My poetry compilation of 2010  just came out of print. Titled “Calibre 90″ or Caliber 90, the book contains over 50 new poems that challenge conventional poetic aesthetics and take a social angle towards art.

tears of time covered them, angels evaporated and came back as spray

Diffused angels sent thru the Sun went into sunken homes and cities and

furthermore, into the Eastern Rocks

Dilluted into buildings and hearts, pulverized yet imprinted into the crevices

of every heart

The day it rained horizontally. Is yet to start.

Jordhy Ledesma presents,

from the Factory of Passions of the Universe: RAIN

Over the storm and into the desert

where angelical clouds were born

pulverized Goddesses

drops of time and juices of life

were drowning Earth

masking the halted river of swimming angels

Allure and again drops by sea and air

the time of rocks and rain

Angels awaken as plants and life

Rain… that time of the forest

I forsee a time of poetry and freedom

were fountains and minds converge

the swift in scars of solitude dances

merely phantoms

Dark storms. Divine eyes of fortitude fallen in the rivers of your soul

of labyrinths that convey the end, a time without me

and the uncharted, truly saddened by the sweetest of emotions

and then red. Red again.

Rain. It truly rained.

Upon Apple iPad’s release, all my books will be available in the new iPad eBook format, with several additions. The magic that surrounds this device will make it even more successful than the iPod (and that’s me being conservative). Not only will the iPad sell a couple million units in its first year but also will quickly become (as prices fall) Apple’s best selling item.

As a writer, artist and marketer, I’ve been waiting for the iPad for over three years. The launch of this device marks the birth of an industry, namely, that of multi-touch digital consumption devices. Apple spearheads many revolutions of these kind because it is a vertically integrated company and because of their closely controlled ecosystem that is comparatively easy to manage. If the iPad is successful and Microsoft, Sony and HP follow Apple, many a living room will carry these sophisticated reading devices and make the life of every living writer a richer one.

Today, as I prepare for “filming” my  best poetry readings to enrich the reader’s experience in the iPad,  Apple changes the game for comic books, poetry books, magazines and newspapers. The iPad will change the life of the writer and the reader. However, there are somethings this machine will not change, and for good reason.

First, the iPad is mainly a consumption device. It will not change the way you produce content. Neither will it alter the way you browse the web or make your phone calls. This device is not intended for collaboration (as of version 1.0), but for simple and quick media consumption. Second, this new device will fail as a business tool. Simply because Apple is not interested in that market. But, companies such as Microsoft, HP and Acer should be swift in conquering the business niche once the iPad creates a demanding fan base among professionals.

And finally,  Lulu’s, Scribd’s and Amazon Kindle’s business models will be tremendously impacted by this launch. It is only a matter of time before we see instant book publication solely to the iBookstore.

Had Apple unveiled an “iPad-Light”, a $99 USD-pad, its stock price would have doubled in a matter of hours. This world needs smart-multitouch-consumption devices and nobody (aside from Apple and Microsoft) seems to get it. Notwithstanding, the market for such devices is so huge, that it merits the participation of  some “true giants”. Think of General Electric and “smart-walls”, IBM and “business-pads” and Ikea selling “disposable-tablets”.

We need a new computer for casual tasks because the PC is obsolete, expensive, complex, hard-to-support, cumbersome, unintuitive and generally a “digital overkill” for anything other than intensive computation. Twenty years ago, Oracle and Sun tried to pioneer this segment with the so called “Net-computer”, they failed. And Apple, for all its effort, will only but spark the true revolution that we need. As the Mac sparked the personal computing revolution, so will the iPad start the casual-computing revolution.

Writers and poets of the world, stay tuned, we’ll need new letters to write in these new pages. I recommend you also read: iPad use cases,the Arc of Computing and the iPad’s Future.

Sail away to a place in which you’ll wonder if reality has left

fly away stealing your eyes from everything seen

after ten thousand lights into the west

of many branches colored gold and green

until you see a couple of strings, of asteroids a nest that is,

though is hard seeing his feet, even with our technology

His blue lips, made of quick moving gems next to an ever

shining sun that decors his face like drawings on ladies nails.

Compared to him, we are like parasites. Strange he is

yet simple and open like a poem’s first draft he is.

Gurus of this land pray that pillars covering

his face, control the length of the universe.

Stop there, and look into that maze, realize you may

that planet Earth is a scar in his face that still bleeds today

Lost is the man, when buying stuff or making things

never looking within that maze of his

sailing away from the Universal God.

his mother urged to hide quickly

before drunken Johnnie saw him

but drunken eyes see twice

“As I say shall you do and arrive

discipline starts by respecting time!”

shouted Johnnie to the small man

John didn’t cry tears but feelings:

“How can I trust an old drunken man?

Dad I won’t call you, like you want me to

that’s some discipline for you Johnnie man!”

30 tears covered this sunken home, one cried every

Christmas night he named “Drunken Johnnie” his sober Dad

Today, I still maintain my word, never to stop calling you son

because my drunken words were sincere and true

every time I sprayed alcohol saying “I love you”

My dead adopted John was the water of this home

yet alcohol sunk my life for the lack of a natural son.