Hold
On!
for Kae Tempest who inspired this Spokenword poem
Alone in my
room I choke back tears
for the weeping
world the sleeping world
the impoverished
the sick the insane
I think of old
debts the light years gone by
my memory down the drain
I used to hang
with hobos on park benches
ride the trains
with strangers through the
trenches--
listen to their stories
in the rain
So sorry I’d
say with a lump in my throat
while I wracked my brain
for a solution
I prayed for evolution
restitution
a revelation for
the homeless the disillusioned
the ones whom only God could
understand
Take my hand--I’d say--and let
me hold you
Let me comfort and console
you--
the brokenhearted the
ones with whom love parted
the
forgotten the absurd the unheard
Lord only
knows I could have done much more
Then a voice which haunts me
still
whispered these words
Forget the could have would
have should have might have beens
the thousand and one excuses
wearing thin
The promise of Heaven on
Earth of Sun and Moon
was never hollow
Remember who you are
a shining Miracle a star
Just do your best
and all the rest will follow
With every breath
with every sigh
the living
dead the dying in my head the unsaid
filters through this thin
disguise the white lies
the borders beyond the cosmos
of your eyes
realizing the
music unspoken between us
cannot be broken
The mark of your genius
something inside you was
meaning to
stir a beautiful
mind the purr of the sublime
the Divine in you
that shine Shine SHINEs !!!
The kinder kind was never
defined
by subtraction division
derision
or resting on their behind
There’s something in the
air
something rare
like hope like I care
you can feel it
You can peel it off of every
wall
see it rise and fall
spin it on the tip of your
tongue
if you dare to
catch it as it flies
share it watch it multiply
Everything in space
the human race hummmms in the thick of it
Some of us too quick with
it lose it abuse it refuse it
Others just plain sick of it
drown in the ocean of
emotion
Call it what you will
it will change
you rearrange you
Energy synergy poetry
The acrobatics of that
can snap you to attention
the tension intention invention
the stunt of syllables
the pull of gravity
See my hand shake
hear my voice quake
Let it sail let it
sing
This moment is Everything!
Mystery comes
unveiled leaves a trail
Why not travel
take a chance come unravelled
Let’s be danced
like the stars
Plummet like a
me-te-or
Feel the heat of the flame
or the beat on the street
or
plant your feet on the summit
of defeat
No blame
Why take a back
seat
to the wide screen Cinema
Paradiso
Why am I are you are we
so
afraid of flying
of living of dying
of anticipation expectation
deflation elation
Be in the air Be
Fred Astaire
Bo Jangles
Baudelaire
Come live your immortality
You’re not some poor relation
you’re a sensational
spokenword vibrational
a Child of the Creational !
There’s something you can’t
hide
in here out
there inside
touches
me heals me
knows what is real
what is true
can’t sit
down or stand still
Everything in motion is a
movie
is a spoof
is living proof is through the roof
the sky the
planets the
ocean ‘
The notion that we live we
give forgive only to die
with fame instead of honour and
devotion
is a celebrity game And
so much locomotion
Stop going through the motions
Stay real Stay humble
(just please don’t mumble)
Those who stay with what they
know
have nothing to show for it
Give up the
ghost and go for it !
Feel the loss the
pain the gain of your soul for it
If you find yourself
rejected be the metaphor resurrected
Move on move
out and through the insanity
Sense all your
senses transcend ex-per-i-ences
Be the sequential
your essential reverential potential
Move on from fear to
love what was I thinking of?
Share your
light a blessed blessing
a transformation a
dance formation a
holy incantation
Pay it
forward Be sublime! Let it SHINE!
Take my hand and let me hold
you
Let me comfort and console you
tell you all the things I never did before--
the ones with whom I’ve parted
the brokenhearted the
forgotten the absurd the unheard
God only knows I might have
done much more
Then a voice which haunts me
still whispers these words
Forget the could have would
have should have might-have-beens
the thousand and one excuses
wearing thin
The promise of
Heaven of Sun and Moon
was never hollow
Remember who you are--
a shining
Miracle a star!
Just do your
best and all the rest will follow
You be
Day I’’ll be Night
we'll turn darkness to
light
Hold on! Hold on tight!
We’re movin on !
You be Day I’ll be
NIght
we’ll turn darkness to light
Hold on! Hold on tight!
we’re movin on!
You be Day I’ll be
Night
we’ll turn darkness to
light
Hold on! Hold on tight!
we’re movin movin
on
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko was first introduced on the BBC and to the literary world by the legendary James Meary Tambimuttu of Poetry London–-publisher of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller and Bob Dylan, to name a few. his death, it was his friend, the late great Kathleen Raine, who took an interest in her writing and encouraged her to publish.
A nominee for the Pushcart Prize and a former San Francisco Poetry Slam Champion, she is widely published. Her work has appeared in (among others) XXI Century World Literature (which she represents France) and Maintenant : Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
She is the recipient of two grants: one from
Poets in Need, of which Michael (100 Thousand Poets for Change) Rothenberg is a
co-founder; the second—the 2018 Generosity Award bestowed on her by Kathleen
Spivack and Joseph Murray for her outstanding service to international writers
through SpokenWord Paris where she is Writer/ Poet in Residence. Her
collected poems On the Way to Invisible is forthcoming in
2023.
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