Magnolia Stellata, from the 'Botticelli Venus Suite of Poems'

[fabiooliveira73]

Wonderful \☺/ Bravissimo!!!

[fogpotion9]

I find the background sound particularly interesting. i agree with the David Lynch connection - yet im seeing you here trying to meld more - movement/word/image - and each time the effort is more interesting and daring. Your voice works well in the scene as do the cuts - excellent work.

[brendaclews]

johnfwalter, I am always in awe of your responses and often don't know how to reply! Hence the many weeks that have passed since you dropped by. What you see in this little attempt humbles me. If a fraction of what you say is conveyed I would have the gratitude of a thousand shining suns.

Many thanks dear, hugs and blessings, Brenda

[caroline108cadenza]

I really enjoyed this - both the words and the performance. Thank you. It seems very 'musical' somehow - the way it weaves and flows. And I agree about the 'Twin Peaks' comment! I came across your piece by searching for 'Performance Poetry' on YouTube. A few days ago I uploaded a video of my own performance poem which is similar to yours in some ways (very different in others!) Please take a look and share it with your poet friends if you like it. Caroline

[johnfwalter]

What is most compelling about this early performance piece is the use of the gestures and movements that are coordinated to both invite the viewer and also dismiss the possibility of union, merging, sharing on a soul level. This is then taken to another level from the general universal to a specific lover, and the triangulation of the speaker, beloved, and the Botticelli mythological imagery of beauty, and at last back to the emptiness of language denuded of signified in the last dance sequence.

[brendaclews]

Dear Boris, thank you... you are so very sweet, always. I don't know "Twin Peaks" but it sounds intriguing & I shall seek the series out. Thanks again for your beautiful comment.

[brendaclews]

Dear Nahnni, thank you... I'm glad you liked it. It's a difficult piece to dramatize as a performance poem and I am getting closer with this version, perhaps. I had to take the 'backdrop' apart because it was just before Christmas and our tree had to go there! I'll be giving it another try soon...

[nahnni]

"We cannot merge...are we in love with each others' absence?" Settles on the soul like a filament, a recognition of an unutterable truth; a whispered confession.

"Imagine the magnolia trees where Venus is born aloft...in a shell blown by the zephyr."  So fluid, ghostly.

The Poetry breathes, like water bubbling from a mystical spring. The visual and sound bring this composition to a state of rebirth.

As aforementioned, a flawless combination.

[bozlich]

hypnotic, Brenda, simply hypnotic, I have been watching it again and again.

you've created a masterpiece: your words and movements combine flawlessly with the music and the colours to produce a very potent whole.

The atmosphere is electric, reminding me of something from "Twin Peaks".

This could well be a scene from it.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Boris