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Saffron Poet

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About Me


An all Round Free Thinking and Acting Individual, who uses words and music to convey and portray his view of what he feels, see's and experiences in this journey/path we call 'Life'
By combining traditional poetry alongside lyricism, he creates pieces of art, which are both versatile and unique yet clearly differentiate themselves and escape the typical categorisation into any specific genre or style of music or sound.
Having two alias names, he concentrates on music with one name (Lion Rai) and traditional means of poetry and literature with the other name (Saffron Poet.) This helps him to clearly target his audience regarding the two similar but different art forms and allows likeminded individuals to make the choice of looking deeper into what Lion Rai or Saffron Poet has to offer the world of creativity.
He has just completed a Poetry Book available online and soon to be in print, which is funded by himself and is subjected on the Sikh festival of ‘Vaisakhi.’ Explaining what the festival is and can help western born youth and also members of all worldwide faiths, understand Sikhism a bit deeper, so we can all appreciate and interact with each others faiths and ways of life effectively.
Also a graduate Creative Designer, he combines all of his creativity to create works of art, which like-minded audiences can appreciate, and share a smile to.
On his journey of creativity, he has entered and been successful on many lyricist and literature based competitions, including ‘Westwords Asian Lyrics Live’ and just recently won a mentoring scheme competition called ‘Flight’ held by the well known London ‘Spread The Word’ literature development association.
He also partakes in various mix audience poetry and open mic events and has previously been guest invited to speak at The Main London Events of:
‘Love Poetry Hate Racism’ held at Whitechapel and
‘The London Anti-Gun Crime Event’ held at Kings Cross earlier this year.
Being an active member of the online community of ‘myspace.com’ he has made some great friends all over the world, and by reading the comments you can see clearly how people have reacted to his words, sound and whole feel/vibe.
www.myspace.com/lionrai
www.myspace.com/saffronpoet

My Interests

Truth, Reality, One

I'd like to meet:

All Brothers and Sisters who enjoy Spoken Word and Traditional Poetry about This Beautiful Journey called Life

Music:

Life is Poetry, Poetry is Music, Music is Life

Books:

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My Blog

Vaisakhi Poetry

Vaisakhi Poetry Book by Gurpreet Singh Rai aka Saffron PoetCopyright © 2007 Gurpreet Singh Rai All material in this blog has been fully protected and copyrighted.   All rights reserved with the a...
Posted by Saffron Poet on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:23:00 PST

Lyrics for 'Who Am I' By Lion Rai and Alex Wild

This piece has been created in memory of those millions of Panjabi's, who lost their lives and were displaced from their land during the 1947: India and Pakistan Partition. This year ma...
Posted by Saffron Poet on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:21:00 PST

The Month of June: Great Sikh Sacrifices

Operation Bluestar 1984 1984&my eyes are sore, bodies on the floor, I got to let off a poetic roar! 1984&For me this was a time of pain, It messed with my mind, my soul, and my whole mainframe, 1984&...
Posted by Saffron Poet on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:48:00 PST

The Virginia Tech Incident

My Friends 1 gunman, too many dead! Many hearts, have today bled, Today 32 and still counting, brothers and sisters, Are laying in heavens bed, Through my words, a tear I shed! Words like this, c...
Posted by Saffron Poet on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:22:00 PST