Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

There was a woman who dared to speak truth in the face of death. The truth as she knew it. For she knew that she did not, could not know Truth entirely.
In fact she knew that even two seemingly contradictory stories could both be true to the tellers of each side, and both could even [...]

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You know that when the poets come out, when the poetry publisher comes out, when the unofficial poet laureate of Vallejo comes out, when legendary poet Craig Easley volunteers to drive the feature from San Francisco, then you know that what you’re going to get is the pure stuff, poetry for poets. Gail Mitchell lived [...]

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happy new year!
i don’t know if i ever got to greet you and tony a happy new year!
and i miss you all at the cafe, too!
i hope to be able to visit soon and get back to my regular schedule of seeing you all =)
take care!
eileen

Gong Hei Fat Choi 2008!
Friends,
Happy New Year! Wishing everyone “congratulations [...]

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Valentine’s Day approaches upon this week. Naturally, everyone tries to celebrate their relationship. Or perhaps, couples entertain the thought of evaluating their relationship. In the contemporary one act musical, “In This House,” a young newlywed couple find themselves taking refuge with an older couple on New Year’s Eve. The older [...]

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OK, how about some free music now that you’ve dipped into the music budget to pay for a Valentine’s Day gift and card? And by “free” I mean “free and legal downloads of music from a computer website that agrees to remove any music per artist request or demand.”
One of my favorite websites with [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-exploration and universal understanding. This week’s forecast of major transits begins on Thursday when the Sun, your source of vitality and light, at 25¬∫ Aquarius, will trine Mars, the planet of ego energy and your personal drive, at 25¬∫ Gemini. The energy expressed from this trine of the Sun with [...]

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She stood in the kitchen looking out the back window at her garden
and asked how often do you think about our history and what it means to be American
standing knee deep in the blood of other folks
the insanity of slavery and how it coats your insides with horror
Now you peep around
looking over your shoulder and [...]

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An inscription on the photo said the heart is a portal
Some pick melody
as the way through
some dance as if on fire
and others write lines to travel time
he was sight traveling
preparing to transition
dancing with the moon
traversing the stars
come on in here
and sit with me awhile
girl we won’t be blue always
time’s a rampant melody
full of stops [...]

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The tines of the fork are rusty
Sister de Strange comes warbling like a loon
peddling cracks and fissures flipping the invisible
shipping starfish to interstellar galaxies
She frets and moans filming flimsy desires
crating unrequited love
claims it’s the perfect charm for Poseidon
Coyote bears watching
he’s on a switch back trail leading nowhere
Everywhere wears a mask and feeds on the voiceless
he’s [...]

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Gail Mitchell is the featured poet tonight during the open mic at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe in Vallejo, CA
There are saints picking out
rotting flesh from their teeth
ambling down highways
of lost experience
seeing in the clouds
the hand of God
And ever watchful
for strange weather patterns
they beating down eternity
with golden arms
and silence follows them
like red wine
I [...]

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