Poets Off the Shelf - Swiss Cottage Library

Poets Off the Shelf is a new poetry group at Swiss Cottage, that runs bimonthly.  The next open mic is on Thursday 16^th June 2011 at 6.15. 

After a bustling morning of shopping and a visit to the hairdressers, how did I manage to look like I had just walked off a cat walk, meet my friend for a long lunch down the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, and then do a u-turn to get down to the Swiss Cottage Library to do an amazing poetry performance delivery of my works The Shadow and Jealousy?  It’s easy, start keeping a diary!  The secret is to make everything in your diary happen, to live out the life that you want.  Like being a therapist one moment, a syncretic Salsa dancer the next and a poet otherwise.  You see, you can be whomever you want to be, you know.  Some may say it’s all lies, it’s all Object-Relations, Imagery, Mirroring, or even Defences against something!  Well whatever it might be, even if it could be the fear of being lonely, I certainly don’t get much time to invest and give energy to it, I am way too busy.

But let’s not avoid the issue here.  Who really wants to be lonely?  Somehow I think we all want moments to ourselves as opposed to being all alone, but what if on the other hand you are a person that can’t be lonely for one minute, no even a second, so much so that others have to be constantly aware of your presence and your existence, as if they have now become 'things' in your world for play?  That’s right, we are back on the topic of polarities and either extremes of it might not be healthy. So what's the remedy : 'equilibrium', that's right.  Highlighting the importance of encountering an experience of freedom in language, what a lovely expression.

What’s on the agenda for the rest of the week?  A Tango Show, Emotional Freedom Therapy Advanced Practitioner Training (EFT), a recognised therapy, and travelling the length and breadth of London Transport on a day pass, probably standing!  How can you choose to get stressed with problems of 'the other', if you are actually living out your dreams?  So get those diaries out, start planning, write it all down what you are going to achieve each day  and at what time, get excited and take those positive steps to love to live.