Telluric Justice.

Everyone seemed to be otherwise engaged during my reading at the Albany Social Justice Center this week with the exception of a hardcore crew. We had a lovely dinner at Van's Vietnamese Restaurant beforehand topped off with my FAVORITE VIETNAMESE COFFEE and made our way down the avenue to the show just as Dan was opening the doors.

It was in intimate reading with mostly family and friends. Some of whom were very old friends we have not seen in some time. I enjoyed myself and it seemed those in attendance did also. Here is a little recording I made and posted on Souncloud with some bits edited out to protect the goofy.

 :)

 Enjoy!    

Just click on this link below:                                                                                                                                             https://soundcloud.com/obeeduid/social-justice-center-19-sept

Telluric Eschatology...

I am proud to announce the issuing of my book "Telluric Voices." by Foothills Publishing!

As many of you know Foothills suffered a deviating fire last year. Today with the help of friends they are up, running and once again producing quality hand made books of poetry!

Here is a link to their site so you can see what they are all about:

http://www.foothillspublishing.com/id33.htm

I will have books for purchase at my feature reading at the long running Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY in Albany on September 19th!

Woot! See you there!!!

FYE: Telluric Reading Recorded Live @ Café Lena 01-Aug-12.

Meadowbrook Farm with Bennet Hill in the background.

In case you missed it or would just like to listen again, here is a Link to an Audio Recording I made on my iPhone at my reading last week with Ken Hada @ Café Lena 01-Aug-12:

obeedúid~ reading from "Telluric Voices" Live @ Café Lena.

The recording includes four recent poems followed by a survey of poems from my new book "Telluric Voices."

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Upcoming I will be reading @ The Poets of Pine Hollow Arboretum reading on Friday August 10th from 6:30 to 9:30. There will be a potluck supper beforehand from 5:30 to 6:30.

On Wednesday August 15th I will be doing a Performance Piece entitled: "Telluric Miniatures" @ The Poets' at the Altamont Fair. Readings at the Hotel Altamont stage in the Village and Carriage Museum begin @ 1:00 p.m.

See you there!

obeedúid~

07/Aug/12

A NEW telluric poem for tomorrow today.

The poetry of a rock wall on side of a mountain 

leaves you speechless:

Hours

           pass

you sit

astride

        this

        fieldstone

wall

words

           come

    slower

  now

each one

tethered

to lifetime

of use

misuse

the poem

more       sculpture

than painting

a process

a taking

away

removal

until all

that remains

is bone

white

          gleaming

cleansed

      by wind

through leaves

exposed

to light

of day.

obeedúid~

30-31/July/12

Telluric Delivery!

...just received shipment of the "Special-Limited-Shortrun-Café-Lena-Edition" of "Telluric Voices" courtesy of "Benevolent Bird" which I will be selling at my reading next week at Café Lena with Ken Hada in Saratoga on August 1st, 2012!!!!

All proceeds from this shortrun will be donated to the effort to rebuild the Czarnecki family home and  their business "Foothills Publishing" after their devastating fire.

Each copy includes the DVD "Telluric Visions" which contains 3 Videos based on poems in the book and a number of Bonus Audio Recordings from my recent reading!

obeedúid~

27/July/12

Almost Telluric...

Here's a little audio recording of a poem that just missed being included in Telluric Voices. It even almost became the "Main Menu Screen" on the "Telluric Visions." DVD, but since it was not in the actually book I chose to use the raw file of "Morning Doves In My Hollow Tree" instead. Who wants to hear a poem read over and over again on a loop you can't mute anyway! ;)

So here is the SoundCloud Link:

Why would there not be:

I still like it so maybe it will be in a future mix... Say: "Telluric Voices/Visions Part Deux..." ???

I mixed the original upload of "Morning Doves In My Hollow Tree." with a recording of me reading the poem into "Voice Plus" on my iPhone with a swirling effect.

Enjoy!

obeedúid~
21/July/12

Transformation: Into the Telluric:

I have often been fascinated by how my poems change and metamorphose. This past week I decided to look back at one poem in particular that appears in this book. It first appeared on my Hiking Blog: "Helder~Hiking Adventures!" back in November of 2010 with pictures and was also accompanied by a poem by Alan Casline. Both poems were a poetic experiment in response to our hike together on Bennett Hill. I actually wrote mine on my then new iPad as I hiked. It was immediate, impressionistic and spontaneous.

Not long afterwards Alan published it as a Broadside. Not much had changed at that point with the exception of some of the line formatting. The differences were subtle.

If you click on this image it will come up larger
in  your browser so you can read it.

Last year as I collected and composed this cycle of poems into a cohesive narrative things changed. I had hiked Bennett Hill several more times by then. Alone, and in different weather conditions at various times of the year. It had become home. Less a place of the world, more a place of contemplation, spiritual communion and reflection. 

Chronologically it is located fairly early in the cycle and as it was one of the first pieces completed soon after moving here that makes sense. This is how it appears in  "A Mythological Map of The Telluric Voices poems: What they symbolize and how they fit along The Path Of The Poet's' Journey."

3.) Nò ŏnŏquaàm: (I have had a beautiful dream.) Departure- "Supernatural Aid." Timeframe: One Autumn day.

The complete "Map" was an invaluable tool as I wrote and gathered the cycle. This much organization and ridged criteria is not normally characteristic of me but in this case it allowed me to focus and stick with the poetic path as it were. It allowed me see where I had been, where I was going and track my spiritual growth as well. (At some point in the future I will post the complete "Map" for the curious.) Here then, as summer swelters and beats on, is the finished poem as it appears in the book:

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"He now came in view of land, on which he debarked in safety, and could see the lodge of the Shining Manito[*], situated on a hill."  -Henry Rowe Schoolcraft: Algic Researches. 

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Nò ŏnŏquaàm:
 (I have had a beautiful dream.)

Wachtschù Mennitow [†]

your
arboreous-mane

now
autumn tincture

I stand alone

in white-pine grove
          search
for wetland

blinded
          by sunlight

crash through trees 

walk false trail
                      circle
                summit
 of dreams 

~

Listen

         trains

                 blow distance

         call me home 

to yesterdays

Shaman in tree-mask
speaks
 through wood:

"Lost one

             follow oak

                          don't forget"

~

        Switch-
 back
         down
       your
spine

Into
 shade
 your shalier
side
Birch litters
           your
           cliffs

       Sloping
    down
sharply

to moss
     covered
     lowlands
     of home

~

Here
       trail
less
      clearly

marked
I search again

make way
 to infinite
 futures

drink
 then onwards

find
 sacred spring
  encourage flow

drink
 say prayer

rest.

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[*] Manito: 'Spirit' -Henry Rowe Schoolcraft: Algic Researches. Schoolcraft was working with the Ojibwa language. The Mahican equivalent would be 'Mennitow'

[†] Wachtschù: 'Mountain, or hill.' :Schmick's Mahican Dictionary Edited by Carl Masthay. I have created Wachtschù Mennitow for my own purposes and in my own spiritual imaginings. Hence: Wachtschù [Mountian] Mennitow [Spirit].

obeedúid~

20/July/12