As I have mentioned many times one of my favorite forms is the ghazal. I work hard to really express myself through this form and I will be honest and state that I am just a novice in this form. Ironically one of the forms that I actually 'hate' is the sonnet. Maybe because it was the primary form (besides haiku) that was drilled into us in school.
Imagine my suprise when I found out that the Ghazal is probably the progenitor of the Sonnet.
Here's an interview that I did at Originalthoughtmag.com. You know I like language so this is an interview of the Nahuatl language. As a writer language is my tool so the more I learn the more I rock it. Check it out.
Our guest Metztli Tekpatl graduated from UCD wth a BA in International Relations-Social Sciences and another BA in Native American Studies with a minor in Spanish. She has a Masters from Scaramento State in Spnish/Foreign Languges and is currently working on a second Masters in Management at Scaramento State. She is fluent in various languages, Spanish and Nahuatl amongst them.
What is Nahuatl? Nahuatl is a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan, or Nahuan, branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. All Nahuan branch languages are indigenous to Mesoamerica and are spoken by an estimated 1.5 million Nahua people, most of whom live in Central Mexico. It is the Indigneous language of modern day Mexico.
Uto-Aztecan (also Uto-Aztekan) is a Native American language family. It is one of the largest (both in geographical extension and number of languages) and most well-established linguistic families of the Americas. Uto-Aztecan languages are found from the Great Basin of the Western United States (Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona), through western, central and southern Mexico (incl. Sonora, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Durango, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz, Morelos, Estado de México, and the Federal District), and into parts of Central America (Pipil in El Salvador; extinct varieties in Guatemala and Honduras). Utah is named after the indigenous Uto-Aztecan Ute people. Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and its modern relatives are part of the Uto-Aztecan family.
Metztli Takpatl will be sharing with us her insight int the Nahuatl language dealing with such topics as
*It being the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire *Its place in modern day Mexico *How is it distinct amongst word languages *The relationship of language to a people's liberation
word The word made Fresh Aromatic B-boy stance in the beginning slang B prismatic, fractured light post up flesh word clammy, tingles under fizzing bulbs flesh wound cement carpets nicks from bricks gangs giving up Stygian sting clips zip guns, blades that switch step in shelled shoes with obese laces kangol hats primped and creased inundate late night streets with James Brown beats
Pretty Bronx eyes Play (Black)Spades cause (Black)Spades to play Yes I can dig (dug) it all in together as we wreck rec rooms statuesque speakers speak beat (streets) sound of my feet back room dusty crate greets as we liberate a deluge of vinyl during summer heat
Pretty Bronx Eyes you keep holding on to thoughts of rejection pretty bronx/river eyes belay streams (baby got) back alleys spew your aura's extrospection whole world wants to be down go down on you
Pretty Bronx Eyes media rock frenzy extraction scratches only surface spitting pop(ular) music perversions seeks only to take notice of your clothes their eyes closed to your creative contours, soft shimmer in your skin they don't notice your eyes i see them Pretty Bronx Eyes in them I see me
No, I haven't crossed the golden line where 100% of my income is from totally writing influenced jobs yet I can see it clearly. There are many options out there for you to make your passion your profit.
Freelance writing: Have to be on your grind and check sites on the daily (I have a few below for ya). It can be anything from ghost writing a paper, doing an ad, to copywrite work.
Blogging: If you got skills and fresh blog you can get it sponsored. Get paid per post or per word. You can also link into a revenue share program.
Writing Profession Jobs: Online or hard copy magazines, journals or periodicals. Become a contributing writer, editor, copywriter, etc
Publish your work: Grind and produce a book. Get it out there. Push it
Work the contest circuit: There are constant poetry, short story and novel contest. Enter them frequently. If you are a good writer you have a greater chance of winning them rather than Powerball.
Those are just off the dome. Yet what they all involve is you writing frequently to perfect your craft.
