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🍁 Cybernaut Autumn Playlist: Poppy Sawayama
Asian Autumn
Because autumn isn’t just a season — it’s a state of becoming.
📖 Poppy’s Autumn Reflection
Across Asia, autumn hums in many languages — temple bells in Kyoto, wind chimes in Seoul, rain against old Shanghai glass. It’s a season of reflection, not retreat.
For me, Asian Autumn is a return to stillness and self — a time to honor what’s fading without fearing it. The streets glisten after rain, neon halos shimmer in puddles, and the air smells of roasted chestnuts and memory.
These songs remind me that impermanence is its own kind of grace. Change isn’t a loss; it’s a passage — and in every falling leaf, I find a piece of home.
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Clarity
What Poppy sees now that she didn’t before
Autumn reminds Poppy that beauty doesn’t ask to last forever. The falling leaves, the cooling air, the ache of memory — all of it teaches her that transformation can be both tender and fierce.
“Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” – Ryuichi Sakamoto
She is guided by twilight — that in-between color where nostalgia meets possibility, and where the soul learns to breathe again.
“Andata” – Ryuichi Sakamoto A wordless prayer for the turning season — soft piano and stillness, carrying the listener through the quiet space where endings become beginnings.
🌈 Extra Autumn Resonance
Songs for long walks through red-maple paths, for warm tea and letters never sent, for the moments when heartache feels like healing in disguise.
“Autumn teaches me how to fall — gracefully, honestly, and without losing my light.”
Poppy Sawayama brings a poetic pulse to every passport stamp. As Go Cybernaut’s Asia Travel Writer, she weaves lyrical narratives that transport readers beyond the itinerary and into the rhythm of lived experience—where alleyway jazz meets temple bells and street food markets shimmer in monsoon light.
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