Listening, just listening to the muses and the spirits...

This Blog has been in cyber space for years I believe...a place where often I have dropped articles and stuff I thought would be helpful, inspiring,and need to be heard. I plan in this new year, 2018 to do some writing of my own here as well. I am working on a book, the working title is

Duende

A momentary burst of inspiration,

A playful hobgoblin,

 the breaking of plates

the causing of noise, and being a playful nuisance…

This title came to me as I reflected on my first visit to Naropa University and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. My workshop teacher and since then good friend Jaime Manrique, a wonderful writer and poet, introduced us to this concept. We read, talked and wrote from the lecture by Federico Garcia Lorca IN Search of Duende.

Karen and I had an opportunity to experience this spirit on our trip this last December (2017) on a island off Spain as we entered the world  of canta jondo or deep song, flamenco artists and the guitar.
It was wonderful.

One writer reminds us that Lorca's understanding of Duende has four elements as he writes about it;
irrationality, earthiness, a heightened awareness of death, and a dash of the diabolical. Not a bad mix for poetry.

If you are reading this, share your thoughts, let's have a chat about the spirits that move and scare you on your journey. I use scare in the best sense, waking us up!  Bye for now....