On the real. Those who knowledge me realize that the last couple of weeks has been intense. Alot of it though with the sense of amazement I am feeling. Due to alot of factors Perihelion Baby is selling at a ridiculous rate. To give you some idea within the last couple of weeks I have sold over 150 copies! It's like y'all got some fever or something! This has been highly due to the efforts of alot of my alikes who have been slangin' it like a mixtape.
Perihelion isn't until around the Gregorian New Year yet I'm feeling it NOW! Next month I already told you about the book signing on the 28th in New Haven. Two other book signings are in the works in New London and Hartford so keep in tune. And if by some reason you're reading this blog and haven't gotten your copy of Perihelion Baby...shame on you.
So I was chastised about my book. New folks read my poetry and got on me about continuing getting it out there. They explained to me it wasn't so much about profit it was about sharing my creative energies. I agreed. It is a challenge though to balance the manifestation and the marketing/promotion. Yet with their bickering (j/k) I am up and at it again in terms of promoting Perihelion Baby (the right corner dun).
It will be on September 28th at the Cafe 116 in New Haven on Chapel Street from 7pm until. They'll be a DJ there and 1/2 price off of bottles of wine. Plus, you never know, I might have some back up dancers. Keep that date open and get your ass there.
I write poems all of the time. And I have written about a few specific people here and there. Yet I can't really recall of being the inspiration of another's poetry. It's an humbling experience.
Been obsessed with the Baku as of late which is a mythological japanese beast that eats nightmares. Anyway. This collection of hay(na)ku is about the baku.
The art of technological writing deems that one utilize every avenue out there when transcribing. The same way that with my physical journals I utilize different methods in terms of transcribing also carries over when I compose on the net.
Blogger is restrained in that it only has a number of fonts and ink colors/effects available yet when I write stuff for my own usage I use inks of varying hues and shades. I sometimes use the most outrageous fonts and glyphs. I use functions like strikeout, italics, super set, etc. like that are going out of fashion.
One of the reasons that I am obsessed with calligraphy (from ancient to modern) is because physically it makes the word dynamic. It gets it move on. I like my physical words to also have that elements (its the visual artists in me).
My first collection of poetry reflected a different aspect of me, the scholar writer. That's another one of my attributes where I trick out my writings with mad footnotes of esoterica. The upcoming collection will definitely be more in the dynamic sphere.
Yet most of them are in transition because I write grand book novel trilogy stuff. Some people have read some of my novels (yes I've completed more than one). Some people may have read some of my short stories. I like to deal with a whole host of subjects. Ya can't pin me down. For me it just has to be funky.
Here are the top 9 stories that I wrote, am writing or need to be written by C'BS
*A polygyny love story
*A epic fantasy piece whose center character is a child messiah who is accompanied by a baku, a butterfly in a crystal ball, and a qilin
*a man who is taken by his Mexican lover to Mexico where she destroy his passport subtly kidnapping him because he cannot speak Spanish
*a guy who commits suicide by destroying his ego and then slowly rebuilds his identity.
*A man who finds out that he has a son after 5 years and seeks to find him in the foster care system after his mother dies.
*A wuxia-type 52 hand block black kung fu epic
*a man who discovers the Earth is flat
*A group of people who discover secret slavery manuals from the middle passage that describe the 'aliens' that visited the Dogon and esoteric ways to reprogram the nervous system.
*A woman who keeps being thrown into the Indian ghost dance and awaits the return of the buffalo
SYLLABICATION: pan·e·gyr·ic PRONUNCIATION: pn-jrk, -jrk NOUN: 1. A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment. 2. Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium. ETYMOLOGY: Latin pangyricus, from Greek pangurikos (logos), (speech) at a public assembly, panegyric, from panguris, public assembly : pan-, pan- + aguris, assembly, marketplace; see ger- in Appendix I. OTHER FORMS: pane·gyri·cal —ADJECTIVE pane·gyri·cal·ly —ADVERB
As I have mentioned many times one of my favorite forms is the ghazal. I work hard to really express myself through this form and I will be honest and state that I am just a novice in this form. Ironically one of the forms that I actually 'hate' is the sonnet. Maybe because it was the primary form (besides haiku) that was drilled into us in school. 
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