WOW!
That is all that I can say about this day is WOW! ArtsKC really pulls out all the stops for the Inspiration breakfast, it is a beautiful occasion of warmth and giving and I am excited by all the wonderful people that I met on this day. I am MORE SO enthralled by the presentation given by Arts In Prison. This is most DEF an organization for you to check out! The work that they do is beautiful and I am blessed to have been a part of some of it.
Well. I won't gab too much - instead I will let you see the video that I was a part of for this festivity and the poem (a rough draft - YES YOU GET TO SEE A REAL PART OF MY ARTISTIC PROCESS!) that I recited for the occasion.
Remember - all you ever have to be to change the world is YOU!
ASPIRE
free form spoken word/ prose-poetry
but all i wanted to be was a lawyer
i aspired to change the world
was a perry mason jar
full of city girl country charm
longing to be the dog in the fight
the skirt that was the baddest
enthralled in my pre law classes
went to trials
watched law and order svu
i aspired to be this thing
but ended up an artist?
paint pictures with linguistics
change worlds with word
make an audience feel loved
this is mission and ministry
superhero capeing
artists are more than activist
we full vigilantes
i go rogue on legalities
grammar and standards
the court of law can't box me
disbarred these bars cant be
i free speech
when i freely speak
freedom's speech
i'm at freedoms peak
make my own confinement
then define the extreme
break those walls
peel the lid off
no ceiling
i'm more than i dreamed
more than i aspired to be
i argue the case
in skirt and stockings
or sweats and sneaks
spit lines that make fools think
go toe to toe with foes on concrete
for speaking truth
i have a winning streak
artists are lawyers for galleries and streets
we fight for your sanity
change taste with palettes
give diverse texture platform
show the world through our lens
make scriptures and minister in silence
see john cage 4'33
we make art out of the ignored and simplicity
collect strange beauty and show its fragility
like a glass menagerie - literally
the artist aspires to do greater things
the one that drew texture popping of the page
pop locked a benediction
pirouetted through a symphony of no's
to carve their own niche and have their own shows
from the guggenheim to the carnegie
westport coffee house to the starlight to the middle of the street
from soundcloud to the folk lore storytelling coming off lips
roll the 'spect with my beat loud
see the people gyrate and move hips
from kansas city to tanzania
we all aspire having different motives and reasons
i do it for tha culture
for the evolution
i do it to give hope in hopes that you see your own inner artistry
engage in the art of communications
indulge in the art of love making
and with every stroke change the world
with each seedling a new village
with each piece and new community
creating families and harmony
i could cancel your divorce if you let me ;-)
yoooo
i know my power
what's in me is more than i ever aspired to be
i'm an artist
and to change the world
that's all i ever have to be
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