I’ve just written a preamble on YouTube - which btw is only me reading : no bells and whistles. I’m really just trying to find out what the screen recording options are. FYI pressing screen record button and holding down outs external mic on as well as screen record. Whether this will prove useful I’ve yet to discover.
Here’s a story I was told
Amplify it? Make it hold!
Take it from its starting place-
Change the culture change it’s face ?
Make it modern. Give it twists!
Sanitise it. No give them fists
Have them fighting in the aisles
Bring the themes in - make it vile!
Make it darker. Make it black
Bring the night time drama back .
Make them jump give them the grooves
Have them twitching with each move.
Take the features hidden here
Make them bigger- make them clear..
tell the ‘truth’ let us know the plot
Is there to help us. Make it stop!
Give us chuckles give us frights
See our faces - entranced at sights
You didn’t tell us - by omission
Let us use our inner vision .
Give us questions - make us think
Capture us leave room to link
To everything we know and more
To let us wonder what is the score
Where on earth do these tales hail from
Are they powers of good or will we ail from
Immersion in the fables wild
That once were told to every child
What horrors and injustices
What horrid folk what world is this
Uncertain futures: mean and weird
Subterfuge, plots to be feared.
Cunning side by side with ‘magic’
Flirting between charm snd tragic
Pasts and futures and across the times
Forests abs fairies demons and rhymes
Spells and outcasts jinxes and powers
What better way to pass the hours?
In barns by fire sides in bed or out
With friends connected by each shout
( we jump together) now we’re shivering!
Our common language sends us quivering
Wanting less yet more and more
Tales that tell us what’s the score
The stuff we do not know connecting
Minds on fire without directing
Sends out signals - this is it
A bunch of wide eyed apes just sit
The stunned and stunning forms collide
So much is happening - it’s all inside.
We laugh and love we hope snd dream
We doubt and long we cling to every theme
We know it’s truth yet cannot be
We know the characters as well as me
In fact they’re us and so they should
Enrapture as only ourselves could
Waking visions of meaning uncertain
Our unconsciousness - behind a curtain.
@misterdemp Feb 2022
Cool performance delivery of these appealing words!
@berni1954 Feb 2022
Brilliant deconstruction of the whole idea of story and its significance in our lives. Chapeau! Now get rapping!
@emkaydeebee Feb 2022
Oh my goodness, this is special! I have a couple of story teller friends and I can totally picture them reciting this at the beginning of an evening to bring people into the fold. This is epic!
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 2022
Wow great write! This reads as a very nice poem, but would also be great just spoken word with some music :D Nice skirmish!
@wobbiewobbit Feb 2022
nice observations on storytelling and where it happens. thoughtful stuff. nice skirmishing!
@arthurrossi Feb 2022
I already liked the title very much... Great idea and such a gorgeous write! There is a perfect flow in the words, they read like a beautiful poem even without music...