Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Tim Weltz, Christine Macomber and Eric Burke star in the Ross Valley Players?Äô production of A.R. Gurney?Äôs comedy ?ÄúThe Cocktail Hour.” Photo by Ron Severdia Before the late sixties, the cocktail hour was a standard function for most financially successful, yet dysfunctional, “wasp” families. It basically served as a time for families to engage in [...]

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Lisa Pastor in February of 2004 attending Listen & Be Heard Open Mic at Rafael’s Listen & Be Heard has been a presence in Vallejo for more than five years now. First just as an open mic that took place weekly at the now defunct Rafael’s, then in our own spot at Listen & Be [...]

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Ed Muskie cried while defending his wife during a media encounter in 1972; his tears cost him the New Hampshire primary. Hillary Clinton cried thirty-six years later, during an ongoing campaign defense of why she would be a good President because, among other things, she was the wife of one; her tears have been credited [...]

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Welcome to another week of self discovery and universal understanding. Your week?Äôs forecast will begin Wednesday when Venus, the planet of personal relationships and artistic expression, at 20¬∫ Sagittarius, will sextile Neptune, the planet of Universal love, at 20¬∫ Aquarius. The energy of the sextile of Venus with Neptune will arouse your creative and romantic [...]

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Waking up under redwoods. Ah! the smell… A halo of treetops. Something to look up to; a stand you take. Colonel Armstrong doesn?Äôt creak when the wind blows, like a Jack London eucalpytus. It’s the quiet type, my father or Gary Cooper, straight & tall. Independent, or seemingly so, if you ignore the obvious It [...]

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Last Friday we had another crowd for the poetry open mic. If you want to express yourself, Friday night is the night to spotlight yourself. We had full list of ten poets, and more who participated in the freestyle final round. We featured Billy Tuggle, a Chicago Slam poet currently on tour in northern California.

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(upon reading love poems from an ex-lover to her new love) Time is so important— from inside. It provides a pattern to lay a life on… Never: only mice will tell, shredded wheat heals all wounds, she arrived at her appointment on congoleum. We age— & still we think young, wink & wrinkle. She spreads [...]

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In the night when poems are born, I search for no one but the hidden words. Conjunctions are just meeting places like personal ads for wild women. Even my lady friend criticizes me for being uncreative, disconnected, a time degenerate. The secrets stretch inside my metaphors I can not find them all. I miss spell [...]

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I am in the full moon space house of my mothers mama wise women walk here we know things and people we have spells and care written on luminous faces beauty is fierce here it shines from within like a shield the softness of it will cut you wound you in heart spaces if you [...]

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:      there is a method to demolishing chicken houses        so as to save the lumber?Ķ start with the roof        pull off the shingles & the 1X6 siding        expose the insides to the elements        strip to the frame & floor listen to the wind relax, let the wind wind through you through the [...]

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