My OperaABOUT KULANGA
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:34:30 AM
I was born and grew up on a beautiful island in the Caribbean. In 1980 I made Canada my home. Several years later I began having a unique and personal relationship with God, and with the world. I began writing, painting, and trying to articulate and communicate the dynamics of this relationship.
When I wrote my first book, (Ultimate Betrayal) I had arrived at a crossroad in my life, mostly unconscious of the process of how I had gotten there.
I was thirty and had been walking typically ambitiously, but reluctantly, towards an uncertain future.
Then, due to a life changing incident, (which I now refer to as "The Ultimate Betrayal") I found myself "Wide Awaken" by tragedy, and hurting in the worst possible way.
But this incident helped me to evaluate my standards, reset my course, and define my way in life.
Suddenly I had something to say, an urgent story to tell, and a life task to articulate.
I had a scream I needed to exorcise, a God I needed to understand, a childhood I needed to unfold and dust off, and a future I needed to reprogram, appreciate and enjoy.
At this cross road I found (like most poets and creative do) that the only mediums that can best articulate and communicate the Mega Hertz voltage of a soul finally awakening up, were the creative arts.
Communicating the feelings of my soul was nothing short of magical and miraculous.
I very quickly found that my old way of thinking was no longer adequate to articulate this very profound and personal experience.
I became a human on a mission. One finally awaking and ready to listen and break through the solid mist of reality.
Creating a simple and creative artistic expressions through poetry worked for me. I am now able to express myself best when I write prose and poetry.
Words are inadequate, if not impossible, but the mostly impressionist ,and minimal word use of a poetry, is both a distraction and delightful challenge.
My first published book, "Slave Spirit Speaks", Is a retrospective poetic view of my African Caribbean ancestry. But the primal utterance of my emotional signature is a novel called "Ultimate Betrayal" (yet to be published). Both books in many ways are my emotional view points at the beginning of my spiritual evolution.
In an attempts to engage every cell of my being to this end,( to quote a line from the poem "Ancestral Mother" in the book "Slave Spirit Speaks")"here I stand in this world full of books to tell of the many things we have done"
I write, paint, and perform my poem with a voice, (which I am told is), "as crisp as life, as vivid as dream vision, alive gleaming with dancing eyes..." (S.S.S.,1993 Kulanga production.
My soon to be published Book, "The Book Of Joy" is a continuation of this burning desire to articulate this divine paradoxical, collective, individual journey we call life.
When I wrote my first book, (Ultimate Betrayal) I had arrived at a crossroad in my life, mostly unconscious of the process of how I had gotten there.
I was thirty and had been walking typically ambitiously, but reluctantly, towards an uncertain future.
Then, due to a life changing incident, (which I now refer to as "The Ultimate Betrayal") I found myself "Wide Awaken" by tragedy, and hurting in the worst possible way.
But this incident helped me to evaluate my standards, reset my course, and define my way in life.
Suddenly I had something to say, an urgent story to tell, and a life task to articulate.
I had a scream I needed to exorcise, a God I needed to understand, a childhood I needed to unfold and dust off, and a future I needed to reprogram, appreciate and enjoy.
At this cross road I found (like most poets and creative do) that the only mediums that can best articulate and communicate the Mega Hertz voltage of a soul finally awakening up, were the creative arts.
Communicating the feelings of my soul was nothing short of magical and miraculous.
I very quickly found that my old way of thinking was no longer adequate to articulate this very profound and personal experience.
I became a human on a mission. One finally awaking and ready to listen and break through the solid mist of reality.
Creating a simple and creative artistic expressions through poetry worked for me. I am now able to express myself best when I write prose and poetry.
Words are inadequate, if not impossible, but the mostly impressionist ,and minimal word use of a poetry, is both a distraction and delightful challenge.
My first published book, "Slave Spirit Speaks", Is a retrospective poetic view of my African Caribbean ancestry. But the primal utterance of my emotional signature is a novel called "Ultimate Betrayal" (yet to be published). Both books in many ways are my emotional view points at the beginning of my spiritual evolution.
In an attempts to engage every cell of my being to this end,( to quote a line from the poem "Ancestral Mother" in the book "Slave Spirit Speaks")"here I stand in this world full of books to tell of the many things we have done"
I write, paint, and perform my poem with a voice, (which I am told is), "as crisp as life, as vivid as dream vision, alive gleaming with dancing eyes..." (S.S.S.,1993 Kulanga production.
My soon to be published Book, "The Book Of Joy" is a continuation of this burning desire to articulate this divine paradoxical, collective, individual journey we call life.
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