented silence

surfaces
mirroring the skies

i wipe away the spume

the ache
is a lighthouse

and the night is darker
without you

November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

#pennedreveries

surely
your intolerance
can't bring you joy

hating everyone
and everything
that doesn't meet the requirements
of acceptable
in the constantly narrowing view
of you
or your herd
surely doesn't make you happy

understanding each other
is such a genuinely beautiful thing

why not try it

be kinder now
while it still matters

November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 11

Acid Bath - Scream Of The Butterfly

youtu.be/T3kJ53_9KCo?...

(Will be supporting SOAD on tour next year)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

#pennedreveries

do you hear
my soul whispers

ethereal tendrils
of dream-prayer soliloquy

the only-you mantras
that persist upon my breath

i want
for you

in silence
in distance
in absence

i want
for you

when you are but a heartbeat away

a sigh
caresses the gossamer

as i write "I love you"
between the lines
again

November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 10

System of a Down - Innervision

youtu.be/jjnt-KS0ozE?...

(Serj Tankian of SOAD sings guest vocals on the Deftones song Mein)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

#vssromance
linger
#pennedreveries
hands held

we collide
(with serendipitous intent)
fated
(in clandestine language)
by the stars
(sweet
sweet
conspiracy)

hands held
(in delicate defiance)
for comfort
(in the turmoil of consequence)
and fruition
(of relentless reveries)

no simple act
(not with you)
no triviality
(not with you)
no insincerity
(not for you)
no doubt
(never with you)

a kiss
(forehead)
a kiss
(eyelids)
a kiss
(lips)
a kiss
(parted lips)
a kiss
(neck/throat)
a kiss
(chest)
a kiss
(heart)
a kiss
(lower)
a kiss
(deeper)
a kiss
(lingering)
sacred
(rapturous)
only for you
(my consummate muse)

November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 9

Deftones - Passenger

youtu.be/IjainiB8mk4?...

(Maynard James Keenan does guest vocals on this song)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

we kick our way through
a bed of leaves
like children

the day was as idyllic as I had believed

your soul as warm as I had dreamed

and as the golden sun falls
into the whisper and hush of autumn

the day is not over

and your lips are as soft as I dared hope

#pennedreveries

November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 8

A Perfect Circle - Orestes

youtu.be/fxoBBSyue4I?...

(Maynard James Keenan is the lead singer of A Perfect Circle as well as Tool and Puscifer)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

between sunrise
and sunset

every subliminal heartbeat

every instinctive breath

thoughts of you
just as frequent

always close

and then i dream
only dreams
that you imbue

#pennedreveries

November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

#BornBattleReady

you whisper
sweet everythings

each syllable
thunderclaps its gravity
into my resonance

shivers

stills

deeper now
the cadence of your candour
resides

fingernails press against skin
passion compelled
by word and act

your lips
so close to my ear

the fever of proximity

your breath
a zephyr on my skin

the allure of declaration
and demand

and yes
i need you too

and yes
i want to feel it harder too

and yes
i'll tell you when too

and yes
i love you too

and yes
i love you

and in the bliss of wordlessness
spent
beautiful
ruins
in empyreal embrace

in the fragile moments

you whisper
again

my ribcage fills with contentment

my reveries conflagrate
into nothing more resplendent
that the light i watch flicker
in your eyes

in the aftermath of our rapture

sleep
or a kiss
disparate oblivions

we could scream it
darling
and it wouldn't matter more

the sincerity
meets the time

i whisper

you smile

and i am undone

November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 7

Maynard James Keenan & Steven Drozd - Rocket Man

youtu.be/JmQZswYYRhQ?...

(Elton John cover)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

👋

November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

i know
i feel
my better angels
want better
for me

i know
i feel
that you
want the best
for me

this is one
of myriad reasons
that i adore you so

#pennedreveries

November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 6

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

youtu.be/wy709iNG6i8?...

(played piano on the previous song)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

wrapped in warmth...

#Amatory
@amatoryq.bsky.social

i think of an act

clandestine
and sacred

wrapped in warmth
enrobed by you

thoughts
deliciously sheathed
between the most unrepentant lines
of your verse

an embrace
fathoms deep

truths
unburdened

corsets
unlaced

lips
pressed against scapula

desires
untethered

bedsheets
unmade

kisses
upon kisses
upon kisses

and us
so simple
so sublime

i think of an act

i only think of you

November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM

David Middleham

@dmiddleham.bsky.social

Day 5

Miley Cyrus ft. WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, & Chad Smith - Nothing Else Matters

youtu.be/DqoQY9bobow?...

(cover of the Metallica song)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM