The Victoria Spoken Word Festival takes place this week and I’m doing some volunteer driving, picking up out-of-town poets at the airport and the ferry and driving them to where they need to go. I mentioned this to a friend of mine and they asked if I would be writing them welcome poems. I hadn’t thought of it before but decided to do just that. I made signs for each one, using paper plates, with the poet’s name on one side and one of the poems on the other. Most of the festival takes place at the Intrepid Theatre here in Victoria. I was little unsure about how they’d be received but the response has been very good, from everyone involved in the festival.
Word Dancer
Word dancer take flight
Grand jete across the stage
Or tango close to explicit
We will follow your lead
Intrepidly
Speak
The power of words isn’t fully realized
Until you breathe life into them
Static page bound words are nailed in place
Speak them to set them free
Between
Between fear and fearlessness
Are universes of untold stories
In the margins between dark and light
Consciousness carves a trail
Paper Boats
Float words like paper boats
Made from yesterday’s newspaper
Stories that carried marvelwords carried away
Gutterbound into a new memory
David Trudel © 2013
