tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34002499237515392742024-03-13T17:27:36.038-07:00The (ex,in,e)Ternal Journ(ey)alUnderneath my schemes, dreams, themes and doings
all I really want is to be closer to you and myself.
I am unpacking my bags for this journey.
I am beginning a new chapter,
my penmanship more care-ful and wild,
my author-ity comes in harmony,
my song is my sword and white flag.
Mirror-cle,
use me to decide what to wear in the mornings,
I will look at myself in you until I look back.
Let us marvel at the pain we shed and the love we make, like petals bowing to fruit.
Journey me.i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-56897342660854207742014-05-18T02:27:00.002-07:002014-05-18T02:27:58.016-07:00Happiness is a Rainbow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 18pt;">Happiness is a rainbow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">Often found after heavy clouds unload,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">often missed in the condensed light spectrum <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">of eyes who have been trained to see danger <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">and protect us from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">Fuck happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">Hatred is a weather front.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">Storms stay when we build bio-domes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">Storms want to pass through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">like souls impact on pooled down poor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">gathered by the gravity of this life, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14pt;">here on the ground.<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-16836796340286540532013-01-09T23:50:00.000-08:002013-01-09T23:52:24.910-08:00Hope Springs Eternal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had such a good heart<br />
There was so much space<br />
I coulda been an astronaut<br />
Looking at this place<br />
Floating quiet with the stars peaceful and embraced<br />
Instead they told me both feet on the ground<br />
And laid to waist<br />
The planet that my great greats<br />
Loved with so much grace<br />
And the hearts of all my mates brake<br />
They carry so much weight<br />
<br />
I remember when i swore<br />
Not to love anymore<br />
'Cause it hurt beyond belief when pops gave up and out the door...<br />
<br />
I couldn't trust my mom then<br />
They told me that i must be strong<br />
Never felt belonging<br />
'Cause we had that strong thing wrong<br />
Around the world we bombing<br />
1 by 1 my homies gone<br />
We often feel belonging wronging someone else who's done us wrong<br />
<br />
I felt right when i wrote<br />
I made it right when i spoke<br />
My truth to my God<br />
And to that space in which i used to float<br />
<br />
Lock 'em up<br />
Kill 'em all<br />
Seems like we need some new<br />
Stories to change history<br />
I can see the brand new view<br />
<br />
When you peak out with your heart<br />
Spacious as the all outdoors<br />
When you take me down to<br />
The center of this burning core<br />
When we both remember that anything can be so<br />
Because we are the gardener, the garden, and what gardens grow<br />
Heed the seeds we planted there<br />
Seeds are the trees we climb<br />
Grown up on their fruitfulness<br />
Closer to the heaven's shine<br />
One day we will tippy toe<br />
At the top of canopy<br />
And lift off in our glow<br />
And shine back at our family tree...<br />
<br />i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-47040649281741052712012-07-06T16:26:00.001-07:002012-07-06T16:47:39.071-07:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HaARW8OTQOQ" width="420"></iframe><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Paul Simon's 'Graceland' was one of the few albums me and my mama agreed on. On road trips it was Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman, and Graceland. That combo; Paul's smooth, clever, abstract poetry and guitar and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's vibrancy, the power of their harmony, the joy and the depth, the playfulness and heart! I felt so free as we flew down the highway all singing 'boy in the bubble' or 'c</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">all me Al'. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; display: inline; text-align: left;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I few years ago i started to fulfill a hunger i had always had, a longing to know my ancestry, to feel another language in my mouth, to celebrate the way my people did when they knew the land was a relative, when they spoke the language the land showed them, when they intuited the way their souls wanted to live...