Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Light a candle for the first year when mother hovered near most every moment of every day. Light seven more for the people, the places, the traces in the faces, the foundation of good fortune. Eight more candles between boy and man, the choices marked and measured school, chores, pleasure and freedom. Number seventeen is [...]

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WAR SPELLED BACKWARDS IS RAW Peaceniks rebels championing honorable cause     Liberals weird perverts who care        Progressives controlled chaos unsung heroes           Patriotism vested interest unquestioning loyalty SPIN SPELLED BACKWARDS IS NIPS Friendly Fire clearly ambiguous buttheads     Rules of war safety hazards        Never civil holy or just           Good grief mighty fine [...]

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Tony’s not quite finished hanging all the framed prints, and in fact there is not even room for them all, but it’s enough already to feel a not-so-subtle change of energy here at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café. The opening reception for the new exhibition is this Saturday, September 29 from 7-9pm, and it’s [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week of major transit will begin on Wednesday, when Mercury, the planet of communication, at 28º Libra will trine Mars, the planet of Ego drive and your personal energy, at 28º Gemini. The energy expressed from this trine of [...]

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Maybe Peace is too much of a challenge, or maybe everyone had something else to do on Friday, I don’t know. Our usual crowd was not to be found, but some great poetry about Peace was shared by the small group who did show up. It was good for me to go through my poetry [...]

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Parasitic star feeds off nearby     Companion whittled down to size         Essentially faint white dwarf puffed             Up into jolly red giant Stellar corpse struggling to stay     Afloat blue diamond in rough         Vast ocean of celestial indifference             Whirlpool vortex converging two tides Pulsar has eaten [...]

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why can’t I walk out the door without being told to go back in why can’t I go to sleep without being told to wake up why should I always feel trapped inside why do I cry even though I have no reason why do we live in a world where there’s violence why can’t [...]

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Part of me is missing     Lost never to be found        Double jeopardy no easy answers           Contrived simple solutions rarely are I?Äôd like to be whole     Once again brittle shards restored        Shattered mirror glued back together           Demons slipping through jagged cracks Brokenhearted prismatic refractive crystal teardrops     No vacancy sign [...]

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RAW WAR by charles frederickson

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OpenHeartSurgery by jennifer l. wadsworth

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we’re all war poets now by labi siffre

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Democrazy Pollcat by charles frederickson

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Each morning you enjoy a cup of coffee at your local (this is very important?) [tag]coffee[/tag] shop. But can you imagine the months of hard labor that went into producing your cup of Joe? It all begins with the ?green beans?, which are like any other natural crop that have been cultivated through good farming [...]

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It may come as a surprise to some that many of the medicines used at home and in their doctor?s office were originally derived from plants or animals. Research the origins of aspirin and you will find it derived from willow bark. Penicillin, a drug that treats bacterial infections, might be growing in your house [...]

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Flowers have long held a place of high esteem in the traditional healing systems of the world. Many plant flowers have medicinal properties that are utilized in Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Native American healing. California poppy and passionflower are two highly regarded plants utilized in Western herbalism in the treatment of depression, anxiety, [...]

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