Issue 10.1 Fall 2014

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Artist Statement:

Daniel Cavi is a senior Arts Technology major at ISU. He has been studying the art of songwriting for about three and a half years, and has recently, under the influence of writers such as Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe, begun to write poetry utilizing many of the techniques that he uses in writing songs. Cavi’s background in songwriting is apparent in his poetic work, which tends to be very fluid and simple, making strong use of simile and metaphor in an attempt to reveal new aspects of seemingly simple objects and ideas, and also to simplify complex ideas and situations. The most obvious difference between Cavi’s songs and poems lies in his attitude regarding composition as a vehicle for his message; his poems tend to be more adventurous in their use of rhyme scheme and stanza length, while his songs normally adhere to the structure of the music that they’ve been composed along with.

 

Moonbeams

 

Daniel Cavi

 

 

Does the moon get bored in its orbit,
Falling on and on?
It must, I think-
Vicariously living,
Dropping its beams on the best of us,
The most stable of us,
Just to watch us run.

Laughing at the things we do,
When we think we’re clever, beginning anew, 
But we’re just sand in water
Being stirred all around,
And in time we’ll settle
Back to the ground,

Until the beams keep falling, and we keep running,
Just because our safety’s boring,
Or are we scared of who the light
Will paint us to be if it hits us right,
Should it catch up?

And with it come the thoughts and feelings
We’d tried so hard to hide,
An appetite unsatisfied,
For glory and for reckless pride,

And so begins the daily hunt
For lions in the field,
In times we want to get away,
Really need to get away.

 

 

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