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Blue Lines Blog – Best Of 2011 – Words Poem Project – “Automatic Devotion Redemption Masterpiece”

31 Saturday Dec 2011

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“…he smiled at how two reckless kids whose paths kept crashing into each other, and other things after that too, had put together something beautiful…”

I was able to write more material than I had in quite some years during 2011. Though the focus is Blue Lines, it was a welcome and needed break from the editing process. I period that mixed both muse inspired writing and free writing on subjects that ranged from the past, to myself.
“Automatic, Devotion, Redemption, Masterpiece,” is a work that over four parts utilized the short story, and different types of poetry, to tell the story of young couple in works that are based on words supplied by friends on facebook. I wrote each piece of the story serial style that describes the evolution of their relationship over time, and during different periods.
“Automatic” is the first piece that begins with a change in their relationship, written as a simple straight forward short story.
“Devotion” is my favorite piece. This piece of prose written to sound as if it begins directly after “Automatic,” utilizing elements that are meant sound similar to the opening story. It is two poems weaved around each other to tell the story through two different voices, to culminate to a story eventually answers questions left in “Automatic.”
“Redemption,” continues their story utilizing a fragmented short story initially told from their different vantage points. It occurs much closer in time to “Devotion,” than the first two pieces. It answers some questions that the poem “Devotion,” could not explain.
“Masterpiece,” is a story, that I feel the picture in my head was not fully realized in the end result. It maintains the essential elements that I wanted to convey. Again, a short story that tricks the reader in to believing they are witnessing an event, that is actually something much different. In “Masterpiece,” the names of the characters are revealed.

“Automatic”

Walking through the threshold, he vaguely remembered the house. Something had led him to board the flight and fly to his hometown, and aimlessly return to his childhood home. The woman allowed him into her home, though slightly wary of this stranger. Gone were the trees hiding the house from the street. The kitchen had been renovated, and the wall that separated it from the dining room that ran the expanse on the entry floor, was removed to allow for a modern update with stainless steel appliances and tile walls. Wood floors replaced the linoleum that greeted at the entrance, during his childhood.
“You used to live here son,” she asked trying to look into his weary eyes. A slight pain was evident in his eyes, yet she noticed a calm that settled him.
“Yes,” he answered. “The kitchen was half this size,” he admitted as he waved off her offer of a drink. He did not know what brought him back to this house that he had not visited in over the 20 years since they had moved away. Glancing toward the den, he recognized the floor to ceiling windows as they still looked out to familiar trees and Lake Lucerne. He grimaced remembering the adventure he and his friends would have running through the woods surrounding his home. He remembered the cold winter day that they took old wood planks that they had found and wrapping them with grocery bags thought they could create a floating raft. Within seconds the sinking at the crest of the lake proved them wrong. Continue reading →

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Music I Like – Samuel Christian feat Mos Def – “You [Feel Good Remix]”

30 Friday Dec 2011

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Black and White, Blue Lines, Key Yemaya Walker, Mos Def, Music I Like, Samuel Christion, You [Feel Good Remix]

A gem I forgot about, popped up in playlist.
“…challenge me to be the man I have to be…”


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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Foto Fridays – 2011 Year In Review – Photos (Smudge and Rainy Canvas) – Prose (“To The Individual” and “Twin”)

30 Friday Dec 2011

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Foto Fridays may have been my most inconsistent post this year, in so far as publishing regularly. At some point this year, it evolved into a photograph with accompanying poetry. Here are my two favorites from this year, in this category.

“To The Individual”
KS 7/11

We sat over coffee,
Your face still radiant as you gazed,
You had a smile I had never seen,
A joy I did not remember,
How did we get here,
…it’s not the touch,
…not the want,
…not the fears…gone,
…not the choice,
It just was,
Your hair waved,
I was at a loss for words,
I smiled and sipped the lukewarm coffee,
Your long elegant fingers pressed forward,
A tattered envelope, frayed by time,
“I kept it,” you confessed,
In my handwriting it began…
…”to the individual who is reading this…”

Twin
K.S. 6/24/11
You were born in my mind,
Twins sharing the same thoughts,
Our era was the same time,
Our likes are the same likes,
Our vices are the same vices,

When I look at my own reflection, I see you…twin…coincidence,

You were cut from my cloth,
Our pattern was drawn up time ago,
From it there were two,
Joined at mind and thought,
With the mold destroyed after we were complete,
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Shell Toe Thursdays – 2011 Shell Toe Of The Year – Superstar II Mickey X

