(Cacique, Chimana Grande)

(Chief Chimana taking a nap, see him there... lying down)

La locha was a Venezuelan coin worth 12 and 1/2 cents minted from 1896 to 1969. It went out of circulation with all the booms and busts but has remained in the popular lexico… Read full post »

Some of you OS-ers might be interested in this:

Open Salon "Keka" (Cynthia Dagnal-Myron) interviewed today by Amy Goodman and Juan González.

link to Democracy Now interview http://www.democracynow.org/

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Well done Keka!

Saludos ~ 

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 ~ to the memory of Migdalia Salazar 19-06-63 ~ 02-12-2011

    daughter of Fermin (captain of the "Rocinante")

 ... if you want fatherland fish

*come with me...!

¡Feliz Año Amigas y Amigos!

images©w. gentieu 2011

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comes the most beautiful realization of a wish...
a wish of three years desire
Ro… Read full post »

(a star... almost Kim,  full moon over the mast)

sails

I never get tired of how beautiful they are, and what they do..........

and how they do it
the language they use to connect me with something so full of

promise and power and possibility

(velas de navidad...… Read full post »

Sometimes..................

A dear friend, German writer, Tina Uebel, captured this image on the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas (where, reputedly, Mr. Columbus first set foot in the... hahaha, New World).

We had anchored there (some 20+ year… Read full post »

Socalypso Diva, Megan Walrond, covering John Lennon's

 "Imagine"

"I wanted to do something to support the people of the world who are struggling against oppression and for peace, bread and justice." –Megan

Play song link to:  "Imagine" cover by Megan Walrond… Read full post »

famosa por su clandestinidad

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Who?

 #   #   #   #   #

Somebody Blew Up America ~ Amiri Baraka, Riverside Church, New York 

September 9, 2011

Saludos ~ Poetas: "poetry has remained pure danger" - Ion Caraion 

Youtube upload by - AllThingsHa… Read full post »

  yesterday...

yesterday...

she only wanted... 

some attention...

or she might start to swirl...

silk robes, a satin cage...

she rode the waves... 

all the way...

to Play… Read full post »

¿Qué Más Quieres?

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Guitarist ~ Shotaro Nakamura (?)

Composer ~ Shinichi Kobayashi

Thank you ~ Keiko Alvarez

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Chinchorro ~ Orinoco Delta 

About ten years after having taken a dive off the bridge of my self... and staying submerged... for a while... while the world heralded the (new!) millenium...

Well, let's say, I'm not sure how they found me, but I'm glad they did, my/… Read full post »

I want to
insert my fingers between the lines

and pull
some of the white space, into the foreground

I want more leg
and thigh, more heat, although, perhaps, it's already in there

in fact, I'm sure that it is
but still, I want

to break away a part of… Read full post »

I almost missed

that tiny Coptic cross

tattoo...

that "néne"

from the lush back pages

of the Daily dread,

the worm, casually wrapped up

in newsprint

and bird pepper.

But

caught it then,

even as the bridesmaid

caught the flowers...

through a… Read full post »

Saludos friends, please use the link to go to this tremendous discussion between Julian Assange and Slavoj Zizek, moderated by Amy Goodman that just recently terminated at the Frontline in London. In which, among other things Assange makes the claim that the New York Times h… Read full post »

Lecture fragment: Slavoj Zizek (Slovenian Philosopher)

Youtube upload ~ radekk76

And so on and so forth... as Slavoj would say.

Both Entities in question (let's call them, for the sake of a randomly constructed argument [T] and [L] ) have much to examine about the… Read full post »

i.

you are simply a bit tired,

a bit — dehydrated,

as molecule by molecule

the water has left you,

not even a single word

you have thought,

for a long time,

for lack of humid air;

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Fell in love with this show while living in Ireland. Who better than the Irish to put things in perspective hmmm?

(Funny picture should go "here" but since OS has a virus ~ or... what shall we call it... ^%&$#?... so anyway, no picture)

Father Ted loses a… Read full post »

i.

it was

like a severe concussion

a fragrant flower forever imploding

a brilliant blue iris

from which a moist tear never unfolded

it was

a bold swipe of mascara

on a bundle of delicate organs

a tempest battered cove

of bruised frangipani petals,

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Jump onto the BIG TRUCK!!!!!!!!!!

Machel Montano & Xtatic ~ Trinidad Soca: Youtube upload courtesy rasadam

little truck image ~ Linda Seccaspina

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Fukushima

A flowering of skin,

Cherry blossom. Tsunami. 

In a green field, a broken harp. 

On a field of white, a blood red sun. 

Man must squint and take another look  

Saint Patrick.  "The mice will glow, strictly

For science".*

Video ~ A… Read full post »

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary.... Oh Hillary ~

So, considered rhetorically ~ ...does this mean that US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, is openly admitting that the US government (past and present) has been involved in an ongoing, covert conspiracy with… Read full post »

(We are both animists but neither one of us knows why)

~ He requested I withhold his name ~

Something there is that loves ephemera... 

Even if it doesn't love a wall.

images©w. gentieu 2011 

Desperta… Read full post »