Sometimes the stories sing

Along the Way

I write stories. I write songs. Sometimes they arrive together and argue over who came first.

This little corner is for the songs — the ones that arrived insisting on a melody, and the moments they were sung in.

It is still getting dressed, slowly, the way a good second verse should.

Photographs, recordings, and little musical adventures will find their way here whenever they are ready.

Performance photographs

Natasha Zarina singing into a vintage microphone, beside a tambourine-framed photograph of her band

Original songs

A pastel flower in lavender, pink, and gold blooming against a starry cosmic nebula — artwork for the song Quiet Explosions

Quiet explosions bloom

with swelling waves

inside my chest

Bouquets from secret gardens

bring with them

gentle deep caress

The taste of starlight

in the summer dark

Like fruit too pure to eat

This dance I love

under the warm rain’s touch

opens me leaf by tender leaf

Oh oh oh oh

Quiet explosions

In cosmic bliss

Oh oh oh oh

In eternal dance

We are timeless

Every promise kept

Even in the silent dark

True love unbound

The love that was

before our names

In us is found

The heart leans forward

Waiting, open

for another bloom

Impossible to close

Quiet explosions of love

Keep making infinite room

I Don’t want to fall asleep

It’s too delicious just for dreams

Your breath dances with mine

Stars and whispers realign

I Don’t want to fall asleep

Your breath dances with mine

Flowing silvery silk threads winding through a starry night sky with constellation lines and glowing blue nebulae — artwork for the song Ghost Silk Constellation

You drift into my velvet heart-cave

like smoke unveiling secrets.

Your essence dissolves in me

like shadows kneeling at the altar.

My Divine welcomes Yours

freely, without claim.

Ancient tides caress us both

before they gently pull away.

You drift back into my velvet heart-cave,

a soft invasion.

You carry my warm whisper across the night

a ghost-silk constellation.

I unveil my wings of silk,

feathers barely brush your skin.

I send my glow to meet

your candle’s quiet flame.

We become the lantern,

kindling the new light

threads pulsing through

the secret core of the universe.

You drift back into my velvet heart-cave,

a soft invasion.

You carry my warm whisper across the night

a ghost-silk constellation.

We bloom wild and true

in the velvet starry night.

Shimmering silence sings,

ghost-silk threads entwining.

Front cover of Roots Remember Stars: Poetry and Songs by Natasha Zarina — a woman in a rose gown beneath a solar eclipse, surrounded by golden constellations

Poetry & Songs

Roots Remember Stars

Some words became songs. Others remained poems. Together, they found a home among the stars.

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While the kettle boils

Every so often, a little letter leaves my writing room. It may carry a story, a song, a curious thought, or something the trees insisted I share.

Join the letter
Natasha Zarina

Thanks for wandering in. Mind the armchair on your way out — it's friendly, but terribly clingy.

Novels, songs, and occasional opinions from trees.

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