Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Quotation of the Day -Marvelous Ecstasy

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." --Anais Nin

Quotation of the Day -The Poetic Revolution

"The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world." --James Baldwin

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Heavy Faces - 17/30

my heart is heavy.
so many thoughts, feelings
compromised emotions, and forbidden fears have appeared
and
nestled itself at the forefront of my consciousness.
i have yet to make sense of it all.
i have yet to understand the
significance
grandeur
the heaviness of this
weight.
more than just weight and pain
upon, throughout, encompassing me,
i bleed.
i bleed.
i bleed publicly and no one cares to ask why.
no one cared,
and so i bled privately.
behind the public faces
behind the mask and walls, my strong face
behind myself,
i bleed.
pain courses through these veins
and now intercourse with my
strength.
their offspring is
fear.
fear is my companion, my best friend.
i fear all that was to give me support,
i fear the words of loved ones,
i fear, love.
i fear, myself.
and as much as i tell others and tell myself
i fear that i simply do not know the self which stares back at me.
who am i?
me?
i am a ball of confusion
burning bright
burning, secretly
burning, steadily
no one wants to see. this.
no one wants the truth,
my truth.
and so i remain behind by facade
i keep hidden
so that the others will see and find solace
in the lies i have fashioned into their
truth.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Truth's Angst - 16/30

i am afraid.

i fear.

i live in fear.

fear has become my roommate, my companion.
before i was terrified of naming it,
this consumption.
but what is the use of lying,
of hiding,
pretending that what is there isn't.
what is the use?
i fear that i will be like the women in my family
women who give so much of themselves to others,
who are successful, but
nonetheless
are women without love.
i fear that i will become like them
and
be left alone.

i don't want to be alone.

i don't want to endure life with walls surrounding
and no one willing nor capable to penetrate them.

i fear.

i fear that i am not good enough,
that i am insufficient,
that i lack,
that i will never be the one
that is chosen.
that is loved.

ellipses, revisited - 15/30

(feel the need to repost this. its words are ringing true right now..)


you.

these words are inadequate
my
thoughts are meaningless
for they fail to grasp the
entirety of my emotions for
you.

all i seem to do is contemplate on the
could have beens
the
supposed connection which lies between us two
which seems to only exist in my mind
yet,
what am i to make of the engaged-in conversations
when we share the space alone?
how am i to explain away
the way you can see and know me
without an exchange of words?
what am i to make of your touch
and
the way you caressed more than my face
as we explored that forbidden kiss?

you.
you are
my dot dot dot
you.
you are
my question mark
you.
are not mine.

with each passing day i
make attempts at forgetting you
attempt
to erase images from my subconscious mind
and conscious being
your images
yet all that i am capable of is creating new ones
fabricating various play by plays of places that we travel to
and names we call our children
and
destines that await us...

yet,
now with eyes wide open
i am reminded that
you
are not mine
that
you
chose not me
that
you
love another each night
that
a we could never be
and i,
i am forever lost in the
unknown space
between the
dot dot dot.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Feelings - 14/30


love me, not your fears.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Quotations of the Day - Perception and Awareness

"I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable..."
-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; not am i one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man


Thursday, February 4, 2010

Quotations of the Day - Race Relations

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -James Baldwin

"Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world." -James Baldwin

"It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate." -James Baldwin

Quotation of the Day -Choices and Change

"What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements."
Anaïs Nin

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Part 1: Love's Refrain - The Call - 13/30

i wanna write a love song
but i'm afraid of what it would mean if i do.
afraid.
i wanna write about your love,
capture how you move me in between these lines with my pen
seize every breath which escapes your soul
and cradle it in between my heart beats
as we liberate our auras into one.
i wanna write a love song.
about how you perceive and understand my essence with
your thoughts.
your eyes.
your spirit.
about how you move and please me the way you do
connect in the vastness of silent spaces.
i wanna write a love song.
but the reality is,
i am afraid.