Daniel Kooman – Honourable Mention

Daniel has traveled around the world pursuing his love of film. Dan has worked as a cinematographer and producer on a number of films including The Prison of Mine, The Blind, E for Everyone: The Mouse and the Elephant, Africa Sing Me Your Song, and Though He Crush Me. Recently Daniel has traveled between Canada and Tanzania to produce film and do relief work among AIDs orphans. He is also at work shooting and producing the film In Search of Revival, which will take him to every continent on the globe.

the ground

alive outside of relationship
the journey leads to experience
even the second heaven can limit you
she preferred the grounding of solid earth
the spine tingling shiver of breath
brought in from another being
maybe better than man
maybe purer than woman
maybe greater than god
but azazel would laugh mockingly
at the certainty in the heart
the foolishness of confounded wisdom
if only another would join in the suffering
the truth diluted
inside the laboratory of life
reason
pain
choices
but still one remains