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I found the most satisfaction in music.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Dene Peyote songs, Sanskrit mantras, Lakota flute prayers, Dogon star ritual drum circles, gaelic hymns, anything that came from a direct connection to this earth, these stars, this heart, this life...</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I started weaving these prayers into my beats, and i would dance around my room for hours each time :) grinning, praying, laughing, sometimes crying, sometimes making up words or singing the languages my mind did not speak. In July of 2011 i spent a month in Peru with some curanderos and i returned with the jungle in my veins, the mountains in my stance, and the people in my ears... i spent the next few months noticing how indigenous we all are, how we gather in circles to smoke, or freestyle, or just t alk, how we pour out libations for our loved ones who have past, how much we use story to teach and understand each other, how we claim the 4 directions (or at least one :) Most of us unknowingly carry so many of the traditions of our ancient families everyday...</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; display: inline; text-align: left;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; display: inline; text-align: left;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">For a few years now, i have been blessed to sit in circle with young men in juvinille hall a few times a week within this awakening my brother Gerardo Marin and I began to learn rites of passage rituals, sage ceremonies, flute and drum meditations, and explorations celebrating, honoring, mourning and expanding our whole lineage remembering what had been stolen from us to make us real slaves.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; display: inline; text-align: left;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: black; display: inline; text-align: left;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">And as we awaken to our ancient wisdom we notice how interwoven it is in our lives, slightly twisted, slighty confused under imperialism and capitalism but alive and well, and patiently waiting for us to recognize it again</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">So here is an album born of this awakening, born in the hearts of the medicine carriers in Peru, in East Oakland, in Berkeley, in South Africa, and in the constellations around us, born of our entire lineage dancing with our descendants into a beautiful future...</span></span></span></span>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-48665468863939615272012-06-06T11:30:00.000-07:002012-06-06T11:30:03.540-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The planet of love,<br />
the 1st and last star in the sky<br />
kissed the sun today.<br />
<br />
And we spoke of being ourselves,<br />
we spoke of faith<br />
and fear,<br />
<br />
learning to fit in,<br />
to shave down our octagonal edges<br />
<br />
<br />
to fit in square boxes<br />
to grow edges on our circular beings<br />
to fit in rectangular peg holes.<br />
<br />
We found scars<br />
filled with the hardened tissue of judgment and discrimination,<br />
we softened scar tissue<br />
with our own tears
and the un-owned tears of our lineages.<br />
<br />
We looked our beliefs in the eyes;<br />
the guards to our sacred temples,<br />
and we held them dearly<br />
and thanked them for their hard hard work<br />
<br />
we knew it was time to let the world in<br />
to let them in,<br />
to bend and bow and pray.<br />
<br />
We are all puzzle pieces<br />
but the world will not fit together<br />
as long as we are hiding our true shapes,<br />
distorting our true visions<br />
emanating through our surfaces<br />
from our depths<br />
and in the amalgamations of our interconnected being.<br />
<br />
The planet of love,<br />
the 1st and last star in the sky<br />
kissed the sun today.<br />
<br />
I wanted to kiss you<br />
Instead we kissed our love<br />
from heart to flesh<br />
from flesh to seed,<br />
<br />
and we planted our love in our presence and grew faith,<br />
a loving knowing flowering field<br />
choreographed in wind<br />
basking in the sweet force pouring from the earth,<br />
the heavens,
and within.<br />
<br />
We harvested the audacity to drop concern for opinion like fall leaves<br />
and to surrender to the rhythm abounding from our seed<br />
as life itself made sweet love of us, to us, with us, from us…<br />
<br />
the planet of love,<br />
