Prelude to Awakening [as well as my use of poetry as a serious literary device] manifested itself…
It started with History Lesson; a stream
of words that came to me as I was driving…
I immediately pulled over to capture the rhythmic river that just appeared in my mind out of [seemingly]
no where… no where/now here…
This was during the late Summer/early Fall of 2004…
I didn’t think much more of it…
In February of 2005, Perritos came to me
while I was in Costa Rica…
I couldn’t help but to think more of it…
Poetry was something that I hadn’t
written since my teenage years…
Now it was just here…
Thoughts and ideas were consistently
manifesting in poetic forms in my mind…
And I LIKED IT…!!!
And it was practical…
I felt that very few people read anymore…
I felt that many had shorter
attention spans than ever before…
I felt that many were electronically over-stimulated and in need of a commercial break every 5 -8 minutes…
I realized that by writing poetic memes I could introduce profound ideas in catchy sound-bite forms, thereby communicating messages of significance to individuals largely not capable of deeper contemplations much less actually questioning and challenging their own internal dialogues and knee jerk reactions, biases, prejudices and above all, BELIEFS…
Around May or June of 2005, after conversations with some creative friends, I decided that putting my poetic notions in audible form would be a good idea…
Prelude to Awakening is the result…