Dying/broken/forgiven.... now I begin

Born: 17-06-56....gemini.... monkey
re-born: 3-09-80
born again\found: 14-04-08
other notable dates: 10-03-68; 03-09-87; 23-03-96;
1-05-98; 31-01-02; 5-04-04

Interests: movement, stressed/transgressive embodiment, lived experience (body\space\time\relation)
expression ( word, dance, text, image, story, music, poetics)
learning, yielding......

Hopes for the blog:
offer up the wild intersectedness of lived experience and engage others in creative, expressive, perhaps irreverant, hopefully playful, and respectful encounters....
enact kindness
create moments of pause for disclosure, discovery, stillness

Monday, October 12, 2009

Allegory/Tango

In one of my lives, I'm a competitive
body
builder
of muscle, movement & guile
and aware of it, oh yes
all the while
I'm spinning and unraveling
code
I know I also dwell in it
careful to conceal
as much as I reveal
not falling prey to the cheesy grins
& easy smiles
littering this landscape
At the end of the day
I do a routine to music
I choose
the music is more important
than you might think
it is misdirection
indeed, it can be
Tango is a complicated
dance
wildness and control
barely contained
intensities of shape, proximity & speed
instantly recognizable by its rhythms
Roxanne is not a tango
in the traditional sense & yet
a stylized version had more
heart, movement and guile than I had felt in a time
It grabbed me by the throat
taking my breath away
thus
compelled & captured
I yielded
to its
authenticity
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9 comments:

  1. HarlequinOctober 12, 2009 at 8:42 PM

    not sure if this is allegory or not...
    but I wanted to give it a try in response to Jon's prompt at expressive subjects...

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  2. AnonymousOctober 13, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    I like your style again on this one, it has an intricate cleverness about it that stays in the mind.

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  3. Madame DeFargeOctober 13, 2009 at 6:12 PM

    Very clever indeed. Bears several readings, just to read the depth in it.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 14, 2009 at 2:28 AM

    Very clever, you. I am liking that such can be read in different ways. Taken by one's own life's experiences.

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  5. GarthOctober 14, 2009 at 3:32 PM

    "I yielded
    to its
    authenticity "
    Wise move - without the music all is grey :D

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  6. Dave KingOctober 15, 2009 at 7:00 AM

    I do believe you are living up to your hopes for your blog. Quite original. Well done.

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  7. JonOctober 15, 2009 at 10:00 PM

    Love the way that the words dance down the page... quite like the tango...

    And definitely an allegory... just what is up to each different reader... thanks for this

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  8. the walking manOctober 16, 2009 at 5:38 AM

    i have been reading this since you posted it H and I think I finally see the dance that is being done. The free and easy movement of one who is dancing from the soul through life contrasted with the dance of one concerned with not breaking the rules learned while being instructed in the dance and how there is beauty found in the formal movements of Roxanne. Yes I like this very much even though I am a bit slow on the uptake.

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  9. HarlequinOctober 17, 2009 at 12:26 AM

    Jimmy, Madame and SarahA-- thanks so much for the comments on cleverness and idiosyncracy... much appreciated!
    Pisces-- a sweet insight on the rhythm... thank you
    Dave-- thanks for this little reminder.... I suppose I am dwelling in this place in ways that continue to surprise me
    Jon... leave it to you to work with/in the shape of the words as well as their movement; thanks as always for the comment and sensibility
    WM-- there are all kinds of speeds in tango and they all work...

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