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| A Young Poet |
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Dear Nicole Moore, -- Viva Luminarias!
The Remarkable Luminarias, San Antonio Watershed Event, was a great success due to so many disparate factions coming together in a showcase platform of unity and harmony. I heard so many WOWs I thought our city was named WOW! This is also a reflection of the organizing skills of Ramón Vásquez, Santiago García and Victoria García.
I made an opportunity to walk around and savor the various expositions of art exclamation points.
But what I found most intriguing was the WRITER'S BLOCK! Why? Of all the events it was truly the singularly most interactive one! (Bear in mind that I am also a muralist painter).
No one from the audience stepped up to paint with the artists -- or exhibit with the artists or play music with the artists, or...
In contrast, total strangers, locals or visitors who appeared to become large islands in the massive oceans of people, islands held captive and mesmerized by the currents and waves of audio linguistic streams of conscious thought given a voice and gypsy sails to wander in the wind...they could not help but take the mikes and share their own bottled up expressions...!
Thus was poetry kept alive for 6 straight hours in the streets of San Antonio -- a remarkable feat in itself. This was the forum and platform that truly attracted live on-the-spot dialogue of human dynamics -- where the demarcation line between audience and performers became truly blurred. There appeared out of nowhere poets from Seattle (speaking Chinese), from Laredo, from El Paso, from Puerto Rico, from the South Side, from the West Side -- there were poets galore -- and some becoming instant thru the good graces of "Pegasus" group. Most of these "strangers" became instant San Antonio citizens loving Luminarias and adding their voice to the clarion beauty of an all-let-loose Fiesta Night of Art. One even came to hug and kiss me while I was reading poetry. I passed the mike to the excited audience member! The audience, through their cheers and cries of joy, kept encouraging even high school timid audience members to become instant poets -- as several did by sharing written poems of our honored and deceased poets! By the second or third time they shared a poem, their confidence and voice became an exclamation point for San Antonio!
Please express and share this with the hard working super visionaries who have already made high art history as Statesmen and Stateswomen of Esthetics! Viva San Antonio! Viva Luminarias!
Nephtalí De Léon, Poet / Author, Muralist / Painter
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