Category: Spoken Word

Some things can only be seen at night when the shadows are long in the bright moonlight.

Spoken Word: https://soundcloud.com/user-213139500/what-we-need-to-see-42121-poetry

Human life is fragile.

We like to take the human life for granted because we think of all of the opportunities we now have as a human race. We look at the mistakes we make, the atrocities we commit, the choices mis-made.

You know, I like to think that someday I could be immortal so that I could keep living, and keep learning in gathering wisdom. Hopefully, to apply it to our people: to help the young ones grow better and stronger than they’ve ever been able to before; to give solace to the ones who are older who have been hurt and damaged by pain, by war.

I’d love to be one of the Elders that cares for our race and helps bring us to better understanding of our true humility and grace, our power, our strength – to reach and access our true capabilities.

I worry that if I were granted immortality that I would see other immortals become jaded, and it would just be the human struggle for power and resources and control at others’ expense – just on the larger scale. Now we’ve got humans that can live forever vying to always stay in control: how is that different than now?

But it seems to be a good dream to have: to want to be there on the side of Nourishment.

We have such great potential as creatures that contain both animal instinct, and something other: Human Thought. Human capacity to analyze and reason. We are unique. I don’t think that anywhere there’s a species like us.

There may be other advanced civilizations out there in the universe – and maybe we actually come from one of them. But, what we have evolved from and into now is something rather unique, meant to be cherished, meant to be cultivated to have our best attributes drawn forward to stand shining in the sun.

To have the cloud of oppression and waste, and malice, and greed – all the negative things that ego brings to us, lifted off of us – just that burden, lifted…what great things could we achieve?

Ego itself is not bad, but, it’s bad how ego can become abusive.

And I believe that if we nourish what imbalanced ego from the beginning – brought it back into its center – that it could be one of our greatest assets, giving us the will, the knowledge, the determination to manifest our own destiny beyond anything we’ve ever dreamed.

Spoken Word: https://soundcloud.com/user-213139500/a-case-for-humanity-42121

Disruption…

As we see in the world around us, the Coronavirus effects interfering with international travel, disrupting economies, taking lives, yielding opportunity for terrorists to take advantage of destabilized operations, and agencies losing funding to keep operations going.

It’s like a carefully orchestrated plan to tear apart everything that a person would reach for to regain stability in times of trouble.

It’s a psychological terrorism, in a way – almost more than physical because its infecting people with fear of the unknown, fear of being close. It has larger effects of fear of investing – whether it’s in business ventures, education, relationships.

There is probably not one place that isn’t affected right now.

What this pandemic is doing is leveraging us to give up on our higher ideals – maybe even give up our morality in the struggle for survival.

But, that makes us descend back into the primal hindbrain of fight, flight, or freeze.

That throws us into violence again: a state of distrust – of distressed competition with one another. It causes us to discard ties. It causes us to lose faith in ourselves, in the world, and in each other.

These things that it is causing in us with negative reactionism – these things are the tools, the currency of Evil.

Whether or not evil is behind this, the defragmentation of human society capsizing, collapsing as the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs begins to disintegrate, ends up being on the side of evil.

So, it seems to me, now more than ever, we must not give into succumbing to despair. We must not yield our beliefs, nor our investments – but rather, step to the side, rest, and wait for a better time to promote those things which we value.

There are more things that we can do: we can build further strategies so that when the system comes back on line, we can plug in – stronger than ever, with more to our advantage, during this delay.

There are always silver linings to be found: there are always opportunities, when there is tragedy.

It has been said that there cannot be good without evil. Therefore, if that is true, then there cannot be evil without good.

And it is up to us to find, hold onto, and continue promoting the good in our humanity. It is up to us to remember and promote these higher ideals.

It is up to us to not give into anger or despair.

That is not to say we can’t feel anger or despair. But to let them take over our hind brain and manipulate us into actions we would later regret – into directions we would not have considered before – is to be avoided.

Allowing circumstances to leverage our good reason in directions that are not good for us, ultimately, is the wrong way to go.

The grass is green, the sprinklers are still flowing, nature moves forward: We Are Surviving.

This is a delay. It’s a setback. It’s a loss. But that does not mean we will miss our triumph – or Our Winning.

And we must hold secure and keep our eyes on the horizon, waiting for our right timing to reemerge.

(July 13, 2020)

My Spoken Word: https://soundcloud.com/user-213139500/overcoming-disruption-spoken-word-71320

I thought this could happen, from the beginning –
So warned against it, deflecting attachment, but

Then realized that if this were real – I wanted it,
And have been doing all I can to champion it.

It’s ironic what is happening now
Through the agencies delaying us…

What is this closed-loop system where
Chances bottleneck as they’re presenting?

Do we only get to participate if we stay asleep?
Is the one struggling to stay awake mine to keep?

Am I being denied boon because I’m adapting
And surpassing the lessons more engagedly?

I keep stepping out of pre-established roles
Where subconscious defaults pursuade me –

And the people I have met who could partner
Keep marching on to their own programming,

Despite my attempts to reach out – and shake them.

(November 20, 2018)

Here are my on-the-road recordings at Candid Corvid Productions on Soundcloud (please listen to in sequence):

1. Spacial Reality
2. Alone In Society
3. Firelight (Poetry)
4. Energetics (Dynamic)
5. Camptown Blues (Medium)
6. Words
7. Satisfaction
8. At the Trough
9. A View

Everyone has to start somewhere, and my beginnings in voice-over recording began by taking a college class. You can listen to two of my humble beginnings at:

Of course, there are mistakes: there are pops, slurs, and variations in tones that over time I’ll learn how to clean up and improve upon.

I’m like a child just learning to walk this path, so please be gentle with your criticism.

And Thank You for believing in me.

I love Polly Periphery – she is my own creation 😀