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happy 2010, let's love harder and walk faster into the light
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happy 2010 everyone, let's love harder and walk faster into the light
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Hi Philippa,
slowly the people begin to meet and find the right ones. I talked to Carsten months ago and yesterday i met Petra Rennings and her husband. A very special and sympatic cupple.
Conny
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Hi! I am on a poetry tour in the UK, guest of Sustained Theatre and Apples and Snakes. performing with the poet laureate of SA, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Don Mattera and Lebo Mashile. I am truly blessed and excited - first show tonight in birmingham.…
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Hi Philippa, dont worry, Lucy is a spam mailing person. Nothing special , she/he wrote to mostly all. Conny
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...don't worry, wouldn't mind if I was. My parents came from East Prussia, which had been roughly the same geographical area, yet it's been another cultural stream which has almost disappeared today.
It's a good thing in Europe…
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(blush) I thought you were Polish!
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song of the dead
Song of the dead
Pity the man who fell down in the marketplace,
arrested by death in the bright of day. Innocent,
condemned to the common law of fate:
pity the man.
Pity the man.
Life is just a shelter for the soul.
Life is just a shelter for the soul.
Pity the daughter in the white room, who left her
illness in the envelope of her flesh. We,
the living, she
the bereft:
pity the daughter.
Pity the… Continue
Pity the man who fell down in the marketplace,
arrested by death in the bright of day. Innocent,
condemned to the common law of fate:
pity the man.
Pity the man.
Life is just a shelter for the soul.
Life is just a shelter for the soul.
Pity the daughter in the white room, who left her
illness in the envelope of her flesh. We,
the living, she
the bereft:
pity the daughter.
Pity the… Continue
Posted on September 30, 2009 at 10:27pm
Stolen rivers
We Africans came to Berlin to sing
and recite poetry. We had an agenda:
the pillage, the cries
like snakes losing their skins,
like forest fires, like haunted children,
remembering our anthems of loss,
galloping, consuming,
how can we, how can we
even begin to redress?
Enraged, we wanted to rebuke,
and then...
you opened your mouth and
every stolen river of diamond and gold
poured out of your mouth in song,
platinum… Continue
and recite poetry. We had an agenda:
the pillage, the cries
like snakes losing their skins,
like forest fires, like haunted children,
remembering our anthems of loss,
galloping, consuming,
how can we, how can we
even begin to redress?
Enraged, we wanted to rebuke,
and then...
you opened your mouth and
every stolen river of diamond and gold
poured out of your mouth in song,
platinum… Continue
Posted on September 30, 2009 at 10:13pm
Anthem: the possibility of evolution and the evolution of possibility
Words sketch images on the air.
Voice sets them on fire. I am
mostly water: performance is
extinguished in me,
I absorb it.
I watch traditions foot stamping
the grammar of indlamu, kiba, mohobelo
dancing themselves back to divinity
and a heavy flood
bursts between the chambers of my heart
bright red
vital
systole diastole
systole diastole
systole diastole
systole
Which is the echo? Which is the… Continue
Voice sets them on fire. I am
mostly water: performance is
extinguished in me,
I absorb it.
I watch traditions foot stamping
the grammar of indlamu, kiba, mohobelo
dancing themselves back to divinity
and a heavy flood
bursts between the chambers of my heart
bright red
vital
systole diastole
systole diastole
systole diastole
systole
Which is the echo? Which is the… Continue
Posted on September 30, 2009 at 9:29pm
Comment Wall (15 comments)
- At 5:04pm on December 30, 2009,
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers said…
- happy 2010, let's love harder and walk faster into the light
- At 5:04pm on December 30, 2009,
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers said…
- happy 2010 everyone, let's love harder and walk faster into the light
- At 12:23pm on November 1, 2009,
Conny said…
- Hi Philippa,
slowly the people begin to meet and find the right ones. I talked to Carsten months ago and yesterday i met Petra Rennings and her husband. A very special and sympatic cupple.
