Friday, December 21, 2012

The Jester Speaks ... HIS LAST WORDS ON "2012 & ALL THAT"

Magnetic pole reversal around this time would be a good result for 2012 change of consciousness theorists, as while this inevitable & probably imminent geological event is not predicted to have any catastrophic effects, it seems plausible that it might have some subtle yet profound effect upon our brains. 

What is certain is that, when it occurs, every compass in the world will suddenly point South - it will turn the world upside down! It will also be the end of one time & the beginning of another - an epoch known as a 'chron' x

Sunday, April 8, 2012

THE MAN WITH THE STRIPY SCARF

A leaf upon the river, spun around & round, & to & fro - 'tis a puppet to the fickle fancies of the water's whorls & eddies, wheeling just below. O'er each tiny movement in it's every subtle dance, it has no control - & yet!- it is always going where it set out to go, for there is a deeper current, a greater flow, only one direction, "home, always home".

The lyrical riff above emerged organically in an email to Charlotte. If it is a poem? Then it is the first new poem I have written in about a year. I stopped writing almost completely shortly after I recorded Silenced in 2010 - perhaps I took my song too literally?

I have attached two of my very first poems, one of which is also a meditation on the nature of silence. I was most upset when I discovered that the title was not wholly original- it must have been lurking somewhere, somewhere just below the surface.

My teacher wrote on it that I should learn it for Thursday's assembly - that was my very first performance ever! It was the last for over a decade. Perhaps I took my poem too literally?

I'm forever changing the manner in which I live my life & express myself, sometimes disconcertingly abruptly. This is why my life has been compared to a stripy scarf. Yet, underlying my eclecticism, there is a thematic unity.

Josh, 2012

nb - The quote at the end is by Novalis - I first read it quoted in Hermann Hesse's "The Journey to the East". These three words immediately brought to mind the mission statement of my mother's religion - "our one, single, illumined endeavour will, and must, be to come home to the warmth of kind". I am sure the former taut koan directly influenced the leader of my  Mum's religion to write his overly wordy take on the same theme, as he took the name Leo, the same name as the spiritual guide in The Journey to the East.