Our second Vibe is coming up on us quick.  We had so much fun last time, we’re going to do Spoken Word night again, but this time with a theme: truth [wiki].  Everyone is welcome to express their thoughts on truth as they’ve experienced it in any and all forms.  Talk about something true or not true, your struggle to find it, your efforts to loose it, its nature, its rarity: anything.  Poetry, short stories, journal entries, raps, short music pieces, essays are all welcome - whatever is true the way you see it.  Both original and popular published works are great.

To get your motor running on the topic, you might want to consider this quote:

A good friend of mine once said to me that our stories are vital because they are perhaps the only thing we can say with absolute authority - precisely because they are our stories. - Alan Hirsch

Or this one:
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.  - Henry David Thoreau

Or this one:
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

For those egg-heads among us, you might want to read up on epistemology [wiki], the study of how we know anything.  If you really want to bake your noodle, read this debate between poet Rabindranath Tagore and physicist Albert Einstein on the nature of truth and reality. You could also surf over to Philaletheia.com (lover of truth in Greek), and check out a conversation between myself and several atheists, agnostics, and people on various spiritual paths.  The dialogue is pretty philosophical and often dips into the very nature of truth and the various ways of looking at it.