the 1st and last star in the sky<br />
kissed me today<br />
and reminded me we’re in love.i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-54473215426441555772012-03-28T13:03:00.004-07:002012-03-28T13:16:07.530-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhUiYd9sskLza6rgCcdOhdsA83yhlAcqnvHyjBlaP6VbmjB7rUcJeDEfM30kXgrWunyL7vUuqEyZmflQ-9GhMJt8IXj5JbE4GIpNRd2wQXhijtEo9LTr3gY6Mo_Buu2aIB2VlbzcMjww/s1600/violet+bhuddah.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhUiYd9sskLza6rgCcdOhdsA83yhlAcqnvHyjBlaP6VbmjB7rUcJeDEfM30kXgrWunyL7vUuqEyZmflQ-9GhMJt8IXj5JbE4GIpNRd2wQXhijtEo9LTr3gY6Mo_Buu2aIB2VlbzcMjww/s320/violet+bhuddah.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725042619704560466" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">ALMOST INVISIBLE WEBS<br /></span>it' s a delicate dance <br />to let flow what we need flowing, <br />and to ride the current out of it's same old course... <br /><br />we talk in story, <br />we wanna chance at a different author-ity <br /><br />so we double dutch, <br />waiting for the perfect moments <br />to dance with tight ropes, <br /><br />weaving almost invisible webs<br />we dream of being fly & flying free...<br /><br />we joke on the side, <br />cracking up, we notice mud flakes making way for an (un)familiar gleam...i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-62970601922454643402012-03-10T23:27:00.005-08:002012-03-10T23:40:10.523-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs0Jd41Jtc2qMaWcce-bEOSPrL14fpiS8__rmEBCQ3Ii1zjL8E3c48URy403hoaNjBlUQr6kB9NDLtD4eAuxeeUkAzbiJvtyo-2TLWHse9qUDldyFHAyFiNHdozjPKcYDSqYqrzWdTtc/s1600/41216_120690094648075_108627409187677_134272_5850450_n.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs0Jd41Jtc2qMaWcce-bEOSPrL14fpiS8__rmEBCQ3Ii1zjL8E3c48URy403hoaNjBlUQr6kB9NDLtD4eAuxeeUkAzbiJvtyo-2TLWHse9qUDldyFHAyFiNHdozjPKcYDSqYqrzWdTtc/s320/41216_120690094648075_108627409187677_134272_5850450_n.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718541025544626114" /></a>Make your Decision <br />To have Precision <br />with your Incision <br />and Go De-Pr-In :)i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-28345139352827703852012-03-09T16:31:00.006-08:002012-03-09T16:49:10.012-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBso44-kiXcODEKuxKW6nBJ7QIbATjPUA3G75CgQg0jXIW1vgu6-9xjZVC9ZajkYb7gQVxrKlSnN5285onSn_yrIKZbk6i5PM_6TkraJLI_KoQflw9ZW-JOeqeZBdp5XyA-hWpoK64HAw/s1600/i.Ameni-u+and+me+see.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBso44-kiXcODEKuxKW6nBJ7QIbATjPUA3G75CgQg0jXIW1vgu6-9xjZVC9ZajkYb7gQVxrKlSnN5285onSn_yrIKZbk6i5PM_6TkraJLI_KoQflw9ZW-JOeqeZBdp5XyA-hWpoK64HAw/s320/i.Ameni-u+and+me+see.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718062453578564514" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yesterday, walking home, marveling at a gorgeous woman<br />I said "excuse me, in the most respectful way, you are soooo beautiful!"<br /><br />She smiled and said,<br /><br />"Tell me i'm beautiful by being beautiful with me,<br />Show me my beauty by being my reflection,<br />Surrender your hunger for my beauty,<br />To the nourishment of (y)our own.<br />Thank you"<br /><br />I grinned big, held my tongue and shone in a deep bow...<br /><br /><br />Thank you for the reminder Sister.i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-68555735458327842072012-03-01T21:10:00.015-08:002012-03-01T21:34:25.693-08:00Meet me with Love<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkyJr3wVCNw6KvvdUK9-OQR-ciR3kg7BRFl_7dly244tAsg-FTBV6aMwmBb9m3HPbZEFcrsKmqvZrc8wA_9E4G4w09AYgCmAaAZTO2BUaaUJpwsj8-4Y6I9sqm_WlIZPnldmmsEBMz7Y/s1600/267273_10150331264534994_583294993_9657493_5421772_n.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkyJr3wVCNw6KvvdUK9-OQR-ciR3kg7BRFl_7dly244tAsg-FTBV6aMwmBb9m3HPbZEFcrsKmqvZrc8wA_9E4G4w09AYgCmAaAZTO2BUaaUJpwsj8-4Y6I9sqm_WlIZPnldmmsEBMz7Y/s320/267273_10150331264534994_583294993_9657493_5421772_n.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715167577007424594" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />When i meet you with love<br /><br />You meet me with love<br /><br />wether you know it or not : )i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-42253607918176322482012-02-16T13:32:00.000-08:002012-02-16T13:39:53.970-08:00Life is our Altar<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVEVd-97Y1F7djSlNM7lshRpn_xRcYu9xB1Nv12Ky0FzYA537yrG9A1CPBk00Z5s0Rbegyqbr3oMEG8mxgkkI70sMGqML1OkR3UXNr4T5frgt8T2b4v5LeHUh5y7KkNXlAgu3SfQ6dw0/s1600/Namaste.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVEVd-97Y1F7djSlNM7lshRpn_xRcYu9xB1Nv12Ky0FzYA537yrG9A1CPBk00Z5s0Rbegyqbr3oMEG8mxgkkI70sMGqML1OkR3UXNr4T5frgt8T2b4v5LeHUh5y7KkNXlAgu3SfQ6dw0/s320/Namaste.