Deliverance

[Taliana]

This is a performance piece i wrote... not poetry, but meant to be performed for an audience... i thought it would be nice here instead of visual/performing arts because its my writing (hence why therre is direction in the brackets...to guide the reader)
I wrote it during a period of uni that i had thousands of things due at the time and this was for a performance writing subject so i thought the idea of deliverance was interesting.
Deliverance:
To deliver, is to succeed.
To take heed......of the things you've done,
to take heed of the things you haven't.
(pause)
(spoken quickly) To deliver, to run, to get things done. (normal pace)
Its never.....much fun.
As to deliver, is never to win.
Don't let it hinder thought,
cuz to deliver will twist and turn and burn all sorts.
Creative energy (spoken with lots of energy, almost screaming) lost,
when made to deliver.
Creative energy lost, when made to deliver.
DEADLINES (scream) hinder (whisper), DEADLINES (scream) sinder(whisper).
Burrrrn. (drag out this word) Creative energy.
To deliver, to sink, to think, (crescendo in voice, as if choking and getting louder)
(monotone voice) to conform to deadlines.
Never. (pause) Make headlines.
It must be done, its never fun.
To deliver, deliver, deliver. (fade out of voice)
(spoken quickly) From A to B, you never see, the in between.
To regurgitate, to alleviate. (pause)
The pain. Of deliverance.

 

[harraser]

Tali this is FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!! (and before WOOD starts complaining , yes that word is overused here sometimes but in this case its totally justified!)
the way you used the pauses and screams etc gave it such a power, that i dont usually get when i read someones writing, that i actually started saying it outloud in the way you wrote it! Im jsut not used to reading peoms in that way, it really adds a lot of strength and feeling to a peice of writing!
thanks for this Tali, I loved it!!!!

 

[frostyangel]

Tali this is FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!! (and before WOOD starts complaining ,
^^^^^^^^haaaaaaa, I remember that~ (He was just showing his love for the frostyangel )
This was incredible. Nice work!

 

[Taliana]

Harrasser- thanx a lot for those words of praise, it means a lot coming from you, i sit in awe when i read your poetry and stories.
I handed that in at uni and got a credit... not that great but hey its above average right.
And with this piece... its all about the way its read out, which is why it needs so much direction. But yeh, everyone can relate to it in a way, as we all need to deliver at certain times in life!