Former beauty queen shows many talents
Kgomotso Molelekeng | Wednesday April 23, 2014 15:01
Not only is she a full time clinical social worker, she has also shown great capabilities as a spoken-word poet, singer and songwriter.
In an interview with Showbiz, Peacock mentioned that she discovered her love for poetry when she used to be a back up vocals and singer for Poetavango, which is a group of poets from Okavango four years ago.
“We were trying to take poetry to another level by mixing it with music for one of our events. At the time our chairman asked me to write and recite poetry.
He said if I could write songs then I could write poetry because I am an artist and naturally I did just that,” she said.
The 30-year-old poet added that she gets inspiration from life circumstances. She said as a clinical social worker she works with different people of different problems each day.
“I have to listen to the human struggle and their pain. I have to help them in a journey back to hope, but mostly help them tell their stories as this is very therapeutic in itself,” she said.
She added that she has somehow become a storyteller and an activist in her poetry because of the things she encounters as a professional, but mostly as a person searching for answers in her own life.
She said: “I can hear a whole poem or song though a dream. So I don’t know what that would be inspired by. Sometimes it is music from my soul. But sometimes I believe God writes Poetry in my heart and that he drops a song in my spirit to help me in the different seasons he leads me through.”
Peacock has now found her zone as a poet and this is always evident when she performs, once she steps on stage she does wonders. She said she has performed at the 100 Thousand Poets For Change and the Annual Maun International Poetry Festivals where she managed to steal hearts.
“I performed at Berry Hearts CD and Book Launch last year and have been featured in different radio stations including the most recent one which is Words on Gabz fm and the reception I have been getting has been overwhelming to say the least. People love me when I am on stage,” she said.
She outlined that her highest point, as a poet was when she was performing a duo piece called Re-Write The History with another Poet called DreddX.
“I got to produce music that brings the emotion and spirit to the song. I like the repertoire to the poem,” she said.
Peacock also said that she enjoys collaborations as they have the potential of exploding into masterpieces of art.
“I am more of a political poet myself. I have pieces like African Beat, Bondage, and Battlefield that talk about the political turmoil of our time, moral degradation and I believe as much as poetry should rhyme and be beautiful, it should also be relevant and address real issues in our society,” she said.