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Bradley Morewood tends
to write poetry involving the intermingling of personal
and sociological currents. He uses his experiences and
the people and things around him as a lens to see deeper
trends. It is Brad's intention to contribute insights
into human nature and destiny, and to communicate with
similar minds existing today and who will exist in the
future. Brad believes that the relevant questions and
answers of our time can only be presented by philosophers
with an artistic bent; that art is a neutral yet powerful
tool that can be used to provide positive direction.
Brad was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and currently
resides in Tampa, Florida. He earned a Juris Doctorate
at Stetson Law School in 1980 but does not practice
law. Brad enjoys musical jam sessions in which he extemporaneously
recites poetry to music or spontaneously plays a piano
or guitar.
Brad participated in two poetry tours of St. Petersburg,
Russia between 1994 and 1995 and received a poetry award
from the Writers Union of that city which also published
his work in a bi-lingual edition. He has won various
poetry prizes including the 1996 Russian-American poetry
anthology contest based in St. Petersburg, Florida,
a 1996 Russian-American contest based in St. Petersburg,
Russia; the 1996 Will McLean Best of Florida poetry
contest; the 1998 Beaux Arts competition in St. Petersburg,
Florida; the Xeximian poetry contest of 1998, and has
appeared in various publications.
Brad's poem entitled “Weightless in Their Chariots”
will appear in the Fall 2002 edition of the Dream International
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| At this moment in the fluttering
days of space-time, I would like to say that it
took about four and a half billion Earth-years
for all of the incredible life-forms we know of
to be here. We are surrounded by miracles of life
all the time. Did you know that the biological
abilities to fly have developed independently
several times: bats, birds, insects, archaeopteryx,
etc. did not develop flight from one common flying
ancestor. The same is true of sight. Yet all life
on Earth is from one life form; we all just have
different manifestations. One of the greatest
survival mechanisms that we humans have is inertia
which may be viewed as momentum, yet this mechanism
today is causing a lot of damage to ourselves
and to the other species. Our traditional relationship
with nature has dramatically changed but we don't
really know it yet. I will be happy if viewers
just think about this, but maybe some will do
something constructive. If I were king, I'd launch
a JFK-style project to end the use of petroleum
before 2010. This can be done in my opinion. But
for now, I'm just trying with my thoughts to help
the powerful do a better job. |
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