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709850541954579442" /></a>eyes open <br />kiss myself<br />thank the life for living in me<br />around me<br />with me<br /><br />thank the sun <br />the stone people <br />the standing ones<br />water mother<br />earth breath<br />kinfolk<br />we move<br />hug <br />open in each other<br />dance<br />sing<br />juice<br />drink<br />cut pick<br />pluck<br />cook<br />eat<br /><br />bathe in the love we gardens grow<br /><br />dance through the streets singing in our families eyes<br />pollinate hi vibes<br />gather and harvest the sweet honey <br />make a honey comb hive of the galaxy<br /><br />in drum beat<br />in swirling revelatory stillness<br />in surprise glimpses of our hearts and souls<br />in justice returned <br />true power remembered<br />in listening to falling leaves and trickling water and crashing waves and devouring fires<br /><br />we remember our family together<br />we tell new stories<br />sing new songs<br />dance old dances in new bodies<br />and catch the mirror behind the subject in the mirror<br /><br />we find each other<br />we dream each other up<br />and up and up and up<br />until there is no up and down<br />no side to side<br />not even side by side<br />only one<br />won<br />simply being <br />as an act of victory<br /> <br />life is our altar<br />and in each miraculous act of creativity we place our love upon heri.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-55459564333092957642012-02-04T12:29:00.000-08:002012-02-11T20:01:51.467-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjL3CySi2TlKV6tyAMTewse8LubJomfiBteeacETsj9EWK0EzEGDZt3Pysq_NSXqdLbuvlhQO5m6Bbi3w97SiaeNuGQ_BAhRZQ8_PEFLkPWoedoA3VtMwkPogfTEbMwfYWY8sDrkad5zE/s1600/quetzalcoatl_by_rykyramirez-d2cazso.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjL3CySi2TlKV6tyAMTewse8LubJomfiBteeacETsj9EWK0EzEGDZt3Pysq_NSXqdLbuvlhQO5m6Bbi3w97SiaeNuGQ_BAhRZQ8_PEFLkPWoedoA3VtMwkPogfTEbMwfYWY8sDrkad5zE/s320/quetzalcoatl_by_rykyramirez-d2cazso.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705384003816264130" /></a>The time of the Dragon is hear<br /><br />The scales are balancing<br /><br />The heart and the feather see eye to eye<br /><br /><br /><br />Qetzalcoatl<br /><br />Let your mind wander...<br /><br />after thoughts,<br />in fields of awareness,<br />what matters? <br /><br />In matters of the heart<br />We have Miss-ed and Sir-ed the real<br /><br />De-sense-atized<br /><br />Reeling from reel to reel <br /><br />What do you feel?<br /><br />For real.<br /><br /><br />The time of the Dragon is here<br /><br />We collect ourselves in our surroundings<br />Gathered by firelight with a choir of molecules<br />quirks and quarks<br />Turning our qualms to psalms<br /><br />Press your palms open<br />Let everything u never knew u always wanted pour in<br />Let everything u thought u needed be you<br />let secret strands of DNA <br />dissolve these genetically engineered mind states <br />we picked up in the produce sections of our self consuming consciousness<br /><br />The time of the dragon is here.<br /><br />Breathe fire in the lifeless corners of the hardened hearts<br /><br />Scale up, or down, or back or IN!<br /><br />Let claws come out, let feet leave cliffs behind <br />remember the bed of clouds you dreamed yourself up on<br /><br />heart of moon<br />wrapped in sun<br />wrapped in moon<br />mirrors for scales<br />as many hearts as scales<br />each scale the gateway to heaven<br />hearts see eye to eye <br /><br />The time of the Dragon is here...i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-60927017927482286262011-12-23T00:48:00.000-08:002011-12-23T00:53:17.089-08:00i.Ameni Beat CollagesHome from Peru with vivid dreams in sleep and visions during the day coax the birth of the ArcoIris i.Ameni video collages...<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s7sjnmsmPFs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zOoKssZ48ZQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OKeefLDC_T4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iln9Iw0VZJ0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/c_3h3fHrhAw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GOGRgF6oDOc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-81886721276326949142011-06-11T22:37:00.000-07:002011-06-12T20:15:12.128-07:00Peru: Day 1.2:) havent really slept in 3 days, going right now, lima was intense and beautiful, had a whole crowd ready to welcome in the new president taking pictures of me and the afro (and feather) instead :) <br /><br />they know how to show love...