Month: July 2014
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PEACE, HOME
Like coming home from work and / relaxing into the patois of the patter
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Good day, good mood, good wife, good cat
After writing and posting a poem a day for 9+ months, and blogging almost daily for 7 years before that , it was delightful to stop both the daily poem and blog, a definite sense of relief. Now whatever happens, happens, and what doesn’t, doesn’t. We’ve posted 3,375 blogs since July 2006, perhaps 10,000 fotos, […]
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HOW CALLA LILIES ENFOLD
Peace and pace of space / calla lilies slip up into curvaceousness / like the glossy satin of legs arranged / in Vogue Magazine
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Fifty-third Calypso
We’re heading down to the Watershed Stewardship Center in West Creek Reservation Metropark to eat a sunrise breakfast on top of their grass roof. Looking forward to it even though the sky is rain-clouded because it will still be a great way to start our day. Lady mentioned it’s been 6 days since I’ve posted […]
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sticky wicket mercy
Sopping wet from sweat from bicycling 61 blocks on an errand of mercy, then back again. Months ago Lady with her ever kind and giving Ladyheart gave a lift to someone less fortunate. Later that night she and I took over some food to him at his apartment and gave him and his urine soaked […]
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my 2nd singing (in public)
Mad Sing You II musicpoetry Fest – foto by Yogi Jen Yesterday was special for me performance-wise. The night before, Lady and I decided she’d join me singing a couple verses of my reggae song and play a bit of her angklung as well, an instrument whose Indonesian tones fit reggae perfectly. When we told […]
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2morro Mad Sing You II 1-4pm, Pat’s in the Flats
Tomorrow down in the Flats, 7 poet-music acts for a Sunday afternoon – MAD SING YOU II 2nd Annual poetrymusic Fest July 20, 2014, 1pm – 4pm a 21 and over show at Pat’s in the Flats 2233 W. 3rd St (bottom of Literary Hill) Cleveland, Ohio $5 cover charge. Starring: Latex Menagerie (spoken word […]
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climate change, income inequality, racism, sexism
Lady tried to get folk interested in setting up a scholarship for an African American student, and it made me uncomfortable because race is such a sticky wicket, so I’ve been thinking about it – where does race place in the world’s problems? Going by numbers alone, our #1 problem is climate change because that […]
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Split Pea Soup
go 4 it 4 Days from now down in the Flats 7 poet-music acts for a Sunday afternoon MAD SING YOU II 2nd Annual poetrymusic Fest Sunday July 20, 2014, 1pm – 4pm a 21 and over show Pat’s in the Flats 2233 W. 3rd St (bottom of Literary Hill) Cleveland, Ohio $5 cover charge […]