gil scott heron – a dream

by namaya on March 14, 2012

 vivid dream of

Gil Scott

very vivid

 

he was dressed

in a top hat and

raggedy black suit

a size too small.

unshaved,

emaciated face,

teeth missing, &

a scarecrow of a man

 

he is sitting in a school gymnasium,

laughing and jeering,

at a basketball team.

 

He was having a grand time,

   Get the ball, you damn fool!

   Blind people could play better!

 

It was so good

to see him laughing again.

 

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Disa p ear nce: jAz ku Ba

by admin on March 12, 2012

Disappearance: Fat- twats- woggy from bombay, & the aya Colas from whoRan –

Strange, I noticed things started to disappear more often.  urious, but I nver paid much atention to it. Things are never much as they apear, or should appear.

It started quite simple as simple and strange things are, a word kan a peer, objekts transform, the nown, be kums — ↓and then the kolectshuns of werds, !! symbols, trails, and trafik.

I followed each word, loose thought, as it kam and went.

lst, eye glasses. We all lo0z glass9s, there should be no ? az to werds – ideas r kaptured

then lost.

poems, shuld be good places 2 hold images, places of knowin’ – unknown – ﻉ@۩O#$!

A plague of dyspepsia, flatulence. BIG – GREASY FLATULENCE.

 

“No home fries, save the pig – no bacon!  Francis or otherwise!”

tiddly, tiddly, tiddly jam P _ AW – P.  kU – jA- dah

I will not be mitigated by memory.

FAKTS – Fat-twats – or amalgms of Merkury.

“Fat-twats.”

“yEs, dum fuk. like the aYacola put on the writer – Salmon Rushd – in?”

Who?

The wog from Bombay!

Salmon, was he supposed to meet us at the upstream café?

sophmoric – puns – you should be punting in Cambridge.

 

As to the matter of the crime: Appearances & Disappearance

The lOst glasses, are another matter.

Things were disap eering. Small slips – wo rds be kam colors.

MAGENTA

kurious how magenta is not a color, but it holds an ocean of memory, green

seawweed pungent green – rinsed – ariZen – wanted to become something more

k u – b a - 

“Look ma, look what I found!”

“demented child, its a plain ordinary e-minor chord lying on the rocks

sunning herself! when she gets a bit of a tan and turns her self over, gets a bit

of sun on her bum – she’ll warm up to soto voce – resondo – a bminor in a quirky

9th.”

“But, ma, what if no one takes her home?”

“There are no what “IFS’

POETRY

This cage of words,

symbols ideograms,

of sense and nonsense,

Ashbery twiddly dee

and twiddly dum,

concrete and sense,

Miles Davis inversions

of rhythms – Gill Evans

painted in arpegios

of Seville.

poems – F U K – I n

provincial.

Everyone trying to

be smooth in

in NOVA tion,

R The

 

I loved that girl with a vibrancy

            that was greater than

love.

“Love, you know. Bloody, holy mackeral, flip floping,

            mic from Galway! Sodomites of the church,

door mites gnitting and gnackering on the jib- jag

                        faltering rhyme of obscenity.

 

SIRENS of the Quay

jibber – jaggery – woggery

loverly- a room somewhere from

the cold night air.

A kosmonaught from the planet wog

            sauntered by and and slapped a 50 carrot diamond

in her cool evanescent hand?

“There are fifty carrots, but no diamond.”

She and the rabbit Kus mon naught from the planet

            love, leaped and frolicked, made love in

the house boat on the Seine.

“Tu faire un cuillere!”

“non, ta ku.”

Fucking worthless frogs, they can’t even articulate the

            ass from the neck. Ah, belle ku.

DIS – APPEARANCE

Two homeys from 145 and Grand Course in a lowrider, made from a Yamaha motor scooter, a rice burner par excellence, whoosed by and stole the I from the IRT.

“Bastards, who wants to go to Queens – Flu Shin – the outpost of the Chinese Empire. I’m only trying to find the 6 line, fleeced from a fornikating kop, well not really, but I loved the intonations of memory and time”

We were trothed to no one, but my love and I.

Each part, a memory and a k lu – a key to these sdorw – that a P P E A R ED  – then as suddenly errased themselves.

GLASSES

“Yes dear – she said in that gnawing – knowing voice – there on the damn table! Sweetheart! A voice as soft a lion purring in a dream, as tender as innocence and assonance — an assignation for lovers. “

I stood by a mirror and watched the draindrops fall, luscious round lollipop sized kisses, one by two, soldiers on the front lines, exposing the vibratum de amour, the solstice of Venus as I devoured her…

“But if love – were redemption – what is the pool of memory that would tempt fate – and of love itself – what would we find? “

“k- Za – ku da – said the punk Kus- monaught who came with a bouquet of carrots – all 50 diamonds. b holder of the light. “

“What was light, when light dreamed of being light?  What was a photon swimming through time who imagined herself coupling with another? Or merely a fragment to a key in an instant where love required nothing more than the desire nor love.”

