Collage: Block Party

 

"Block Party" - digital collage by douglas brent smith

30 December 2021

Collage: Table of Desires

Table of Desires - collage by douglas brent smith

29 December 2021

Collage: She'll Give It Some Thought

 

"She'll Give It Some Thought" collage by doug smith

28 December 2021

Collage: Valley Adventure

 

Valley Adventure, Collage by doug smith

28 December 2021

another unbroken line

the unbroken line steers

thru you unaffected unphased

sense of purpose

                           denied

on purpose

                  over and over

again: you dream of something

meaningful, light not (yet) focused

covering you which is to say

       uncovering you

layer after layer

          the sounds like velcro

          unclothing disrobing

          revealing

hey is that you? is that the you

you wanted to reveal?

                                     or,

does that you, catch you, as

     much by surprise as

the rest of us?

douglas brent smith

Cheap Kong Demos

 

Music demos from my first musical "Cheap Kong" on Soundcloud

And here is the script to Cheap Kong.

Treasure Island, Episode 3 of 3

 

Treasure Island, Episode 2 of 3

 

Treasure Island, Episode 1 of 3

 I had the delight of participating in this Zoom production of Treasure Island. Here is Episode 1 of 3:

Tradition?

 

The trouble with revolution is breaking things. The problem with ignoring tradition is that you forget what got you here, and what has mattered before.

Certainly, we don't need to follow tradition without question.

We also don't need to overplay our hand. Nuance is an art. Inspiration is an art. Balance...well, you know...it's an art.

-- doug smith

Poem: either / or

we do not always (read: seldom) have

choices or

            opportunities to call

chances for how

            the outcome arrives

alive in expectations we 

    genuflect gyrations to

promises unkept and either swept or

    wept away

you swept me off my feed all

    enthusiastic and smiling (a smile that

    feels endless) ending

spending our hearts ration of 

    rational being

beating so out of tempo either

        two hundred beats per minute

or paused to a stop       

 

--- douglas brent smith

New album: Garden of Change