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Place to write. en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:34:47 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly GotPoetry.com News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://gotpoetry.com/images/autoheader/logo-slogan.gif http://gotpoetry.com/ http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1733.htmlI found away Over the fear and through the flames I'm diving in, don't follow me Stay right here, I'll be back for you someday I found away It'd be best if you just stayed It's not safe, don't follow me I found away I found awayWednesday, July 23, 2008 (12:34:47)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1732.htmlI cant write anymore...I think I've officially run out of poems to write. :'(Tuesday, July 22, 2008 (15:42:46)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1731.htmlone dekkho at what the Indian fusion is likeTuesday, July 22, 2008 (05:35:03)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1730.htmlhey its only been like a year how have folks been, im back, upgraded and almost techno savy, fun fun funMonday, July 21, 2008 (23:42:03)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1728.htmlI finished reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl today . I go once a week to the library. I am waiting to take another book now. I want to finish reading all the books of Roald Dahl. Just a couple left. My mom's favorite is D for Dahl. She loves that book especially W for Witch balls. She keeps on reading that again and again and again...................Saturday, July 19, 2008 (07:58:00)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1727.htmlI was waiting for class to start when I decided to write these. I wanted to change my blog, so I'm putting them here: TIME Time stands still; _When hours would pass_ _It's just minutes_ Life is blissfully long, when you're in-love and the other Sin? I don't believe we're wrong _Love shouldn't have a toll_ It's not a sin _Or God wouldn't love_ Sorry, my logic is flawed _Or God wouldn't kill_ ~ZThursday, July 17, 2008 (21:24:00)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1726.htmlJust back from a poetry "slam". I put it in quotes because it wasn't a real slam. A woman who worked at the store and another woman judged one round of poems and chose a winner. It was their first time holding one though and they managed to have seven people reading, so they were doing fine. And I shouldn't complain. I won, or "co-won" in that they decided it was a tie.Thursday, July 17, 2008 (01:57:00)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1725.htmlYesterday my cellphone fell out of my pocket in my car. I parked and was walking to the train and noticed it wasn't on my person, so I assumed I left it at home. I have a pocket PC phone with internet access, so I do a lot of my web reading while I ride. No big deal, I just grabbed the Boston weekly and read that. On the way home I had nothing to read because I was running late and wasn't able to grab a paper. I did have a notebook and tried to write a new poem but that wasn't going well, so I ended up falling asleep for the first time ever on the train. I missed my stop. I woke up, the train was empty and I had no idea where I was. Outside the windows everything was foreign. The graffiti and gang tags were new and bigger. Bolder. There was lots more trash. I had slept through the South Attleboro stop and was on my way to Providence. I had no phone, not cash money in my wallet. So I had to walk to the mall, get some cash and then call my wife collect to come pick me up and drive me back to my car. I felt rested though.Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (14:27:54)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1724.htmlThis site is very user mean. I've been trying all day to post one video. It is not happening. Who has time for this defeat. Life is too short. I do not see where an account can be closed. So I just won't come back. It was a great idea. It just doesn't work.Sunday, July 13, 2008 (02:28:23)http://gotpoetry.com/Blogs/display/mode=display/id=1723.htmlOne of my favorite thirty-second pastimes is to click on major websites for books and find out which titles customers are purchasing in addition to a specific book of my own. I was particularly curious about what the results might be in regard to ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love, my newly published gift book of art, essays, and poetry with internationally acclaimed artist Luther E. Vann. I visited Barnes and Noble online to find out what kind of company ELEMENTAL was keeping and smiled at the surprise waiting for me. Customers who’d bought ELEMENTAL had also purchased Wall and Piece by Banksy, described as “Britain’s most wanted artist.” This association in particular raised my eyebrows because I just learned about the “notorious” Banksy, a very public artist whose actual identity is unknown, a few months ago when the news program 60 Minutes featured a profile of his work. Huh, wasn’t that something? The four other titles listed among those picked up by readers of ELEMENTAL included: A Flair for Living, by Charlotte Moss; Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte; How to Draw What You See, by Rudy De Reyna; and Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer. All of these titles made me grateful to see mine in their company but I was especially tickled to see it hanging out with a book flagging the name of Marcel Proust, one of the increasingly great figures of French and world literature. The synopsis of Proust Was A Neuroscientist describes the book as one that boldly examines parallels between the artistic and scientific personality, illustrating how “willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect.” Obviously, the author has caught my attention and this is a book I look forward to reading. Considering that it took all of seventeen years for the idea of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, to develop into a complete and published book, it’s inspiring to see it simultaneously keeping company with a modern maverick visual artist like Banksy and a classic literary artist like Proust. ELEMENTAL may be purchased at the following locations: Barnes and Noble Black Books Plus The Diaspora Market Place (912-232-2626) The Jepson Center Gift Shop (912-790-8831) The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum (912-231-8900) by Aberjhani author of ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance URL LINKS FOR ELEMENTAL: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Elemental/Luther-E-Vann/e/9780972114271/?itm=12 http://www.blackbookplus.com/Elemental_The_Power_of_Illuminated_Love.asp http://www.diasporamarketpl.comSaturday, July 12, 2008 (18:34:00)