               ɸ͏

It is not what I meant at all. Neither Alpha or Omega

 

“Za – Ku – da.!”  spoke the Kusmonaught from Ku.

Scuttling across the ocean floor, looking for a rom for tea, or merely – looking for

my glasses.

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The last days of winter tenaciously cling, but it is only early March, and it is good to be back to Blue Heron Pond. My teddy bear is on my desk waiting for me, impatiently waiting to be my muse, the Blue Heron is waiting nestled in the hemlock, a hundred poems and stories are waiting to be told, but then suddenly a wisp of saffron colors appears.

Redemption and Stasis: Return to Love.

spring thaw

ice holds
tenaciously
to the pond.

a saffron colored
whisper…

an autumn
beech
leaf

astray?

it swirls
in the
center
near
the
white
Buddha
rock

“Li Pon?”

wind
blows
from
the East.

Pond
quite

still.

 

“Li Reminds me”

love
is
love.

some things
are
constants.

love
is
love

 

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Abbey Theater & Good to be Ireland

by namaya on March 1, 2012

Ireland, home, or at least one of the focal points on the planet. I could see living in Dublin for a time if there was support from the Arts Council and other groups. The performance and arts scene here is vibrant and vital, despite the economic doldrums, the centers for solo performance are abundant, and open to experimental work. The main stream theaters, like the Abbey and the Civic are vibrant, and we had see a production of “Bookworm” by Bernard Farrell -  well presented, contemporary comedy on the Irish middle class and the economic times.

Good meetings and connections with Irish Theater institute and their support and advice was welcomed. Met with Carl the Becket director who is doing a production of Becket in Gaelic (thickening the stew).  The environment is very hospitable and some folks at the Irish Council of the Arts are very helpful.  I am trying to navigate the path of finding galleries, support, and help with the plays and the art projects. Dublin would be an ideal base, for performance and establishing connections for theater productions of the BEATNIK CAFE and FOUR PROPHETS. The task is that Dublin, even with the economic downturn is expensive. The artist’s life, having the time to create, the energy to execute the products, and meeting your financial needs.

My host in Skerries on the beach could not be more gracious and accommodating.Lovely spot out here and it is my current home base in Europe. Tonight, I  played with a local Irish band at a pub. Tomorrow, visiting with some theater friends.

 

 

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Paris the Dance of Life: Danser sa vie

by namaya on February 25, 2012

PICTURE NOTRE DAME

Yesterday, was a sunny glorious day, Paris was bright, the Seine dancing with the sunlight

Paris even on grey wintery days is a great joy to walk through and discover. Though the iconic places like the Notre Dame are lovely and a place you can not visit often enough, I prefer the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter – the street of the pickpockets, the Butchers street, the narrowest street in Paris is Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche the street of the fishing cat, and the other tiny alleyways Though the true origin of all of these streets have long been lost, the names capture it perfectly.  Most of the Latin Quarter has been sanitized, scrubbed clean, and made very safe for tourists… I prefer leaping back into history and imagining what these twists and turns were like, even a hundred years ago when these alleys and back streets were dangerous after dark.  This is the geometry of time that has defied Baron Hausman’s wrecking ball of old Paris, the Paris that sought modernity and La Belle Epoque.

Though every inch of paris has been written about and discovered one hundred times over,  I prefer the secret streets of Montmarte high on the hillside of Paris. In the back corners, hidden by a tiny iron black gate with rusted hinges, I want to be the first in years to open it up, but the heavy lock says it is firmly shut.

I like wandering these streets towards some unknown destination, allowing my imagination and curiosity to guide me.

Today, back to the Pompidou, where the art work and the exposition on Dance and contemporary culture is fantastic. For the first time I had seen the Najinsky performance Dance of the faun.  Stunning! This should 10 minute piece from 1912 must have caused the proper folks of Russia to have a heart attack or an orgasm that night. Beautiful performance.  The trip to Paris is almost worth this one show of Danser Sa Vie.

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Paris! Not paris Texas.

by namaya on February 23, 2012

First day of being back in Paris.  Though I have been here numerous time, I never lose my fascination with the city. I usually try to get back here every year to two years, if I can, but I had been in Marseilles and in the south in recent years. I was excited to slowly arrive, with the country side north of Charles De Gaul rolling by the airplane window. When we got to the apartment rental, it was a construction zone, with hammers from the adjacent apartment. A bit shabby of a place, but for $60 in the middle of Paris, it was a deal worth trying. But the first hour, jet lagged, and trying to sleep with the booming of hammers. No matter how tired, I couldn’t sleep through it. A quick reconnoitering with Zoe and we rented a quiet hotel room on the sixth floor.

