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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2006-01-30 12:36 PM

INITIATION
To Live Poets’ Society)
6 August 1998

This is like wow, man.
This is like real and now, man.
This is cool, man, really cool.

This is where the real and the crazy and the now are at.
This is home, brother, really home.

This is where a long-haired man
racked with pain or anti-inflammatories,
with cat-closed eyes,
twangs raw poetry out of his throat and his guitar -
poetry that rips open the gut, slashes the lungs and intoxicates the spirit;

where a lovelorn girl
makes music out of pain;

where cappuccino’s and philosophy
give painful birth to beauty’s child;

where children and aliens come to heel and hear not what,
where words and sounds and watermelons and motherhood and honesty and performance
and regret and Sunday nights and Monday afternoons and a telephone call
whirl faster and faster,
and twirl and swirl into a crazy kaleidoscope
of wild colours beyond colour.

This is where Life began.

- Owl

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

1 posted 2006-01-31 09:04 AM

OH

Diana?

This is my favorite from you.

Have you ever read Saul Williams?

You really should.

I LOVE this, it is just raw and BAM.

How writing should be.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2006-01-31 03:09 PM

Thanks, Sue. Big smiles.

This was about a very successful monthly poetry-reading group and a Vincent-smear of their poetry of one particular evening.

No, I haven't heard of Saul Williams, but will browse for him when I get the opportunity.

- Owl

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

3 posted 2006-01-31 10:45 PM

"where cappuccino’s and philosophy
give painful birth to beauty’s child"

It IS raw and very good Diana.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2006-01-31 11:33 PM

Thank you, Kate. It was a wonderful poetry-reading group, and that particular evening was so wow that this poem was born the same evening and I spewed it out as soon as I got home.

- Owl

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

5 posted 2006-02-01 12:10 PM

http://www.saulwilliams.com/

Scroll to the bottom to The Work, then you can listen.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2006-02-01 02:23 PM

Thanks, I will.

- Owl

Bagger Vance
Member

since 2006-02-01

Posts 108
Aotearoa

7 posted 2006-02-02 03:07 PM

ah.. the lyric of your banter .. like wow..

smiles ss s s

White Gold Wielder

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

8 posted 2006-02-02 06:44 PM

Dianna, I very much enjoyed this write!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2006-02-02 11:05 PM

Thanks Bagger Vance and Gentle Spirit. Glad you both enjoyed it.

- Owl

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