the Sun is my gOd.
the Moon : my gOddess.
Manhattan : my first lOve.
& Brooklyn :
my hOme.
ODE TO THE BROOKLYN EARN
In unity, there is strength.
searching for authenticity
poetry is a waste of time
time is of the essence
the essence of success
.the cessation of
time
PROGRESS
flushed away
poetry's vitality
the cesspool of reality
YOU MUST SUCCEED
by any means necessary
the means justify the ends
until the end of time
all in good time
faster
than a speeding bullet
ride the
(rail)
against the machine
deus ex machina
denouement
close shave
rinse and repeat
and repeat
and repeat
a to b to a to b to c to b to a
lulled back to sleep
stay gold
phony boy
you must take the J train
for the best morning commute
into Manhattan
the french aristocracy
never saw it coming either
letting everyone down would be
my greatest unhappiness
make em laugh
make em laugh
don't you know everyone
wants to laugh
.Ha.Ha.
let's put a smile on that
(face)
.the music.
obligatory
encore
encore
encore
they are watching
open your eyes
they didn't know real love
could look like this too
maybe everything is fiction
it's better to burn out
than to fade away
Poetry is sculpture,
not interior decoration,
and must come from
the poet's head.
heart.
.all there is.
Often enough,
the killing will be done so without style or sincerity,
the matador making as little of it
as he can in order to decrease
its importance,
that the spectator will have no idea of the emotion and the spectacle that a properly killed bull will give.
(bellows)
The trumpet of a prophecy!
O Wind, if Winter comes,
can Spring be far behind?
The light wraps you
in its immortal flame,
abstracted pale mourner,
filled with the lives of fire,
pure heirs to the ruined day.
Love me, companion.
Do not forsake me.
Follow me -
but my words become
stained with your love.
.you occupy everything,
you occupy everything.
Clasping my arms
like a climbing plant
the leaves garnered your voice,
that was slow and at peace.
Bonfire of awe in which
my thirst is burning.
Let your deep eyes close.
There the night flutters.
Ah your body,
a frightened statue,
naked.
Your breast is enough for my heart,
and my wings for your freedom.
What was sleeping above your soul will rise out of my mouth to heaven.
Here all the winds let go sooner
or later,
.all of them.
You are here.
I love you.
Kadosh
kadosh
kadosh
to the rising sun.
Green
is the land of my ode, green and fertile.
(montage of brooklyn playgrounds overrun.bursting at the seams)
Little town in the woods,
how do you find me --
charged
with the earthly body of man
or with his words and deeds?
I will not give birth to a child
to bear the burden of my life.
The journey hasn't yet begun,
the road hasn't ended -
so let us go the highest mural
(wrap around mural)
Green and high
is the land of my ode -
the words of God at dawn.
Hold onto the hope that I bring you.
Let us take a walk through time.
(wind through Danielle's hair)
In every wind
a woman teases
her poet.
Take this ode
if you wish.
I have nothing
in it
but you.
(to the moon)
Between writing and speech
a star will fall.
What wind brought you here?
Tell me the name of your wound.
Beauty leads me to the beautiful,
and I love your love unchained
by its essence and attributes.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty--
that is all ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know.
I am my own double.
(pickle tubbers)
Rhythm is not the creation of words, but of two bodies become one
in a long night.
Young girl,
what has
desire
done to
you?
The wind
refines us.
.carries us
like autumn's scent.
On my walking stick,
(peach to peach)
you ripen and ripen -
(pan to rest of market)
but the earth is a feast.
(spot of blood)
This is my language,
this sound
is the twinge of my blood.
(flip through notebook)
- write to be -
(flip through books)
- read to find -
(up to you)
If you wish to speak,
you must take action.
Thus your opposing pair becomes
one
in the meaning.
(shh)
The transparent one within you
is your ode.
I need a dolla. dolla
dolla.
is what I need.
(not our size)
In exchange, let me contemplate
the stars.
(to god)
You cannot trap the immortal.
So do with us and with yourself whatever you wish.
(globe)
I wish to live.
I have work to do
on this bit of geography.
(360 view)
I want to live here as if I am forever, burning with lust for the unknown.
I have work to do
for the eternal presence
of today.
(in pursuit of magic/j to crescent church)
What use is Spring, if it does not bring joy to the dead.restore life?
That is one way to solve
the riddle of poetry.
Share in the passion of night.
steal along the language of desire, where earth and heaven merge
within.
(subway goers)
Relax.
Perhaps you are
exhausted today.
Who am I
that you should
pay me a visit?
Do you have time
to consider my poem?
.come with me while
I start my brief visit to
space
and
time.
(snap of lighter black to scene)
Green
is the land of my ode
green and high.
(close up puff.exhale.puff.exhale.)
- pass -
.Abbey.Abbey.Abbey.
(my fingers enter)
(i almost exist)
I will dream.
(myth)
myth has already taken place a plot within the real.
My present, like my future,
is with me.
(last 0:11 of manifesto)
The dream has untied my wings.
LIBERTY
is not to be as they want us to be
but to enlarge our home.
to carry on our everlasting song.
(pigeon flock)
The greatest absurdity is that nothing is new and time is past.
I've had enough yesterdays;
what I need is a tomorrow.
The mind is nothing
but smoke -
let it be lost!
The heart is our guide.
(walking the rainbow path)
Be what we are: vigorous creatures fully immersed in the physical world.
In us is poetry.
energy.
joy.
(bird taking off)
.leaP.
.hold on to this.
If children are verbs,
then
please
please
please
let
us
be
.
Mahmoud Darwish, Pablo Neruda, Brian Doyle, Ernest Hemingway