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Sarah's poems are beautiful but Phil's are moving. But together, they are magic.

I am currently falling in love with these two over and over again.

Fell in love with Sarah's poems when I first watched her TED talk and she opened it with "B" and ended it with "Hiroshima". I was wide eyed and giddy while listening to B, heart strings and my soul was tugged with Hiroshima.

Fell in love with Phil Kaye in "An Origin Story" (co-written/presented with Sarah) that poem is just mind blowing and it hits some chords home. I know someone who is quite identical to me, knows his existence, he knows mine but we haven't met yet. After all this time, after all the circumstances, etc. etc.

I've downloaded most of Sarah's poems in my itouch and watched them over and over and over again. Most especially "Postcards" and "A Love Letter: Toothbrush to Bicycle Tire". Postcards because of
"I've already fallen in love with far too many postage stamps. When you appeared on my doorstep wearing nothing but a postcard promise." and "There's a girl who still writes you, she doesn't know how not to.".

And Toothbrush to Bicycle Tire mind blows! It is mind boggling. The more I ponder about that poem the more amazed I am with Sarah. That poem is so amazing, so hard to even recreate it. Anything else feels lame. I sat through one commute home thinking of two inanimate objects I can make a love letter out of and it was just so hard. Pondering on the possibilities, without falling too much on the pattern of Sarah's. I have finally decided on Fork to (Power) Socket. The words lacing together inside my head makes me tingle with life and anticipation. :D

Then there's "When Love Arrives" performed by Sarah and Phil just recently uploaded in youtube.
And I so freakingly loved it. I transcribed it. Because the lyrics weren't still available yesterday. That's how much I love it.

"Love is not who you were expecting. Love is not what you can predict."
"Maybe love is not ready for you. Maybe you are not ready for Love."
"Maybe love stays. Maybe love can't. Maybe love shouldn't."
"Loves arrives exactly when love is supposed to. And love leaves exactly when love must."

Then I started downloading Phil's poems. And was moved by "Repetition". How when you repeat words over and over and over again, they lose their meaning. "You watch a sunset too often, it just becomes 6 PM. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up, one day you'll forget why."
And then there's "Teeth". Phil talks Japanese! O.O amazed! :D Anywho, he has a rich family background, torned and all but to tell your lineage the way he tells his in "Teeth" is amazing. His words are imperfect, moving, beautiful and deep. It talks to my soul. :D

I have this terrible terrible urge to memorize their poems. Whenever I can, I repeat their words inside my head. And just let my own words flow and get lost with theirs.

I thank Sarah and Phil Kay(e) even if they won't ever know. And I thank the Universe for bringing them my way.

**All of the mentioned poems can be found on youtube. I am sorry, too lazy to put links here. And the constraints being imposed here in the office makes it more hard...:))