Channels of creative energy

By Ian | 18 June, 2013

The energy to create things exists in all of us. Some of this energy flows through my hands in to words, rhyme, rhythm, capturing light, a part flows through my mouth into song, other through my body as love.

The Arts as such have always interested and fascinated me.

This section contains a couple of channels into which my energy has flown.

That Smile

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Opening, a smile.
A smile as though the sun is rising in the sky,
the tangerine glowingness, unfolds,
getting stronger, pouring its warmth, laimė

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And So I

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And so I fucked it up alright, me so clever, me so bright
But I fucked it up alright!
The word says it all, explosive and short,
the word as a tool, determined, and thought.
I fucked it up alright

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As I Know She Stood Before The Alter

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Feel the time, heavy,
Weighing on my heart, like lead,
A fixture, not removable, screwed, bolted, welded.
It’s happening, feeling it, right now, or has

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Classifying and publishing old materials

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Whilst revamping my website, I was going through my old poems from my “youth” ;-) years and checking them out. I was at the time under pressure to get the collection of poems finished and took some short cuts.

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Feel My Heart

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I’ve seen the sun, the moon, the stars
Beauty of the world, divine

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Greens and Browns

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Ripening, lady light, red, well,
From seed, grown, lovingly, grafted,
Pottered, lustrum long, being kilned,
Creative, energies, simmering,

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The Knife Strong It Cuts The Love

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The…

the garden, well kept, within
bordered, walled, pikes of trust
chance encounter, the bag spilt
seeds, feelings, sprouting

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Who Wants A Girlfriend

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Who Wants A Girlfriend
(they kick you in the ‘ip?)

When you’re starting to like them,
they smile at you, causing you to quip

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You're driving me mad, Yes You Do

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You’re driving me mad
Yes you are, Yes you do
With your tales of past ages
And dragons and sages

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Autumn Change

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Hanging, waiting, thinking
Flecks of brown, sinking
Floating, from freckled arms
Blue sky, speaking psalms
Sun lovers, faces seeking

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