Victoriously we decided to win
When we trashed all the paradox and
Looked at the brightness around us
Where we can test freedom and love
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Marin Poetry Center contributors to the latest anthology will be reading from their works.
Contributors include:
Mahnaz Badihian, Ellen Bass, Karen Benke, Claire Blotter……..
Mafia of Love
by; Mahnaz badihian
When I wake up
Sleeplessness grabs me
And my presence in its early rhythm
Is a thousand years old
When the Sun shines, my stretched legs
Pass through the universe
And the border of tomorrow
With the glowing anklet of human kisses
I feel my simple crowded brain
Is at ease enough to ignore
All the old beliefs that hindered
Human happiness
And cell phones with repeated SMS
Have a line that connect us to the world
Close enough to laugh at a lost planet
My dear, it is an excuse when you say
You are a simple cave man
Living in far off lands
While your Ears, your brain
Your wisdom is connected
To neighborhoods of the Whitehouse
To the streets of Florence
And it’s Mafia of love
Victoriously we decided to win
When we trashed all the paradox and
Looked at the brightness around us
Where we can test freedom and love
With the messages of SMS
in the little rooms of internet
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Tue Sep 30 7 pm: Featured Poets from Marin Poetry Anthology 2008
Marin Poetry Center contributors to the latest anthology will be reading from their works.
Contributors include:
Mahnaz Badihian, Ellen Bass, Karen Benke, Claire Blotter, Barbara Swift Brauer, Brian R. Buckley, Yvonne Cannon, R.J. Carroll, Thomas Centolella, Claudia Chapline, Charselle, Morley Clark, Susan Cohen, Bill Eichhhorn, Donna L. Emerson, Ella Eytan, Laurel Feigenbaum, CB Follett, Rebecca Foust, Ann Garrett, Jennifer Gennari, Terry Hamilton-Poore, Jennifer E. Hewitt, Martin Hickel, Cary James, Heidi Joseph, Helen Kerner, Oskar Klausenstock, M.D., S. E. La Moure, Priscilla ·`Lee, Robin Lee, Joyce Livingston, Cesar Love, Diana A. Lyster, Lily Iona MacKenzie, Roy Mash, Ethel Mays, Mark Meierding, Charlotte Melleno, Adam David Miller, Donna J. Mussato, Gloria North, Steve Olian, David O’Neal, Kate Peper, Terry Phelan, Daniel Polikoff, Connie Post, Yvonne Postelle, Angelika Quirk, Alan Ruskin, Kay Ryan, Bruce Sams, Sandy Scull, Prartho Sereno, Cathryn Shea, Carol Sheldon, Anne Bacon Soulé, Pru Starr, Doreen Stock, Mary Kay Sweeney, Phyllis M. Teplitz, Susan Terris, Sara Tolchin, Malcolm Vickar, Julia Vose, Jeanne Wagner, Sim Warkov, Thomas Watson, Jocelyn Werner, Judith Horowitz Yamamoto, Joseph Zaccardi.
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