October 1, 2010

A Personal Manifesto

There exists a mental state, set for a stage within an author’s head, where the sole thought is writing. Not the focus of one’s being, the Sole thought. It comes down to a schizophrenic mental urge to do little else. A point, when everything else, even those elements that form inspirations to induce ideas, like music, idols, drugs, reality, alternate work, the pointlessness of life and satire, transform into mere distractions. Until, the self is the only inspiration, and working at producing more material isn’t merely an obsession, it’s a necessity. It’s the one thing that keeps you mentally alive. Until you begin to formulate an honest fact in your head, it’s the only real principle that governs your life. It applies, because everything is immaterial, save for this art form to express everything in your dysfunctional head across. It doesn’t even matter if the material is good or not, just the fact that you put an original, personal creative impulse to work, says a lot about how true you are to yourself, and the lengths you would go, to accomplish that. People go through one impulse, and work on it all through their lives to accomplish it. Creative people go through that phase, for every little story they write, or every song they create, or every vision they capture, and so on. It’s derogatory, and shallow, to claim a creative person is either lazy, or has lost touch with reality. It’s relatively simple to understand - Every person has a unique, lateral view and perspective, on everything, we’re the ones who work on those views and perspectives, and try to project our idea, exactly as it’s played in our heads. It’s the breaking of that final barrier between condescension and personal rationalism. Since the world is concerned more on selfish needs and grandiose fascinations with power, rather than fulfilling themselves by figuring themselves out, let’s just say this may appear as bland, or narrow, or unenlightened as your imaginations are. This is the only real soul human beings are capable of, if this message is ever understood. If it isn’t, just toss this onto the pile of accumulated ignorance, like every other idea that’s clear and simple has been, since the dawn of time.

Just a thought. //

2 comments:

  1. Here are two poems that respond:

    Artistry – A Gift To Give

    Hidden in the depths of every artist’s soul
    Lies the jewel of expression latent within
    Selflessly committing angst to creation’s gain
    Offered humbly for consumption as strangers want
    If not only to gain purchase of its temporary relief

    Turmoil and turbulence regardless of its source
    Fuels the imagination; not for want of adulation
    But to expel its influence that tarnishes and pains
    To unbind the shackles that anchors the soul
    Setting it free to rejoin the ether of its source

    Emotion in all its forms made real to the senses
    Rendered by splashes of color, texture and grit
    Words contrived into realities not yet lived
    Challenged by times relentless passing
    Looking always, this gift of artistry, to give.

    And..

    Why I Write?

    To mark my passage
    I secrete a verbal trail
    The essence is of my being
    With message not hard for the seeing

    Inspiration is not mine given
    More to truth
    From all that is liven
    From faces of strangers
    To lives observed
    Often taking the path to the absurd

    The challenge is not for the word
    But to garner attention –
    To observance – rather then be heard

    So my dilemma
    With lack of public domain
    My flaunt is not for attention
    Nor Fame
    It is truth to be expelled
    Saved from my going insane.

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