I have been falling in love with a number of places lately, but there is always a place of affection for Paris. Even after seeing the Notre Dame over the years, there is a grace and elegance that remains. Though my legs are walked off, I am very happy to be back.

For the first time I saw the Mona Lisa, she seemed diminished by being alone against the huge wall, behind bullet proof glass. This simple portrait of a young woman has drawn such attention and remains one of the icons of the European culture.

More to come tomorrow, it is late, in Paris. Grey and drizzling day cannot diminish this magnificent city.  I am thoroughly enjoying wandering through the streets of the latin quarter in the 5th arroindesment.  Good to be back. Good to reconnect. But man… has Paris become expensive!

 

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Off to Paris via NYC, and the Church of Love

by namaya on February 20, 2012

Back in Vermont for about a week and a half. Thoroughly enjoyed the connection of being back at home, and the familiar joy of home. But after connecting with friends and neighbors, it was good to go back to NY and see family, and meet our new friends Roy and Sue…artists and activists.  The simple joys in life are sometimes the most profound, spending time with close friends and family. There is so much work to do in the world, so many to help and care for, but sometimes it is good to take a break from it, and savor fully the sweet joy in life.

Today, we are in Queens, and we saw the JIM HENSON RETROSPECTIVE at the Museum of Moving Images. What a delightful surprise. I had only known about his work with the Sesame Street, and did not realize how imaginative he was.The exhibit traced his life work and it was a rich journey of creativity.

Tomorrow, i’ll stop in at the New Museum and Guggenheim before the flight to Paris. New shows at both museums.

It is fascinating for me to watch my visual art side continue to flourish and grow, while at the same time I am continuing my work with writing.  Some new poems over the past week on the Familiarity of Home. None ready to be released. Another new poem in the works for a celebration of North Florida Women Health Center “I celebrate our heroes of Women’s health” though the title may be prosaic, at this point, the content is powerful. This week another women’s health center destroyed by arson.

To the Right to Lifers – if you are so concerned about Right to Life – why don’t they picket the Pentagon?  Or protest capital punishment?

These women who continue to provide health care, family planning, and when necessary safe medical abortions are my heroes. I think of the millions of women around the world who suffer because of the fanatical fundamentalism of religion and plain ordinary stupidity. I am not sure where one ends and the other begins.

My new play FOUR PROPHETS is waiting for a producer. I need to spend time with this, because despite the ‘comedic’ elements it is a play that powerfully speaks for a theology that is humanistic, filled with joy and love, and if there are no religions that offer that… then i will do with out a religion. I will call my new church “ir Reveren’s jAz: Church of Love.”

Great joy to all of you!

 

 

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Transformations! In Spades.

by namaya on February 13, 2012

Transformation in Spades. For those who had been reading, following, commenting, etc. and have wondered why the usual garrulous poet has been silent, i have been having too much fun! Yes, too much fun!  My number one organizational goal has been to have more fun in 2012 and it has been raining fun.

San Miguel de Allende in Mexico has been a great joy. Wonderful new friends like Ana Theil the glass artist, Nick and ManRay from Mineral de Possos, Efraim from Institute of Art in San Miguel, Adolpho Falcon the artist and sculptor, and a host of the marvelous characters and friends in San Miguel that makes it one of the most culturally vibrant cities we’ve been to.

Pepe Romero came into town and played Recuerdos of Alhambra, as an on encore that was spell-binding.

Jimmy Ray and the Chapel of Love had their annual party – and it was San Francisco and the Summer of love in 1967 all over again.

Jack Stillwater and his partner Francis three nights a week perform stellar classical music.

Pedro Cartas plays superb electric violin three nights a week.

I also had the opportunity to perform CELEBRATE LIFE: Stories of the Sublime and the Absurd

The new website is up www.warisporn.us with the works by the internationally renowned peace artist  Art Rat #1.

Great joy to all of you.  – Namaya – Art Rat #1

 

 

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San Miguel De Allende – A bit of Paradise

by namaya on January 22, 2012

San Miguel Mexico 20 jan 12
Is this the best kept secret that I am going to blab about?  Tennis at 8AM, roosters crowing, beautiful swept clay tennis courts, weather about 68,  cost of  playing is about $4. an hour, and the skies are clear.  Last night heard the most phenomenal of Flamenco music with the Luna De Flamenco group, then Jack Stillwater shows up in a gallery and is playing some of his amazing  classical guitar pieces. This guy is writing some of the best classical guitar pieces I’ve heard in  a long time. If that is not orgiastic enough we go over and discover one of the best Jazz violinists on the planet Pedro Cartas or at least the best since the passing of Grapelli!  This was one of the best nights of music in my long life. Then this afternoon visiting with my friend Ana Thiel the incredibly talented glass sculptor at her studio – wonderful hospitality.

This is a winter paradise.

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VT POET IN MEXICO

by namaya on January 17, 2012

WINTER IN SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDALE

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