<br /><br />(and curiosity, and appreciation, and perplexion ;) and...) <br /><br />just got to cusco this morning and it feels like days ago, the air, the earth, the mountains are special here! the elevation thins the bloods and quickens the vibration, the cobblestone streets and old colonial stylings built on top of incan architcture tell so many stories, the big small city feeling makes community accesable and flux and excitement rampid... so u know i{m vibin serious!!!<br /><br /><br />met hella cool folks, the kind that feel like fam right away, it´s a serious practice to stay open cuz there are so many people tryna sell you things here and what they´re selling is so amazing, it´s so exhausting telling all the good people on their hustle no every 2 minutes (literally!)... <br /><br />more investigations into the class system and the nature of the gov´t here when we meet up with the homies Fred and Luzma... so many with so little and so much... you know how it is...<br /><br />overwhelming, refreshing, great practice in boundaries and openess, great reminders of community and culture and play, and as always i am expanding...<br /><br />give thanks<br />live love<br /><br />holler with more soon...<br /><br />my pictures are on the video camera with no computer connection so you¨ll see those later...<br /><br />1i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-20212759857838013412011-05-13T10:53:00.000-07:002011-05-13T10:59:16.274-07:00I Am The BE-Ginning<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2u9H5G2chZI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Waiting on The Pre-Sent Meets The 365 Mama Tree Project! <br /><br />Amanda WouldGo Will create an art altar for The Mama Tree, the Beginning every day for the next year! BE-Hold! www.AmandaWouldgo.blogspot.comi.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-51567678305483650962011-05-13T10:16:00.000-07:002011-05-13T10:21:00.544-07:00Amanda WouldGo Meets Flat Stanely Meets i.Ameni and The Place To BE<br /><br /><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KzEpU14uhwY?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KzEpU14uhwY?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object><br /><br />see Amanda WouldGo and more of her whimsical genius @ Amanda WouldGo.blogspot.comi.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-42194247133952571062011-05-13T10:15:00.001-07:002011-05-13T10:15:51.984-07:00Los Rakas-Soy Raka<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7JtZ06ZRezo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />It's been amazing to watch people's responses to this beat, i made it pretty quickly one night, probably spent more time dancing around the room than i did making it :)<br /><br />The song gets played all over the place in the bay, made national news for the Turf dancing in the video, and it's on the radio in Panama! <br /><br />Los Rakas does there thing! They are hard working professional artists with big hearts, making beautiful music. <br /><br />and...it's sad to watch the gunz and gold ones get all the play, how much more work we have to put in to feed the people something different, how much we gotta sneak it in...<br /><br />I know we're hungry for nourishment, keep working on the recipe :)i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-66705070921101465682011-01-13T21:07:00.000-08:002011-01-14T04:20:01.126-08:00fLOWERS fOR tHE dEADFrom all the Attik house spirits, the ancestors, and the decendants... Flowers For tHE dEAD...<br /> <object data="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=2031323244/size=venti/bgcol=000000/linkcol=4285BB//" type="text/html" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="100"><param name="movie" value="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=2031323244/size=venti/bgcol=000000/linkcol=4285BB//"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowNetworking" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><object data="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=2031323244/size=venti/bgcol=000000/linkcol=4285BB//" type="text/html" width="400" height="100"></object></object><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X5kOMU7YAUE?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X5kOMU7YAUE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> flowers for the dead<br />flowers for the dead<br />they've got time to smell 'em now<br />and think on what they've said<br />me i haunt myself so much i only hear my head<br />flowers for the dead<br /><br /><br />at my wake i'll finally wake and like a snake i'll shed<br />all the things that killed me and i'll start to live instead<br />my skin and bones i'll give 'em to the next on down the line<br />to resurrect a monument to this big me of mine<br />turning in my grave the page that booked marked what i knew<br />i'll reach up past the pain and sang a little song for you<br />i'll give the bee's and birds