Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Silenced songs hit wrong notes
    Rhythmic deep throat breathy sighs
       Pressing both sides of collapsed
             Rib cage lovebirds take flight
          Tangled thoughts become unread books
       Glossy jacket cover collecting dust
    Spineless screwy twists plotting revenge
Happy endings not my specialty
Primed blank canvas awaiting inspiration
    Scraped palette knife undertaking gesso
       Faceless portrait imagining dreamscape revisited
          Tottery easel brushed with unlife
          Tethered stray chomping on leash
       Soft belly craving [...]

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Café Rosario’s Pizza and Deli
3425 Broadway St.
American Canyon
707 643-5464
Monday – Friday Lunch 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Monday – Friday Dinner 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturday noon – 10 p.m.

A casual comment in a yoga class led me up highway 29 to explore Café Rosario. The person who told me about this café [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast of major transit early Thursday morning when Mercury, the planet of communication, at 12º Libra will sextile Jupiter, the planet of expansion and growth, at 12º Sagittarius. The energy expressed from this sextile of Mercury with Jupiter [...]

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The 12th Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is scheduled this Sunday, September 23rd. As always, it starts at noon, though this year, the first venue will be Jungle Vibes, 136 Petaluma Boulevard North (next door to where it has traditionally started, for those of you who have attended before.) I asked Geri Digiorno, founder [...]

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Making mistakes
missing details
deterrents to
democracy
security
getting the big
picture just right
each error costing
a thousand years.

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     This remake (originally released in 1957) stars Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. Gritty and raw, the performances were electrifying. Bale plays a hard luck rancher who volunteers to escort gun slinging outlaw Ben Wade (played by Crowe) to Contention and place him in the hands of the authorities on the 3:10 prison train to Yuma. [...]

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I want a Starbucks on each corner,
a WalMart on each block,
if I can’t have everything I want,
then my heart will go into hock…
I don’t want some bright guy for a president,
I want an oil mogul for each head of state.
If I can’t have everything I want,
then I’ll simply buy a bigger plate…
I can hardly [...]

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I’m the Maintenance Man
at a local motel
and my new duties here
are going swell.
I fixed the manager’s
broken waterheater door,
and fixed the ceiling fan
in No. 4.
I fixed the back door
in No. 2,
there’s a lot of things
that I could do for you
if you were the manager
at this local motel.
If my college professors
could only see me now,
they’d probably lust [...]

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              1.
My religion is kindhearted compassion
Taking pride in enabling others
Fiercely independent loner craving soul
Mates making a difference together
Pragmatic realism whatever works best
Discovery learning derring-do gut instincts
Nothing is impossible wandering dybbuk
Surpassing expectations imposed outer limits
             2.
Daring to dare take risks
Afraid of nothing save self-deceit
Restless nomad exploring uncharted vistas
Challenging out of bounds taboos
Mercurial above see level visionary
Winged feet firmly [...]

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Stoned Numbness by charles frederickson

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What’s the Difference Between Peace?

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Sunken Rainbow by charles frederickson

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A Poem for You by matu feliciano

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Take Me! by cyndi combs
winner of the reserve best of show poetry award at this year’s solano county fair

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Compassion is a quality that runs like a thread through all attempts, all efforts to alleviate human suffering. To suffer means, among other things, to “carry.” Compassion means to “carry with.” When we experience compassion, from others or in relationship toward ourselves, we are experiencing the support of another who, by truly listening [...]

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