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.

The Bold Thinker

Categories The Arts

Bold

head, high, looking
at you
then tilted, offside
to one o’clock
feeling

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Sprayers poem for Regan Tamanui

Categories The Arts

Yesterday was Regan Tamanui’s birthday, an artist from Down Under (Australia) who is very creative. His main line of work is large stenciled murals, but he also does free hand spraying. He started the “Stuckist” movement in Australia.

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The Māorist

Categories The Arts

The Māorist pauses, contemplates

The building, empty, near bomb blasted,
Glassless, eyeless, majestic
Germanic brickwork, soviet design

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Relationships like books

Categories The Arts

Commentary “The Closing”:

I had the idea that relationships could be represented like a book, where the pages can be turned.

So I wrote this poem about a relationship.

It is a bit dark.

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The Closing

Categories The Arts

There
leather covered, heavy, richly embroidered,
pergament, hand finely pressed, embossed, yin und yang,
near new, print still damp,
sketches of life,
passion, thoughts, emotions, strength

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Being ignored

Categories The Arts

Being in a relationship is not always chocolates and roses.

I wrote a poem about when the partner doesn’t want to speak with you and ignores you.

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The Cold

Categories The Arts

In sight,
it comes,
optics, no difference,
perfect, functional,
this time different?
A Clone

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Want To Be Clear

Categories The Arts

want to read, don’t want to read
want to speak, don’t want to speak
want to trust, don’t want to trust
want to believe, don’t want to believe

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Bar Spirit

Categories The Arts

Quiet, empty, cold, minimal
The plain bar, wooden
Industrious Eve’s, shifting space
Bauhaus driven, Gestalten
Pregnant, the event horizon, near

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How Do You Feel

Categories The Arts

“How do you feel?” She asked
“Okay” I said, smiling

“Is that all?” she retorted
wanting to be told something like

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