Blog Entry
Greetings family. I type this blog in better spirits than the previous entry because praise be to God, the dark cloud that I spoke of has moved on and I have found the joy and peace in my words again. I often times like to look through my previous pieces and try and see what frame of mind I was in at the time of writing. It's also as if I was taking a 3rd person view of myself which can be pretty revealing. But what I discovered that surprised me the most was that I was subconsciously penning an anthology of love poems within the past few weeks. That within itself isn't that surprising because I consider love poems as one of my strong suits but the quantity of love poems within that time frame surprised even me as I looked at it. It also may have answered a question that has been burning in my mind as of late. Has the quality of my poetry gone down as of late or has the initial sizzle that I once had just simply worn off? I posed that question to a friend of mine but never got a true answer. I just should have consulted with one of my poetic peers, I guess, looking at it in hindsight. I began to notice that my pieces were being read or commenting on by the same faithful few and I could not figure out why. I still don't know why actually. I figured that maybe the readers on this site had grown tired of my drops on the same topic. Maybe I was being typecast as a "love poet" and not a poet for the sake of writing poetry. So I decided to stop posting for a short while to find another avenue of inspiration. In the summer of 2004, I began to read the early works of Saul Williams in his first book, "The Seventh Octave". Within his words I saw what my work needed to be. The feeling I got reading "Untimely Meditations" still makes me hold my head in awe of his poetical mastery. I got such a creative jolt from his writing that it took me to another horizon. Remembering what his work did for me then, I searched for similar results now. And I was not disappointed. Saul Williams still has the ability to make me challenge my creativity without even knowing my name. So if you see a different direction in my writing as of late, it should be attributed to the inspiration I received from Mr. Williams. Thank you, brother. On a side note, I have to address the recent controversial actions and comments about situations involving Raw Sensuality and Stranger. It is sad that things got as far out of hand as it did and I will not make my personal feeling on the matter known at this time. However, I hope that the admins of this website do a better job in policing this site to ensure that actions and behavior of that nature isn't condoned or encouraged in the future. There is no need to lose more talented poets on this site due to chicanery and malice. In closing, continue to be good to one another family and always remember: Free your mind.... Elevate Y'all!!!