Lisa or Li

Will Smith just went OFF!

I’m sure you’ll read about or hear the buzz tomorrow, but at the Academy Awards tonight, presenter Chris Rock dissed Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith for her health condition, alopecia, by calling her GI Jane. That’s about as bad as the orange one heckling the reporter with sunglasses on many moons ago now. Only tonight, Will…

A thousand beating hearts. — Writing Whatnots

I read this poem by Marion Horton today and felt compelled to share it. Real or contrived? I cannot tell.Questioning all that I now see. Metaphors dangle overhead –like a child’s mobile.My pen reaches up to hook one –drag it onto the page. But which? The soft one, sewn of felt and love,which shares its…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 27 – Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand 1965 Barbara Joan Streisand (b. 4/24/42,) known professionally as Barbra Streisand, is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Streisand began her career by…

TSM 204 — Sunglowed

Sentenced explosions, smoke, and wailing finds my spirit drifting away to the day we walked among sunflowers. He, ahead, turned and sat, smiling, sunglowed, amidst a world of balanced peace. Today’s offering is in the nonet form. top image: Carrie found this inspiring image via our fellow Muser & friend Sherry. 🤩 Carrie is the…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 26 – Potty Mouth (Ally Einbinder, Phoebe Harris, Abby Weems, Victoria Mandanas, and also later Ali Donohue for 2014; and Kate Meizner as “touring musician”)

Potty Mouth. photo from The Fader Slapping the riot grrrl label on us just because we happen to be women playing a type of music that happens to be reminiscent of another era in time seems like a lazy conflation. — Ally Einbinder Potty Mouth was an American pop rock band, formed in Western Massachusetts,…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 25 – Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin, From Wash D.C 1995 “earth day “photo by John Mathew Smith For $30 I played four 45-minute sets. –Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin (b. Shawna Lee Colvin on 1/10/56,) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award-winning…

dVerse — Poetry Form — Goodnight and Sweet Dreams and OLW 111

Pastel pink morn long fades to dusk- tethered incense smoke drifts — in dreams of boats. Sail-wings lift me from blue to black silver-glittered night, to islands on maps. Touch stone planets not found awake where cradled messages sleep, wait to sing. They leap and wriggle, imbued fish, unlocked clues that school, follow me home…