87: Ready

I read to you tonight
You gave me courage, with your insight.
My head is reeling
But I want to remember this feeling.

At first there was a silence
I didn’t know how to take.
Were you confused?
Had I lost you?
Were you stumbling over words
To let me down gently?

These thoughts collide inside my brain.
Was the meaning too obscure?
Is my judgement faulty?
I felt this piece had merit
Was I misguided?
My pride has fallen.

I hear you speaking
But in my jaded state
I do not listen.
Blah blah blah write
Blah exhibit
Sell, blah blah publish…

But your voices are excited.
The energy catches hold of my heart
And ripples through me.
That word permeated my brain.
I am astonished.
Publish, you said publish!

I look up and see your faces
There is encouragement and more.
Ideas and suggestions
Not to improve or remodel
But to print to promote
To publish, to sell!

This feeling I really like
I want to stand before the mic’
You give me courage to perform
My enthusiasm reborn.

Lady Satellite

46: Spoken Word

Oh My God 2014

The year I started living

Thanks to Steve

And a whole lot of therapy

I’ve woken up

From my dream.

I can feel for the first time

From my fingers to my toes

And everything in between.

So hard to believe my life before

I just ‘was’

But this is living.

I try new things

Boundaries have slipped away

I crave new experiences

And I savour the feelings I find.

I have become bold

And fearless

As I’ve stripped away the old.

The introvert has gone

And this new person I have found

Surprise, surprise, this me

I do not recognise

Is out there loud and proud.

An extrovert

I can’t believe I’m doing

Or considering

Half the things inside my head.

I really am alive

Like Pinocchio

Wood made into flesh

Before I was so dead.

Now I need to find my people

The ones that feel deeply as I do

The ones that will challenge

And encourage me

With energy and verve

The ones that will take me to the next level

And help me hold my nerve.

The stage, the stage

All the world’s a stage

I need to take these words

And lift them of the page.

To the devotees of spoken word

I seek you here and now

I welcome you into my world

Come what may, just WOW!

Lady Satellite

Feeling so inspired by Sarah Kay today and other spoken word artists. They write amazing poetry but then they remember all the lines and get their timing just right amazes me. I want that!!