04 Saturday May 2013
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https://soundcloud.com/bondax/annie-mac-minimix-extended-7
Shit, this mini mix recorded for the Annie Mac show on BBC is nothing but pure genius. With a 29 song tracklist in 7 minutes it makes this mix incredibly creative and original, this two teens have it all.
04 Saturday May 2013
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book reviews, global concerts, Istanbul, jazz, jazz poetry, jazz poets, Joss Stone, music events, photography, poetry reviews, Turkey
Singer Joss Stone rockin’ the International Jazz Day Global Concert in Istanbul, Turkey. (photo by Mahmut Ceylan)
Anybody familiar with the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance just released in a Kindle Edition knows the Quotable Poet wrote the article about jazz in the book. And if you know that then you probably weren’t surprised to see his review of the International Jazz Day Global Concert titled World-class Musicians Honor Turkey’s Long Relationship with Jazz. Google News checked it out and added it to their net-wide news feed. Before the global concert, he published Jazz Harlem Renaissance Babydoll as part of a series for Poem in Your Pocket Day.
With all that hot jazz going down we couldn’t resist featuring one of the QP’s jazz poems for the Quotable Poem for the Month of May (even though Jazz Appreciation Month was April). In her review of The Bridge of Silver Wings (now called The River of winged Dreams) British novelist Rosy Cole wrote this about the poem: “As well as the melting-pot of traditions and civilisations, there is a blurring of the boundaries of the senses. We tend to identify them singly but we know they don’t function alone. In Sunday Afternoon and the Jazz Angel Cometh, they seem to coincide in an orgasmic reunion which not only celebrates life but redeems it.”
It’s a jazz poem that rocks big time. One favorite quote from it is “Your skin is human-hued and tiger-striped. Your software likes the contradiction.” File that one maybe under indigo children, biracial peeps, or world population statistics.
Sunday Afternoon and the Jazz-Angel Cometh
One arm is a crystal-blue saxophone,
the other a platinum-feathered keyboard—
yours is the music that colors our dreams.
Sunday afternoon and the jazz angel cometh
tap-dancing philosophies of the drum-roll
over a bebop-stay-cool bridge of silver wings.
As history bleeds forbidden light
thunder-heavy tears drip flavored adagios,
splash and explode into champagne solos.
The sacred mystery of improvisation
is hatred’s final aesthetic reconciliation
to the fact of love shining forever supreme.
Your skin is human-hued and tiger-striped.
Your software likes the contradiction.
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
Broken-hearted volcanoes sob your rhythms
as midnight flowers blossom your blues and
between their fingers prophets snap lightning to the beat.
In the center of time’s thorny labyrinth there you are––
naked you swallow quasars and spit raw genius,
cook your poems fresh, make music, make sense, make life.
by Aberjhani
(from The River of Winged Dreams)
post by MS/25
25 Monday Mar 2013
Posted in Aberjhani, Famous Quotes by Famous Authors, Lists, Poetry, Quotable Poets, Quotations, Quotes
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Aberjhani, classic quotes by classic authors, contemporary poets, Ekphrastic poems, famous, Jaanika Talts, List, Listing, National Poetry Month, New Poems by Aberjhani, Poem in Your Pocket Day, poems for National Poetry Month, Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day, popular poets, popular quotes, quotes of the day, quotes of the week, Rainer Maria Rilke, Realms of Emerging Light
Remember that scene from the play Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams when a woman talks about a great poet who’s been working on 1 poem for something like 20 years? That woman was serious.
Nobody here is going to say the Quotable Poet has slowed down anywhere near that much because with 4 published books of poetry (so far) you can say he averages a lot more than 1 every 20 years. But the man himself admitted in a recent Facebook status update that the number of his poems (shared on the Internet anyway) have been more like a trickle than a flow.
True this is: once released, they usually hit with enough punch to make you feel like it was worth the wait. But keeping up with the different online venues can be a pain. So instead of a single poem of the month for April, here’s a National Poetry Month 2013 round-up list of the NEWEST poems we could find posted from 2009 to 2013. It kicks off with the most recent slammer, Realms of Emerging Light.
Quotable Poet National Poetry Month 2013 Round-up
1) Realms of Emerging Light first published March 17, 2013 with article Sensualized Transcendence Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts.
