the poets gospel.. Do Not come lightly to the page

so i guess i take this writing thing mad light.. Have for awhile even when i knew in my HS creative writing class.. that I was different.
Different how? in that the concepts were easy to me.. I could write sonnets and verse in a matter of seconds. The words flow from me... As effortless as the music flows from my favorite vocalist.. Namely Jon bibbs and Jamela Bullock and Polk..
They are music.. it's them.. they breathe and talk and music flows out of them... with no effort..
That is how writing is for me.. And i take advantage of it. Like the singer.. I can't tell you how to write.. not like i do.. Mine is more like transcription...
Their singing is more like pouring liquid out of a vessel..

So writing.. is who i am.. i suppose. And perhaps this is a concept i need to accept.. Especially when people keep coming up to me.. telling me how my words have affected them.
Especially when I'm hosting THE MIND SET and people keep calling asking me to perform..
Perhaps.. But i think i am starting to come to grips with this.. Starting to understand this.. Starting to live it.

on that note. copying my co-host naz's bad friday work habits.. i'm reading journals on line. .knowing mine is void of all the good stuff that's been happening lately.. like the tv show, the growth from heartbreak, the growth from loving me and feeling free, the start of my poetry book and soon hopefully this weekend completion. the meeting of new friends and the hearing of looooooong stories. Life is pretty good.
lunch with simone at Panera.. and if there is a panera in your area.. you need to go and have a half and half.. Half sandwich and half soup (my fav onion) and enjoy yourself...

But i'm reading Roger Bonair-Agard's journal.. and i'm tripping cuz he's speaking the poets gospel especially in reference to the performance of said poems.. on his NOV 5. entry.. and here goes.. i quote.. i need to read this again.

"there are a couple of things to pay attention to. they should be abvious but aren't always. feed off
other performers. Celena Glenn's poems on monday made me want to be there, made me glad to be an artist
and re-affirmed my belief in the power and importance of what we do when we make art. in this atmosphere,
the people you're performing with are allies (EVEN WHEN IT"S A SLAM) and you go to the poem, to the stage,
because you love them too. Nikkey Finney told us at Cave Canem this past summer "Do not come lightly to the page".
carry this attituden over to your preparation for the stage as well. this chanting we do, this spirit calling
is dangerous, important work. this is why prayers and invocations in every religion in the world are meant
to be said out loud. the vibrations are important. the energy shift that takes place is important.
have fun. enjoy and revel in it certainly but understand your responsibility to your words from the
moment you pen them to the moment you speak them. do not come lightly. the world will not suffer us."

what's funny is i've been reading samantha raheems journal too and she was also at Cave Canem and mentions this phrase.. "Do not come lightly to the page"

i get the message.. ;) now.. back to work