by D'nelle | Sep 14, 2015 | the one with poetry & writing
As the artist set up his loops layering beats onto vocals creating his own backup being his own best friend and his own whipping boy — this young boy fresh faced and sheepishly grinning too young to call an artist with a straight face despite the truth of it — as I...
by D'nelle | Jun 25, 2015 | the one with love, the one with poetry & writing
There are days when I can’t shake it, that suspicion that all the world wants is to take things away. Days when only poetry keeps me in balance. Days when even the full, yellow sunshine of our star isn’t enough, when the light disappears and I’m...
by D'nelle | Jun 13, 2014 | the one with poetry & writing
[above: Me, back in the day, flying from my dad to my uncle. That feeling of falling is almost as satisfying as writing, without the anxiety of the “post” button at the end. Although I don’t have to wear diapers now… so I’ve got that...
by D'nelle | Dec 17, 2010 | the one with love, the one with poetry & writing
No one writes love poems anymore. I mean, tonight I’m texting you emoticons while I drive frantically from one job to another. I’m not chewing thoughtfully on a quill, my inkstained fingers scratching out, rewriting, perfecting couplets by lamplight....
by D'nelle | Dec 3, 2010 | the one with poetry & writing
I never traveled far afield like Jennifer did that one time in college so theres no real frame of reference for the news. Pompeii collapsed this morning nothing but dust now. No, really, it means it this time, no teasing remnant of life no ghostly petrifications just...
by D'nelle | Nov 12, 2010 | the one with love, the one with poetry & writing
As Halloween passed and fall fell You left me again for some far city maybe emerald or steel or some other heady, glinting promise energy lofting skyward the dreams of man progress and potential. You left and I unpacked my lamentations to keep me company. Here in my...
