Poetry Please - Just Beneath the Surface - Scuba Diving Video and Spoken Word Poetry
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wonderful poem and imagery great work 💯🐒
Thanks mate. It means a lot that people might enjoy this one as I just went the pub after.... 5 hours of video editing to create this 😂
Ha ha, needed a pint.
The poem took less time to write lol
I'm really into trying to merge different content types on dtube. I'll definitely be doing more creative poetry reading video edits like this. Cheers for checking it out 🙂
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Yer its working nice to see something different. I am getting inspired to put some poetry on, just not sure in what format. Might read it on my jibcast or maybe typed. But I don't feel typed gives as much passion, we'll see 💯🐒
Love the poem and love the way you relate your writing with the video. Deep thought ..also came to know about your poetry life. Inspiring..Thanks for sharing .
Thanks @priyanarc I'm so glad you enjoyed the poem, it's something I have done many times in real life, reading my poetry at performance nights.
It was something I wanted to do on steem for a long time, finding a new way to express poetry and I think dtube is perfect. Now I'm full of ideas of how to make more of these visual poetry readings for more of my poems... I have literally hundreds of them. A few have been published in literary anthologies but most have yet to see a wider audience.
Thanks for your comment x
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The beautiful scenarios you created is an imaginative boost, it kept me looming over how you'd end the poem and my goodness I was sweetly taken away, it's one of the most beautiful piece I've ever watched here maybe one day we get to collaborate
Thanks Jose. Your words mean a lot to me and I'm definitely up for a poetry collaboration at some point soon mate.
Most of my scuba diving inspired poems are quite dreamy and strongly narrative like this one. I am not religious at all, but the place I come closest to having some type of religious/spiritual experience is out in nature and particularly while diving.
As to the ending, I'm glad it worked. I was trying to infuse the ending with the excitement and apprehension of a scuba shark encounter. This poem was written about a real encounter with an oceanic whitetip shark in Egypt. It was one of the most amazing dives I've every done. Most scuba divers actively seek out encounters with sharks and other large ocean creatures that are so majestic. It sounds a little insane to none diving folk... but there are ways to keep those encounters safe to do with understanding shark psychology. When we met the whitetip for example, we all got in a circle back to back and made sure to allways keep the shark to our side and try to avoid letting it directly underneath us. It was a really exhilarating, and yes I admit, slightly scary, experience 😉
What can I say lol it's more than exhilarating because I haven't been a diver in the past lol so the experience with the whitetip seems strange to me, but the fact that you created a familiar setting with your experience in this poem is an absolute beauty.
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