desert and be there for the dew<br />and soak up all the rain and sun so you can smell what's true<br /><br /><br />flowers for the dead x2<br />we've got time to smell em now and think on what we've said<br />me i haunt myself so much just help me clear my head<br />flowers for the dead x2<br /><br /><br />sometime i hear the spirits<br />sometimes i fear the spirits<br />sometimes i'm near the spirits<br />sometimes i feel the spirit<br /><br /><br />i've been pining in my boxes<br />no more boxes for me<br />any dirt on me <br />is right under your feet<br />feeds the flowers<br />feeds the fruits<br />look in closely you'll see<br /><br /><br />fowers for the dead x2<br />we've got time to smell em now and think on what we've said<br />me i haunt myself so much just help me clear my head<br />flowers for the dead x2i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-35974190483706417372010-04-30T13:11:00.001-07:002010-05-03T23:18:59.140-07:00OPPORTUNITIES<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezqIdpmf1C53RUVI3YGjjeXDzKcCjqE9NbBlHeDviiqI3IYE7nPZhNYeCGu3h1az-ao67vLIoARhc7m1J0VN1c0r11cLyFXtMIJrsQPiLUKWz_AGacV5tStVZQwpOoKWfEtqn9UjFt5s/s1600/harrison+%26+amani.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezqIdpmf1C53RUVI3YGjjeXDzKcCjqE9NbBlHeDviiqI3IYE7nPZhNYeCGu3h1az-ao67vLIoARhc7m1J0VN1c0r11cLyFXtMIJrsQPiLUKWz_AGacV5tStVZQwpOoKWfEtqn9UjFt5s/s320/harrison+%26+amani.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467295315391767714" /></a><br /><br /><br />Amidst the rushing rivers of opportunity is<br />the constant flowing possibility of creating exactly what you want<br />each moment and every detail of exactly what you want.<br /><br />Opportunities gone unrecognized and missed <br />are reflectedin each star with whom you have not made friends<br />but there is no loss, because opportunity is perpetual. <br /><br />You have become the person you are<br />a flower of life; a rose<br />forming an individual unique variety<br />responding to and utilizing opportunity like a spider<br />catching a fly floating on air. <br /><br />You have nothing to fear; you are taken care of<br />your god self realization is inevitable<br />so relinquish your protection and go with the wind of god. <br />A fine, fine wind; the wind of time<br />blowing the total unrestrained love of isness<br />that which is all, all of it. <br /><br />And in each moment, there is opportunity to shed the husk<br />peel away the skin down to the fruit<br />and be wide open to all that is<br />and live without fear on behalf of your own best interest<br />creating fresh love in every moment<br />and loving perpetually and perfectly<br />each and every person, animal, blade of grass, and insect. <br /><br />the opportunity to be your God Self <br />out of the closet<br />is yours<br />and you know it's realization is inevitable <br /><br />-Harrison Simms Happy Birthday!!!!i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-17642088294038003812010-04-18T12:13:00.001-07:002010-04-18T12:14:33.079-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4GuaLv_vNGB2XsHwebUTO60hT-0N2JbTEW8G1QgkYQUnxTx3iLsLBaCBGcviTDFcfa22o60bpnqEaQtV0w9xU7qGGNuUPZ2R9W9Lg18qxO7Dngiah_vYoIefk_WO-DeFSKQGwaMgaDM/s1600/khara-fire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4GuaLv_vNGB2XsHwebUTO60hT-0N2JbTEW8G1QgkYQUnxTx3iLsLBaCBGcviTDFcfa22o60bpnqEaQtV0w9xU7qGGNuUPZ2R9W9Lg18qxO7Dngiah_vYoIefk_WO-DeFSKQGwaMgaDM/s320/khara-fire.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461557935328031618" /></a><br />sometimes the truth <br />feels like a burning flame<br />when the flame is licking you<br />when you’re done calling to the rain<br /><br />sang<br />con su mi fuego <br />take me to the sky again <br /><br />sometimes the truth <br />feels like the ocean the way it moves<br />i can be shore <br />but there’s only so much those shore knew<br />con su mi mar<br />a tear returning home again<br /><br />burning through fuel<br />energy, money <br />my cool<br />all i could puff was smoke<br />and i felt like such a fool<br />the fire forgave me to the air i needed<br /><br />con su mi fuego <br />take me to the sky againi.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-63734693626966900562010-04-18T02:42:00.000-07:002010-04-18T12:05:06.531-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZhJPZWtySIcqFk_wKP6xueiho0U__dsub7Jxah7IlnbW3uAhTajojjFLoD0EG3k2OHEHsTFFI89j-p4mdZ0FGjJw_01GZTSxJ5u5y7mYWkcAaHQL3AfU5tD1g38xQW-kPOHJPeazK3g/s1600/Grace-Lisa+Cuoco-never+again.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZhJPZWtySIcqFk_wKP6xueiho0U__dsub7Jxah7IlnbW3uAhTajojjFLoD0EG3k2OHEHsTFFI89j-p4mdZ0FGjJw_01GZTSxJ5u5y7mYWkcAaHQL3AfU5tD1g38xQW-kPOHJPeazK3g/s320/Grace-Lisa+Cuoco-never+again.