ZOËLAB: THE LIFE AS ART BLOG
Chaos & Connection
how could you let go
unless your heart knew there was something out there to catch you?
Breaking The Rules + The Routine
I am a daily practice pusher. A creative crusader, challenger.But... sometimes you need to break from the routine. Sometimes you need to break the rules and play hooky from your daily practices. Sometimes you need to “be bad” in order to find out the edges of your personality. Sometimes you have to try something different or just take the day off.
Creatures Night and Day
There is something to be said for peeing under the stars. Where the crickets can see you. I can hear them now with their staccato siren call. A surround sound symphony easing me into night.
Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
Don’t let the bastards get you down, my little one.
Be strong, and bring forth the parts you know to be true.
For if you do not, you will have not lived the life you were blessed with.
When The Going Gets Tough
remember to paint a picture
of your heart
where the tiny voice speaks
Why I must write
To write before they wake up,
before the sun rises,
to write before the tea boils,
before my thoughts become practical,
to write before I say why I shouldn’t,
Combining Poetry & Music Inspired by The Open Reading
I have yet to make a recording of the Mariposa Night piece. But instead, I recorded myself reading one of my recent poems that I like, called A Spider's Poem. I read the poem in three different voices and then layered the voices in different ways--even though they overlap, the repetition of the same poem highlights the lines rather than masking them.
(inspired by the gift)
The poets of past knew something worth knowing.
To value that which is invisible to the eye and to listen
with the open throats of baby birds.
How to Sing or Do Anything
Way back when I was in college in the 1990's, I wrote a poem called "How to Masturbate." It was a racy title for a spiritual type of experience in nature. That started a new form of poetry for me, that I like to call "Instructive Poetry." Since then I have written a few more. I hope to someday publish a book of instructive poems.
Come Forward with Your Art
Come forward with your art,
come share the truth of your decay,
your ultimate humility.
Poem Inspired by Andrea Gibson
What would I write
if I did not feel a need to sensor myself?
The Spider's Poem
I have been a sealed up hermit, and poetry is what has been coming out of me...
Poems by New Yorkers in Massachusetts
We tend to lose our connection to our surroundings when we get deeply in a conversation, which is what happened as we neared the end of the 90 minute hike. Suddenly we had no idea how to get back to where we had parked. Luckily, we saw a hiker walking confidently down the path and asked her for directions.
Turning Against The Self
Sometimes we get what we want, and we rejoice.
Sometimes we get what we want, and fear makes us recoil.
Sometimes we don’t get what we want, and we learn and grow.
Sometimes we don’t get what we want, and we turn against ourselves.
How did it get this way?
The freedom is inside, the outside is a mess. The life I see before me is not the life I ever imagined. It surprises me daily with its fiction, its ability to tell stories.