Conny
- At 12:28am on October 31, 2009,
Carsten Trotzkowski said…
- Moin, Philippa,
yes, Conny is right - yet I would call "Lucy" it neither "he/she", but "it" - a spam bot, capable of applying the same message to dozens of blog accounts in some seconds. In this case, I also would guess it was a "phishing" attack on Sawubona - with an external email address as a bait.
I bet those who answered her emailing requests will receive lots of spam mail in the future....
Sadly, but truly, there are always people in the world that would even use benficial projects to make money from with unfair methods :-(
But let's hope this site will have only that little frequency of attacks like it had during the recent times.
How is life? Any good performances lately? For me it had been a real highlight meeting one of our really noble characters from Sawubona Poems contest in real life yesterday.
Maybe we will also happen to meet one day?
:+) Carsten (+:
- At 9:07pm on October 30, 2009,
Conny said…
- Hi Philippa, dont worry, Lucy is a spam mailing person. Nothing special , she/he wrote to mostly all. Conny
- At 9:24am on October 2, 2009,
Carsten Trotzkowski said…
- ...don't worry, wouldn't mind if I was. My parents came from East Prussia, which had been roughly the same geographical area, yet it's been another cultural stream which has almost disappeared today.
It's a good thing in Europe those questions tend to become more and more unimportant, and hopefully throughout the world. At least it is not really a concern in this community.
You also appear to be more like a metropolian (not to say "MetroPolish")?
:+) Carsten (+:
- At 5:25pm on October 1, 2009,
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers said…
- (blush) I thought you were Polish!
- At 11:31am on October 1, 2009,
Carsten Trotzkowski said…
- Moin, Philippa,
right - I think you said "dziękuję" for "thank you", which is what I learned on my first trip to Poland I had this year. It is a well known fact that any audience will be grateful if the artists can say some words in the local language - and for us Germans this might even be more advisable when visiting Poland - because of our problematical history - and it prooved to be. Had been a marvellous trip to meet very kind people.
About the ILB it might be advisable to write some more mails to Mrs. Agitelli from the ILB (I think I had forwarded the mails to you last time), requesting a proper tranfer date commitment. It took some time, at last it worked.
Great peoms you've put online here - some might really resonate in music...
:+) Carsten (+:
- At 7:57pm on September 30, 2009,
Carsten Trotzkowski said…
- Moin, Phillippa,
thank you, I'm fine. I hope the prize has finally also reached you.
Are you still performing your poems with live music?
:+) Carsten (+:
- At 5:19pm on August 4, 2009,
The Poems Reader! said… - Thank you, Phillippa,
I forwarded your information to Mrs. Agritelli from the Literature Festival. I suppose she will contact you for the transfer details.
For my little (not quite widely regarded) try in giving a voice to your poem, you could check it out in the player on The Poems Reader I had created. Thought it would be a good idea to start some podcasting of Sawubona poems and started with the winning ones. At least I managed to get Niran's original voice into it, which in return was then taken into a song of Lucky Thobela.
Still, some more Sawubona poems of African poets were directly transferred in music (i.e. without podcasting), so you might want to hear some from my own page player (I know you are doing similar things with music and poetry). You will find 2 pieces of Philo Ikonya, and one respectively for: Otiato Guguyu, Babu and Anne Kamoni.
Conny and a russian arranger also did a great job on a poem of South Africa's Eileen van Zyl, they even made a life performance with a famous opera singer von New Zealand, you'll find a video there.
Please let me know if you want "The River" to be removed from the player, or replaced by your new professional version, or if you would like to have some strange music arranged over it ;-)
Good to hear your poetry profession is taking you to international performances. Would have loved to hear you, yet even in the Age Of Information we don't catch everything that is valuable. Hope you enjoyed your trip!
:-) Carsten (-:
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Hi Carsten, bin heute seit langem mal wieder auf Sawubona gewesen. Hast du die Geschichte mit den Digital Musicians schon gesehen oder getestet? Wie geht es so, was macht die Musik?
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i love it.!!!so hows the new year.?
what are u working on.?
any more opportunities for poetry.?
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Sorry have been out so long....just a lot has happened in my life and re adjusting is taking some time.......but as you see I have some of the music I have done here at home posted now....hope to get to spend more time here....everyone take care..
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