perpetual gestation... everything must change!

this is for all of the people who have blessed me by listening to/reading my poetry and telling me that i should write a book.
i began writing poetry as a catharsis, a way of sorting out the tidal waves of emotion caused by the ending of a seven year relationship with an exceptional woman [although i took her for granted throughout the relationship]. i was just trying to keep my head above the waves, the idea of writing a book of poetry never occurred to me.
i think it was on my birthday in '2000'... my sister-in-law [at the time], and my nephew took me to a local open mic venue, we watched a poetry slam, although tempted to share some of my words i resisted the urge to get on the stage. this shyness lasted one week, the next week i was on the stage, doing pretty damn good if i say so myself.
it seemed that my hard-knock luv lessons had given me a little insight into this whole... luv thang, people were really feeling my words, and in sharing i was opening myself to energies that were transforming me. as i was transforming emotional, mental, and physical impressions into poetry... the poetry was transforming me into a more luving individual. poetry and i became the... by-products of each other.
now... it's roughly five years later and if i had five dollars for every time someone asked me if i had a book or CD for sale... i could buy that convertible mini-cooper that makes me drool when i see it... lol.
maybe blogging will allow me to finally put the book together... hmmmmm.
is it possible that a book will be born from this perpetual gestation?

Radiant BE'IN! a personal practice of Right Livelihood by Olusanya Bey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.