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461553861370413250" /></a><br />we're so powerful we can even deceive OURSELVES into thinking we aren't...i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-28819500872286728362010-03-25T02:45:00.000-07:002010-03-25T03:01:12.696-07:00Sneak Peak 'Grace' footage in Loyan Warsame's Demo Reel<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10376638&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10376638&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10376638">DEMO REEL 2010</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3437705">Loyan Warsame</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-26674495805416609182010-03-18T01:50:00.000-07:002010-03-19T14:25:41.158-07:00The Grace Dancer's<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_PONjiab7BkrvKKLx2ztxk0dsIebJkVQbdJVozuxUiHG05lFSp8gd_sMerrEgfYaKPUQZYewG9xt_Gxm31DB1D5YQfBYb8nIBoRv3VM6O4Sqa613q-81VIeoD8ktvwdUu88z164E93k/s1600-h/Grace-Ian+Davis-against+the+wall+playing03.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449903896364557554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_PONjiab7BkrvKKLx2ztxk0dsIebJkVQbdJVozuxUiHG05lFSp8gd_sMerrEgfYaKPUQZYewG9xt_Gxm31DB1D5YQfBYb8nIBoRv3VM6O4Sqa613q-81VIeoD8ktvwdUu88z164E93k/s320/Grace-Ian+Davis-against+the+wall+playing03.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju78tSCUfQj1kvag9h0NYe1-vbcOZ3-6G_Xn7sgNns8WugbDGxnwox22O-8JIWtFng3tSK-bEHt84dvRfic0hMHs92UXaoWOGVVXAynBKLND5VeX41NbKzXHd8rsjjaGBo2duRGJn2aLA/s1600-h/Grace-Ian+Davis-against+the+wall+playing02.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449896459289244290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju78tSCUfQj1kvag9h0NYe1-vbcOZ3-6G_Xn7sgNns8WugbDGxnwox22O-8JIWtFng3tSK-bEHt84dvRfic0hMHs92UXaoWOGVVXAynBKLND5VeX41NbKzXHd8rsjjaGBo2duRGJn2aLA/s320/Grace-Ian+Davis-against+the+wall+playing02.jpg" /></a> These are the Grace dancers: </div><div>studious teachers, contagious dancers, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">inter dimensional</span> nondenominational shamans, singers & spirit raisers, mothers, my sisters, and the movement within oneself that brings about grace in the 'Grace' <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">MusicmotionPictureShort</span> and i tell you!!!... </div><div></div><div>after watching them dance every week,</div><div>while i was dancing with logistics, and frustration, and joy, and overwhelm, and gratitude...</div><div></div><div>playing with the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">lil</span>' big <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">homie</span> Sean,</div><div>playing "leap frog", "give mommy presents", and "follow me around while i turn everything into a playground"...</div><div></div><div>holding newborn <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Khayri</span> and matching my breath to his, my vibration to ours</div><div>and being washed with utterly <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">unconditional</span> love... </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>and after the madness of countess <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">cancellations</span>, logistics, reschedules, finding props for free, working with 20 people on a for the love budget etc...</div><div></div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> learning to relax into the unknown, to enjoy the dance , to dance with it all, to lead and to follow...</div><div></div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> learning i don't need a reason to smile</div><div>and i don't have to give myself a reason to frown</div><div></div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> learning what i really believe when things get hard</div><div>unearthing my buried broken hearts </div><div>and planting them again in more fertile soil<br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> learning to care</div><div>and to let go</div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> learning to love for no reason</div><div>because then it would stand to reason that no reason could make me stop ;)</div><div></div><div><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> learning myself</div><div>and every genuine glimpse shows me you</div><div></div><div>looking at me looking at you</div><div></div><div>what a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">mirror-cle</span>! ;)</div><div><br /></div><div></div>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-85063468414986869732010-01-10T10:45:00.000-08:002010-01-10T10:47:55.444-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsae1pWXhH1Fx6Z-OL4E_fHdRX_vh3ZbIgJ7NqxIv2AGd9e1sjM3p3nOl4W9_pVEsnFk7lUAVncKyjOdd3iWghUfoIRgxMFWA47zME6C55YWOdna4b_ERFOuqVzoa-fk-vNHVSAO8Z50/s1600-h/sun+and+flower.