2) The Consecrated Soul of Whitney Houston published February 2012 in the Notebook on Black History Month Series.
3) Summer-Song Rhapsody for Michael Jackson Editorial with Poem published August 19, 2012.
4) How Poets and Words Burn Truth into Love in commemoration of the first 100 Thousand Poets for Change event September 1, 2011.
5) Nuclear Snow in Japanese Springtime published March 25, 2011, in National African American Art Examiner column following tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan.
6) “A Poet Is a Clinton D. Powell” a.k.a. Poem for a Poet published January 6, 2011 in Connect Savannah.
7) Valentine Winter: A Mink-warm Distance Between Decades published on Red Room December 11, 2009 and also on AuthorsDen.
8) The Poetess Inside Her Years published October 28, 2009 in honor of Portuguese poet Alexandra OneLight
If anybody come up with more than these then please holla!
MS/25
14 Thursday Mar 2013
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Aberjhani, Adam Lambert, celebrities on Twitter, LL Cool J, National Poetry Month, popular quotes, popular tweets, Twitterverse, World Poetry Day
Preview cover of “Dare to Love Yourself as If You Were a Rainbow” book of quotations by Aberjhani. (Cover courtesy of Bright Skylark Literary Productions)
Nobody here is going to say they didn’t see a QP book of quotes in the works because this blog has kind’a been SUGGESTING THAT for the past 2 years at least. The only real surprise with the announcement from Bright Skylark Literary Prods is that the book’s not a done deal already. Check it out: The Buzz on the Pages in Progress
The cover is kickin’ but is this one a permanent deal or what? The title is a big surprise that makes a lot of sense because that one quote has become such a viral standard. The tweets from Adam Lambert and LL Cool J put it even more out there than it already was.
The always cool LL Cool J sharing love with the Twitterverse.
The story doesn’t say anything about when the book might happen. What it is claiming is that the book will have more quotes by the QP than you can find on the Internet on sites like Ranker and Dominus (strange how none of his quotes are on BrainyQuote or ThinkExist… anybody know what’s up with that?)
The thing about the increased number of quotes could be possible. But the bet some are making is that the book itself is going to have a lot more than quotes and do a show and tell on why one quote in particular became the title of the book.
Glam prince Adam Lambert showing Tweeters some love.
MS/25
18 Monday Feb 2013
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Aberjhani, angel poems, Black History Month, haiku poetry, Han Chinese, Hong Kong, International authors, International Poets, literary translations, microblogging, National Poetry Month, photography, poetry translations, World Poetry Day
(Sculpture of musical angel seraphs from “hkdcsh” photography blog)
Check out Google search results for translations of titles by the Quotable Poet and you get big numbers on product pages selling his books in different countries but what you don’t get are translated editions of the books themselves shifted from English to anything else. For the man who founded of Creative Thinkers International and an author with the world’s best-selling Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance that seems kind’a odd. But that’s the way it is and anybody who knows different can comment or email and break the news to us.
But on the flip side…translated quotations, essays, poems, and articles by QP Aberjhani keep piling up on the Internet. You can find quotations from his work in everything from Arabic and French to German and Korean and some of everything else. But the spotlight at the moment is on translations for two of his angel poems: Angel of Earth Days and Seasons, and Angel of Peace. If you clicked those links you saw Han Chinese translations by Hong Kong bloggers (not to be confused with espionage hackers talked about on the news) on the Qing and Sina microblogging networks.
Screenshot of microblogger Han Chinese translation of “Angel of Earth Days and Seasons.”
There’s a big Asian tradition of writing and reading haiku so that might be why they’re into these poems right now but it could also be because the QP makes a good Black History Month subject. What’s really interesting is how different bloggers are dishing out their own translated versions instead of just re-blogging a single post. This is another one for: Angel of Earth Days and Seasons .
PART 2 King of Pop Michael Jackson
Probably the first time anybody translated an online piece by the Quotable Poet was right after King of Pop Michael Jackson’s death when the QP posted “To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson’s Moccasins.” That jam ended up in all kinds of global vernaculars, including Greek, Romanian, French, Italian, and maybe a lot more.
