Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

?ÄúAll night the sound had/come back again,/and again falls/this quiet, persistent rain.?Äù –Robert Creeley, ?ÄúThe Rain?Äù Elias Negash, speaking on behalf of the Ethiopian Arts Forum, was introducing the Either/Orchestra and their special guest Mulatu Astatke at Historic Sweet?Äôs Ballroom in Oakland on Saturday night, February 2, 2008. The introduction was in English, which had [...]

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I understand that even ducks won?Äôt fly in the rain. And truth be known that part of my reasoning is that as good as my digital cameras are (two D70s,) water and electronics do not do well together. So this last weekend at the annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival ( http://www.sfbayflywayfestival.com/whatsnew.htm/) I didn?Äôt feel [...]

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Mostly there are plenty of poets for the open mic on Friday nights. But occasionally there are more people who want to listen than be heard. That’s what it was like last Friday, when we had the musicians, we had the spirit, and those who did share came with family, plenty poetry and couple of [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-exploration and universal understanding. This week’s forecast of major transits began on Wednesday when the Sun, your source of vitality and light, at 17¬∫ Aquarius will conjunct Mercury, the planet of communication. Today you will hear news and information that will be upsetting, and will affect the general population. This [...]

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The day after Super Tuesday plenty of people are talking but no one actually knows anything definitive about much of anything, and to be honest I wasn’t clear, going into Super Tuesday about the hard facts behind the issues I was supposed to be voting on. That sentence was really long, almost as long as [...]

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he spit tricky words it was beautiful and with detached meanings and loosely defined messages it remained beautiful i won’t front… i couldn’t understand a word he said. it just sounded pretty but made absolutely no sense i don’t know if it was simply because his inspiration didn’t speak my language or maybe i wasn’t [...]

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*Sugarplum visions winter wonderland idyll      **Secret pitfalls good gravy cover-ups          ***Mashed potato transfigured burial mounds              ****Gnashing jagged teeth ground down                  ***** *First flaky crust tread carefully      **Every telling bloody misstep shows          ***Thin ice meltdown tenuously refreezing              ****Makeshift rink skates need sharpening                  ***** *Intense silence unconscious being snowbound [...]

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for lawrence “butch” morris We’ve been making music from the front plucking strings blowing air through cylinders beating on animal skins raising our voices in exaltation each of us humming or tapping or speaking a melody or hearing harmony or living between the beats improvising each moment or interpreting what is given to us to [...]

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a State of Mind Created by Memory and Anticipation Reality Imposing itself on Fantasy Personal Preference a Laundry List of THINGS TO DO much much LONGER than What I WANT to do but no matter what the bills must be Paid and Keep the Tax man away.

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Southern Cross emitting hopeful rays        Silvery tinsel aurora australis afterglow              Gold Coast spawning red coral                    Calcerous skeletons high-spirited reefer madness > > > > > > > > > Sun major regenerative energy source        Earth tilting elliptical orbit axis              Circadian clockwork regulates daily rhythms                    All-too-predictable 7/11 rotations open 24 [...]

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