29 Thursday Dec 2011

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The Disney inspired Adidas Superstar II Mickey X, are my Shell Toes of the year. They beat out the Kermit’s by a slim margin, with a Kaws/Original Fake-style design of Disney’s patron character Mickey Mouse’s arms adorn the outer side, with a mean-mugging Mickey on the tongue of the shoe. A welcome addition to Shell Toe Thursdays.
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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays- 2011 Quotable of The Year – Common – “Cloth”

28 Wednesday Dec 2011

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2011 Quotable of The Year, Atlanta, Bears, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, Cloth, Common, Cubs, Ernest Wilson, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Key Yemaya Walker, Lonnie Lynn, Love, MW, No I.D., The Dreamer/The Believer

I took time to transcribe this, but looking at the year in totality, this easily fits (though recent) as my Quotable of the Year 2011.

Common
“Cloth”
We were from different cities on the same block,
Grew up in different circles in the same spot,
Like rain drops, we fall in love, giving our all,
Showing her ring off, like a player at the ball,
I recall,
The walls that I had up,
Attracted to women for things that didn’t matter,
The clow, boom, pop,
The sound of my heart when it dropped,
The night that I met her,
It might be forever,
I hear people saying that they like us together,
I ain’t afraid to gamble,
Life is getting better with you,
I admit, I had issues,
Like ebony or essence,
Your pedigree, your presence,
Is more than clothes can say for you,
When I shop, I gotta spend more than day for you,
I pray for you and us,
That we infuse through lust,
And accrue the trust,
Lets shake off the dust from the cloth
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High School Crush / College Crush / Current Crush – 2011 Year In Review

27 Tuesday Dec 2011

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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Music Mondays – 2011 Year In Review

26 Monday Dec 2011

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Acoustic, After The Storm, Andy Allo, Atlanta, Bears, Beyond Race Magazine, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bon Iver, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, Citizen Cope, Cloth, Common, Cubs, Dreams, Ernest Wilson, Floetry, Florence and The Machine, Foo Fighters, How To Make It In America, I Should Have Known, I'm Sorry Who's Yosi?, Jamie Woon, Justin Vernon, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Late Nights & Early Mornings, Lonnie Lynn, Lost In The Woods, Lost in The World, Love, Marsha Ambrosius, Mumford And Sons, Music Mondays, MW, New York, Night Air, No I.D., Rebekah Jordan, sex, Soundfix Lounge, Stevie Nicks, Strange Love, The Dreamer/The Believer, The Kooks, The Trouble With Fiction, The XX Remix, Theophilus London, Va$htie, Va$htie Kola, Vashtie, Vashtie Kola, Wasting Light, You Got The Love (The XX Remix)






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Cover Sundays – The Weeknd – “Dirty Diana”

25 Sunday Dec 2011

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Bad, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Cover Sundays, D.D., Dirty Diana, Echoes Of Silence, Key Yemaya Walker, Michael Jackson, The Weeknd



The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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What I Learned Sundays in the Year 2011 Year In Review – Alchemy

25 Sunday Dec 2011

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2011, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, Death, family, Georgia, Kat Goduco, LA Dodgers, Los Angeles, Love, Memphis, MW, Myla, New York, Pain, Prince, Sacramento, Tennessee, The Alchemist, What I Learned Sundays, Year In Review

“…he remembered when he had been here…”
Being grounded, and focused on singular goals, one tends to find complacency in familiarity, accepting the same thing as part of their daily routine. Before I continue, I provincially was going to title this post something provincial like California, the California Version, etc. but then realized that in totality, that would devalue the meaning of this entire years’ adventure.

In many ways, this year was a self discovery travelling the circuitous path from something that I had before me as the clock struck 12:01, cigar in tow, texting the world. I had no idea what was in store, the happiness, the heart break, the gains, the loss, the love, the understanding, the maturity, the betrayal, the failure, the success. In 2011, I was able to destroy the template that was placed in front of me, and rebuild something new, take a veritable step out onto a limb, though, not as much as some, but much more than most.

2011 was full of new beginnings, new faces, and a journey to a place I had known. The alchemy of taking the previous version of myself, melting it down, and creating something new and different. Being a planner, I tried to return to my bearings, as I began the first steps of the year.

Once upon a time there was a boy who lived. He saw his story, and then his story was interrupted by a young girl. He knew he loved her when he met her, love at first sight. Funny thing, in a different time, with different sensibilities, different respects, their story did not match the path that he wanted. Young when children knew everything, yet veritably nothing, living and life would have been “missed” at that time.
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New To You Sundays – Pearl Jam – “Let Me Sleep (It’s Christmas Time)”

25 Sunday Dec 2011

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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