It don’t take much to figure out it mostly had to do with the fact that up until then not a whole lot of well-known authors were publishing positive articles about MJ. Quotable Poet Aberjhani made it personal and set a lot of records straight in the process. He kept that going through a series of articles and poems, including Work and Soul in Michael Jackson’s This Is It and Looking at the World Through Michael Jackson’s Left Eye. Translations of these a couple of years ago were mostly in Spanish and German but they used to be around in Italian and Portuguese too.
Screenshot of Hong Kong microblogging page featuring Han Chinese translation of angel haiku poem by African-American author Aberjhani.
Post by MS/25
02 Saturday Feb 2013
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Authors on Wordpress, Facebook, Internet Authors, Internet Poets, Pinterest, quote of the day, quote of the month, quote of the week, Social media, Valentine's Day
February 2013 Quote of the Month: “This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.” ––Aberjhani (from The River of Winged Dreams)
It’s not surprising that more and more websites like Peaceism.com are extracting themed quotations from work by Quotable Poet. That happens when a writer pumps out material in different literary forms the way he does. But since we’re stepping up into February, the month of Valentine’s Day, now seems like a good time to blow up his romantic side. The thing is, it’s never as simple as all that when it comes to the QP Aberjhani.
In this for instance, when it comes to romance he seems to mix and match erotic flavor with spiritual passion. We know some of that come from classic Sufi poet influences and some from his own life story. What’s interesting though is how readers and artists online usually choose to blow up the spiritual interpretation, although when you go through books like Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black you find a lot to flip over on the erotic side. A lot of webmeisters find images that do justice to both.
These are 3 images from different bloggers on Pinterest and Facebook using the same quote–“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”– to make their individual points. Cool, right?
From Cultural Unity Working Together posted on Pinterest.
From Mental Dialogue & Hope for African shared on Facebook.
From Present Journeys posted on Facebook.
MS/25
07 Monday Jan 2013
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art on the Internet, classic quotes by classic authors, digital art, famous quotes by famous people, fun quotes, illuminated pages, inspirational quotes, poets on the Internet, positive motivation, quote of the day, quote of the month, quote of the week, Quote: Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends by Aberjhani, rainbows, The Poet of the Rainbow
(Original image and quote post by Rough Art on Facebook)
Call him maybe The Poet of the Rainbow. What would you say this quote means to you: “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” Do an advanced Google search on something like the middle words, “you were a rainbow with gold”, then click on the image search and you’ll see how a lot of people use it in a lot of different ways.
Some check it out for personal self-esteem, some as firepower against the urge to suicide yo’self or somebody else, or as a pep talk for horses and giraffes (no kidding, check out photos on Flickr and Facebook). Super diva model Iman posted just the words on her Twitter and Facebook pages. 
Princess Theodora von Auersperg ran it with a tree of gold symbols on her FB page but she also had a lot of other quotes by QP Aberjhani. 
You might think the Quotable Poet would have done a blog or something about all this by now but looks like we’ll be WAITING ON THAT for a while. Lucky for him most bloggers point out that the quote is from his book The River of Winged Dreams and seem even tell you it’s from the Angel of Healing: for the Living, the Dying and the Praying. So instead of a 2013 January Poem of the Month we’ve collected a few of the most outstanding arty images that bloggers and graphic artists have either created themselves or used to show what the quote means for them. Links will be pasted below the image if they’re still available.
Posted on BeliefNet
Posted at Diamond and Light
Posted by FOR BROWN GIRLS
Posted by The Pearl Buddha on Facebook
Posted by Soul Speaking on Facebook
by MS/25
31 Monday Dec 2012
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american poet, cosmic consciousness, Facebook, Happy New Year, heart power, Pinterest, Politics, quote of the day, quote of the week, quotes, quotes of the year, state of consciousness, Tumblr, Twitter
Google Authors Most Frequently Mentioned on the Web 2012 Sear Result.
If we include a certain QP quote about rainbows in this list, that quote would end up at the top like it did last year because of all the phenomenal images that bloggers have matched it with. And because so many on Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter have posted it by itself. So instead of including it in THIS LIST, we’re going to do a separate post showing some of the best images used to illustrate the quote. If the viral roll keeps on going like it is, some people might start calling the Quotable Poet “The Poet of the Rainbow.” Makes you wonder how those readers would feel who call him “A Poet of the Angels.”
