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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 couple make their annual return [...]

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OK, how about some free music now that you?Äôve dipped into the music budget to pay for a Valentine?Äôs Day gift and card? And by ?Äúfree?Äù I mean ?Äúfree and legal downloads of music from a computer website that agrees to remove any music per artist request or demand.?Äù 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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?Äôs the perfect charm for Poseidon Coyote bears watching he?Äôs on a switch back trail leading nowhere [...]

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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 [...]

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