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425184700470498786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsae1pWXhH1Fx6Z-OL4E_fHdRX_vh3ZbIgJ7NqxIv2AGd9e1sjM3p3nOl4W9_pVEsnFk7lUAVncKyjOdd3iWghUfoIRgxMFWA47zME6C55YWOdna4b_ERFOuqVzoa-fk-vNHVSAO8Z50/s320/sun+and+flower.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div>like the soaring of a reaching flower</div><br /><div>still. peaceful.</div><br /><div>and soaring...</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>a yearning so great,</div><br /><div>so deeply rooted,</div><br /><div>it takes flight into it's own skies</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>the heart is the sun and the flower</div>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-22538583987935899422010-01-10T10:35:00.000-08:002010-01-10T10:48:49.757-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr8cvHhUVlgGEwWZ1cUD1IqlDQ2Uq1sOLZcHfSVsxiDTd4Fgs_zb_PQct7EVsNksUgJ2x7X2SAfpIKJ8MPC1tZz7dXh3E5or95cGQG9R18Qgxz2sYXxrckNgpKkvWzK-P9Ofd2AeR0As/s1600-h/underwater+sunlight.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425183103090868658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr8cvHhUVlgGEwWZ1cUD1IqlDQ2Uq1sOLZcHfSVsxiDTd4Fgs_zb_PQct7EVsNksUgJ2x7X2SAfpIKJ8MPC1tZz7dXh3E5or95cGQG9R18Qgxz2sYXxrckNgpKkvWzK-P9Ofd2AeR0As/s320/underwater+sunlight.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div>each dream i live.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>what fertility. underneath the underneath. dreaming is already like splashing below the surface of the water and opening your eyes except sometimes it's the dirt garden surface instead of water and oh, this is what seeds are up to before they pop through.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>root the root. we drink the sky</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>-noa wotton</div>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-37251231830658736352010-01-04T17:02:00.000-08:002010-01-04T17:18:48.165-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzcP9zyTvkI9bMOEHThKCfzmu2AvefxZiOFHZKyRXLZFNS57JwCrD2Px9YArlFrm6tEPdg7-Qtye_1znH8QPneNcTUkoTUtso1Ya4WOhQkDK7dAVHlZP-HKqkFEO13__KtI3gjjzZjg-E/s1600-h/sprouts.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 305px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423058428539491394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzcP9zyTvkI9bMOEHThKCfzmu2AvefxZiOFHZKyRXLZFNS57JwCrD2Px9YArlFrm6tEPdg7-Qtye_1znH8QPneNcTUkoTUtso1Ya4WOhQkDK7dAVHlZP-HKqkFEO13__KtI3gjjzZjg-E/s320/sprouts.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGND7mR1rV3ZbMt8viM4JZZeJNbDzf7aU9vm2hY5r8G95dugbSwDg7yAvUv_W5evyydPT_XDEUQ_Z4IAjGWVsyC2o_F1WBqg1lZ7LWpyywUZQ2Q2L_lJajS6HHzG7_EDioQK_JigevjH4/s1600-h/sprouts.jpg"></a><div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Your and my ignorance play us against us each other</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Let us grow a garden of awareness</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>And feed the world with the food our garden grew</div></div></div>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3400249923751539274.post-40436576274216024632009-10-09T18:00:00.000-07:002009-10-09T18:05:30.510-07:00I Wrote A Good Omelet<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUe-EO2-zgB0SfFXldAIuBQAAehNJc_QzdUEt55E5jn0W5pVxya-nAZbUt3ufsUJqTV9HkdV8g-ayheXXjD6EmDx4NZClG6pOeGlHC_VbS8I6l_Th1rq1UiNuJsC8gNNH05Gwsdehoyw0/s1600-h/Nikki_Giovanni.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390770771485154978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 306px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUe-EO2-zgB0SfFXldAIuBQAAehNJc_QzdUEt55E5jn0W5pVxya-nAZbUt3ufsUJqTV9HkdV8g-ayheXXjD6EmDx4NZClG6pOeGlHC_VbS8I6l_Th1rq1UiNuJsC8gNNH05Gwsdehoyw0/s320/Nikki_Giovanni.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I Wrote A Good Omelet</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I wrote a good omelet...and ate a hot poem... </div><div>after loving you<br /></div><div>Buttoned my car...and drove my coat home..in the rain... </div><div>after loving you<br /></div><div>I goed on red...and stopped on green...</div><div>floating somewhere in between... </div><br /><div>being here and being there... </div><div>after loving you<br /></div><div>I rolled my bed...turned down my hair...</div><div>slightly confused but...I don't care...<br />Laid out my teeth...and gargled my gown...</div><div>then I stood ...and laid me down... </div><div>to sleep... </div><br /><div>after loving you </div><br /><div><br />Written by Nikki Giovanni</div>i.Amenihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842304342222790746noreply@blogger.com0