What's left
inside the faint outlines
of the breath that blows
the dust off the story
resembles footprints
and angels

#smallpoems

more inspiration from the margins of The Art of Is with #improvisart

@tellio

"In 1913 the pioneering American composer Charles Ives subtitled his second string quartet thus: “4 men — who converse, discuss, argue (in re: ‘Politick’), fight, shake hands, shut up — then walk up the mountainside to view the firmament.”

-- from Art of Is (just to let you know, I am still in there, reading and making poems and stuff. Thx)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfarCi3SPQ

#improvisart

Whose voice
is this, whose
words am I
singing, whose
music am I playing?

I am embodied
in tone and movement,
in sound and story,
the rich tapestry of
listening becoming the
means of speaking

Listen, and you will hear
multitudes

#smallpoems

— inspired by The Art of Is shared reading ... #improvisart

I am You -
the one who
sings your
stories of
follies and glories
with the muse
in your ear --
can you not hear
the past pushing
its way
into the present?

#smallpoems

-- inspired by The Art of Is reading with #improvisart

Further poetic explorations with the Open AI tool, which I had used for poetry a few days ago and continue onward with revealing a poem ... https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQft6r3HFEqkQK5a2beC6aGWzr8vuhw8uUdskL5ZjTukfv4zpgRjG04gW23pWkeaZh_obXLgmQocnjq/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 #improvisart

info/process notes at my blog: http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2019/05/21/one-step-further-collaborating-with-ai-open/

These sounds of this lost night --
your breath lingering in my ear,
as if I were another seashell collector --
a huckster with a story to tell --
these are are your words, all tangled up
beyond articulation, twisting along the insides
as smooth as glass, my fingertips gliding
over it all, a gentle hum that comes from
a gentle touch --
We are reduced to tone and noise
and heart and patterns

#smallpoems

-- inspired by #improvisart -- Note: formatting is odd here. Go https://write.as/dogtrax/these-sounds-of-this-lost-night

“There’s something that happens when musicians stray from the planned or written arrangement, perhaps it’s that place that jazz musicians go. It’s the feeling of freedom within a framework, connected to our human instinct to keep reinventing, changing, and modifying.”

-- from Soul Mining (A Musical Life), by Daniel Lanois, page 76

#smallquotes connecting with the idea of #improvisart
#AmReading

Theft: A History of Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-8X4G5s6Rw&feature=youtu.be

This comic project (it’s a book) and the video connects nicely to some of the ideas being explored in #improvisart

Every single strand
connecting
those words together
have long since
been severed ...
I am removed,
and so, too, is
what I wrote
when I wondered if
I knew what it is
I wanted to do

-- inspired by and in the margins of Art of Is for #improvisart

#smallpoems