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Poet, producer, spoken word and visual artist. Co-founded the lyrical music ensemble COPUS. My love of the sheer beauty of poetry took hold when I was in high school. Soon after I heard an album by the legendary "Last Poets". Later I Began writing and reciting poetry at cafes and upon various stages after taking a college course called "Poetry For The People". At a party one evening I did a spontaneous collaboration of one of my poems with a concert pianist named Michael Feinstein. The beauty of it put me on a quest to find a composer who would work together with me writing music for my words and my flow. Some six years later I met a most prolific composer and pianist, Wendy Loomis. COPUS is the result of our collaboration for over fifteen years now. COPUS is an acronym for 'Creation Of Peace Under Stars'. That's how we roll. Under the peace, love, harmony banner. I hope you'll take some of each with you on your journey and from this blog. Bless.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Yesterday Is Gone


Yesterday is gone and only now remains
Tomorrow is yet to come may we be free of her chains
The only way to penetrate our target
Is to set a true aim

Yesterday is gone tomorrow is yet to come and only now remains

To move on to be strong to return from whence we came
Noble are these in wisdom and in truth
Yet here we are now the same
Yes here we are now as living proof from which our freedom is gained

Yesterday is gone tomorrow is yet to come and only now remains

I am certain you will all agree that it is sometimes very strange
The times we'd have it all laid out at once
To see it clearly and with no pain
Then there are the times we play the role of the dunce who instinctively refrains

From the classroom of yesterday and the storehouse of tomorrow
To grasp that in which is contained
The eternal ideal that we call now which is all that remains