Pain In Side After Sleeping On It

IMAGES OF THE READING OF 17/11/2010

Blueprints Horse Cart

an October evening in Ottawa!

But no! But no! I'm actually born here in Quebec ... I'll explain. Of course I'm already up on stage to play roles, but this time it was totally different because I had to do the reading two of my poems and for the first time in public. I always had the habit of asking the opinion of my writing that 2 or 3 of my friends only ... I never thought would have the courage to stand before an audience for them to share my thoughts, to open my heart, etc ... I felt like I put myself literally naked. Long ago that I had not felt so vulnerable I swear.

So a friend of mine who, after insistence, convinced me to dive. I have long hesitated but then I remembered one of my principles of life is to live each day as if it were the last. I wondered what good write all those texts and poems except to share just a few close friends. So I therefore presented in Ottawa last Saturday, October 30 with heart pounding and my book written under his arm, praying God to give me the strength and courage but also hoping that my words could reach these people that would be moved to come hear me.

Standing behind the microphone first so I recited a poem whose last words are ... just waiting to indulge you!. And then, suddenly, in a spontaneous impulse, I see all these people who get up to applaud. I could not believe my eyes! I saw these people standing to applaud the little girl came to Montreal to open his heart. By their reaction I realized that they also understood me. We were one and the same time I remember thinking that something should change in my life and that their reaction was a sign that I expected but I thanked God for giving me the gift to touch people with my poetry. It was a Saturday evening when the snow fell gently through the streets of the nation's capital ... And during that time within the Orange Gallery was a poet in the world!

Stéphany C