The images you see in this list are just some of the ones used with these particular quotes by the QP Aberjhani. We’re not saying they’re better than any of the others, they just happen to be particularly well liked. Anyhows, here’s the countdown of the Top 5 from 2012 with links to the original posts if they’re still available:
5. The longer the Afghanistan war and the bomb-tossing in the Middle East goes on the more people post this quote: “Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same… Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. “ –from The American Poet Who Went Home again posted on FB by Cosmic Consciousness:
4. Gotta full disclosure correct myself about this quote at number 4 because I said in another blog that one of the lines was wrong but turns out two versions are in the novel. The image is from the Healing the Planet 2012 page on Facebook.
“Oh what a wonderful soul
so bright inside you.
Got power to heal
the sun’s broken heart,
power to restore
the moon’s vision too.”
–Aberjhani, from Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
3. “Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.” –from The River of Winged Dreams and shared on Twitter and FB by Judge Greg Mathis: https://twitter.com/JudgeGregMathis/status/263303896703852544
2. Nobody was surprised when this quote turned up as a lot of people’s quote of the day or quote of week during the presidential election: “The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come, is to determine which hearts, minds, and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.” –Aberjhani, from Illuminated Corners, Collected Essays Vol. 1. Posted by the QP on Goodreads at http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/403013-the-job-facing-american-voters-in-the-days-and-years
1. “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.” From the poem “Holiday Letter for a Poet Gone to War” in the book Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black. Image posted by Recovery Support at http://denverrecoverysupport.weebly.com/elements.html
So some blogfesters already have different lists up with some of these quotes in different positions but that’s swaggin too. Happy New Year!
MS/25
31 Monday Dec 2012
Posted in Quotable Poets, Quotations, Quotes
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. This is MS/25, the Silver Surfer’s long lost twin, saying thank you and a new post on the 5 Best Quotes of 2012 is coming up in just a few minutes.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,700 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.
11 Tuesday Dec 2012
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(2013 royalty free artwork courtesy of Dreamstime)
Why so late posting the Quotable Poet December Poem of the Month? The answer’s pretty good. It’s because rumor had it that the Bright Skylark crew was about to release a new video for the poem Holiday Letter for a Poet Gone to War by QP Aberjhani. It seemed like a standard brilliant idea to wait until the video dropped and spotlight a link to it in this post but hey, guess what?
You got it, the video didn’t happen. And since it went down like that we decided to have some holiday fun with this month’s poem, “A Friend Like a Drunk Poem on New Year’s Eve.” Most of the quotes you see by the QP around the web lean on the heavy side and if you went by just those you wouldn’t think he knows how to laugh. Truth is he’s got poems and stories on the comic side plus the other side. So for this go-round we’re flipping the happy holiday switch. This one’s from The River of Winged Dreams complete with the quote by French surrealist poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Check out the reference to “MySpace” instead of Facebook or Tumblr. Wassup with that?
A Friend Like a Drunk Poem on New Year’s Eve
“The air is filled with strangely human birds.”––Guillaume Apollinaire,
from The New Spirit and the Poets
1.
Your wife calls. Asks me to take your keys,
make you stay here tonight. She refuses
your refusal to leave the world to its chosen pains.
Long ago I stopped trying to convince you
that your hands are not roadside bombs.
Your tears not rapists. Your arms not starving children.
2.
You say you feel like a woman who can’t stop giving birth.
Like a man just discovering he is worthy of love.
Like heat surfing dream-waves of burning cosmic intention.
I consider how the syllables of your soul have never
hung my imperfections from a gallows of public
scrutiny while wallowing in the gigglings of neurotic tapeworms.
3.
Your lines style splendor in cashmere meters.
Your rhymes pulse quasars of quantum compassion.
There is no sacred love your pen will not kiss, pray for, or heal.
Forty-eight thousand friends subscribe to your blog on MySpace.
They are witty with you, get horny too, and sometimes sublime.
But know nothing of the nightmares you puke on my shoes.
4.
At midnight your wife calls again. Says Happy New Year
and she will still love you sometime tomorrow after lunch.
Tells me I am not a bad poet and an even better friend.
At the end of “Auld Lang Syne” you open more champagne.
I take a hard deep breath to scold you for your weakness.
We hiccup at the same time, and hum in harmony as if on cue.
poem by Aberjhani (from The River of Winged Dreams)
blogpost by M/S 25
