Today is March 3rd, 2023. Finally, De La Soul’s back catalogue has been released on all digital platforms. I’ve been waiting for this moment…I don’t even know how long. I just know that digital streaming felt strange. At least for this hip hop head. I’d go onto Spotify, but I couldn’t stream most of my …
The narratives we tell ourselves are important. Partly because what we tell ourselves is what we’ll live out. There’s no escaping that. But also because we have a tendency to centre ourselves. Which is dangerous. It also means we can hurt others…. Let’s look at love (and sex). Over the years all I’ve ever done …
So, I’m currently summoning up the energy to go through heaps of notes and drafts and ideas for drafts for the blog. There’s a lot I want to say, communicate and share. But this year’s events have thrown me massively off balance. While I do that, to keep the flame burning, I’ve been performing and …
I’ve been part of a poetry reading group set up by a friend of mine I used to work for last year. It’s been great fun sharing a lot of my newest writing with them, and being exposed to poetry in Hindi and Urdu too. We get to choose between reading our own work and …
I’m trying to push myself out of my comfort zone with writing and was challenged in a workshop by this wicked poet, Desree to use an “extended metaphor” in a poem. My understanding of an “extended metaphor’ is taking one metaphor, and running with it for the rest of the poem. You’ll see the metaphor …
I’ve grappled with my relationship with my daughter. I love her unconditionally. However, the first 7 years of my relationship with her are a blur. Mental illness and an unhappy marriage with her mother made it impossible for me to be as mentally present as I wanted to be. Coupled with my own self-esteem issues …
This is the first poem I’m sharing on my blog. I will continue to share current drafts of poems I am working on. Feel free to leave feedback or if things were not clear in the comments. It’s all love. I welcome what you have to say. Here it is: 7 Bar Loop Loop the …
“Love is an act of sacrifice” This is from my favourite poem I’ve written over the past 3 years. It was inspired by the closing lecture given by Robert McKee when I attended his Story seminar in May 2019. This line is poetic. Beautiful. But now I have to put it into practice. I’m sitting …
