you can't have courage
without having fear

you can't reforge
what hadsnt been sheared.

Brainstorm moment:
a soulful performance

[or an embodied connection of an art to all experiencing including performer(s), the art form, audience, cultural context (including beliefs, diologues and location) ]

can help an art piece transcend in which an ai does not yet.
#art #ai #artistway

Sometimes barren a branch becomes, before it bears its fruit.

Though winter rots, it sets the soil
'for bulbs and blooms break through.

Though i wait in hungeres pangs
while favored trees respite

the joy that lights along my tongue
will ease my troubled mind.

#poem #virtue #hope

Its only fair, but still is a hard surprise to find out that my coach, Life, took distance from the short cuts i took at 24, and added them accumulatively to the end of my drills at 37.

sliding ever slippery
sluced, deduced by weight

the mud is robbed of value
laden naturally innate

strip mines find the gold
but drown the hills to do

whats worth more: the gold to take
or the lives of that
washed through?

#goldrush #exploitation #california #dang

p2

it brings possibilities
to fill the world with
in every pissible space

Stuff in a box
the past and present
to hold till the future takes shape.

p1

a box isn't whole
until it is filled
providing its purposefull shape

a wall to protect
and a bottom sufficiant
for lifting its passengers' weight

stuff will collect
across every surface
despite its various forms

defining shapes a prism
from which we see the world
bringing shape to different aspects
when the scope is twirled

when some aspects appear more brightly,
others fade to grey,
forgotten til perspective twists
brin them into frame

#kaleidoscope #communication
#perspectives

Feelings feel ambiguous
When they hurt to touch
The steeper pressure pushing
Means they'll spray and fuzz and
Cuss-out your mouth, and
Roll back your back and
Run the rage of the years
Ending in a silence panting-

I'll put gatorades right here.

#mentalhealth #feelings #poem

The memories of yesterday
Slowly slip away,
Like bird house color
Raised by sun and rain.

Let us bring the best ones out,
Repaint their fading patterns,
So we can roost
Within their brightened frames.

#memory #restoration #birdhouses #poem

Ringing from amps
and barre chord cramps
Are a miniscule price to pay

For dive bombing bass
and forgetting mistakes
Resolving the mess as you play

A handfull of hours
and traffic that flours
Your hybrid with smoggiest smoke

They can't dilute
the dance of the lute
or the drumers uproarious jokes

Years ago, I danced a lot of contact improvisation (a form akin to lyrical).

When doing the forms, they went best when getting caught up in the moment. When present and intentional in the dance.

Verisimilitude broke if I was judging my movements, which often looked silly if taken too seriously.

Manage not the fumes,
Of paints, and cleans, and ions,
Or you'll need to crack a window
And freeze your butt from 5:00 on.

(a toast to hot tea)
#sleep #fumes #openwindow

Tonight my tuchos tuckered out
20 min from home.
Too much travel stuck in traffic
makes my body numb.
#LAlife #theCalifornia's #traffic

Sometimes it seems to start a journey,
it takes a sort of step,
whether whisking whirling wildly leaping,
or inching towards at best.

An empty space and future,
to shape with each our words,
May we take steps towards each other,
So You and I are heard.

-whisp