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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.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Poetry Is The End

This poem and poet came to me via Youtube. I was totally struck by
the work of this young artist who goes by the name of Poet Picasso.


Life and death,

Love and hate,
Heaven and hell!


Poetry is everything I've seen.
The past and the future I draw.

For better or for worse
it is the letter of my law.


Harshly covers,

swallows all my enemies
while gently touching all my friends.

The coveted origin of my beginning,
ongoing and has no end.


The capacity to forge
a working or worked experience
into a motivating creation,
poetry is focus,
coherent delivery, concentration.


Composed and calculated
from a thought or conclusion ...

can arise from chaos or confusion,
imagination or illusion,

can open a door easily
or make an unwanted intrusion.


The exhibition of an attitude.
The start ... heart of a moment,

The explosion of a soul
unchained and outspoken!