She Likes to Swallow Blood
I hold her tightly
While the darkness creeps in slowly.
My arms can’t protect her
From nightmares, her past,
And the clouds approaching
Laying restless from awaiting
Revelations. The ticking clock syncs
Our breath and tears.
Because she cries silently,
Weeping pillows wet
Is a haunt that makes me hold her firm
Never feeling her pain from the day before.
I never see the bruise and tears through the beauty
Of her smile. The.
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Where Art & Community Intersect
Architect Mark Lakeman stood inside Trinity Cathedral last month and spoke like a preacher — bringing a message of hope and inspiration to a capacity crowd of about 160 Clevelanders who came to hear him speak.
“Even though we are surrounded by so many disparaging stories, our hearts are still beating,” Lakeman said as he introduced the citizen-driven movement called City Repair that began in a Portland,.
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No comments Poetry Corner: Today
Today
Today I display happiness because yesterday taught me a lot.
Respectfully now I take one step at a time cautiously, I must say.
For me to get a second chance in society a question was asked, “Did I learn my lesson from the punishment I received?”
I reply, “No lesson have I learned, punished I was not.”
The only ones that were punished were my friends and family who.
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No comments Join the PULL!
SPACES, the artist William Pope.L, and citizens of Cleveland are teaming up this summer for PULL! — an extraordinary feat of shared labor.
PULL! is a durational, participatory city-wide community performance, in which hundreds of Clevelanders will manually pull a refurbished truck for three days, from June 7th to 9th, through the neighborhoods of North Collinwood, Glenville, University Circle, Hough, AsiaTown and downtown; to West Park, Clark-Fulton.
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No comments Local Student Brings Organ Donation Issue to Life
Animation is used just about everywhere in the world today. Normally, it is used as some form of entertainment. Chaz Bottoms, a senior at Benedictine High School, combined his love of animation with science, culture and his personal experiences to create an award-winning and provocative product with an important message for everyone.
Bottoms’ animation, "No-Ners: No Donors," beat out more than 900 other student submissions from almost 40.
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No comments Film Festival in Town
For the past 36 years, the Cleveland International Film Festival has been the premier film event in Ohio. Today, the CIFF presents more than 170 feature films and more than 160 short subject films from at least 60 countries.
Nearly 200 filmmakers and other special guests attend the film festival and hundreds of students participate in a mini-festival of CIFF films for high school students screened.
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No comments Community Poetry: Home is Where the Terror Exists
Home is Where the Terror Exists
I remember when
The terror crept in
From the back alley and
Occupied the living room.
Made her mind wicked
As the people watched her
Lose herself
Learned how to sing lullabies
With a wicked psychosis
From a lonely world.
Beatings and lies created the scramble
And a child was found outside
My window. Outside
With hands too small
To make a fist. Too young
Not to know how to love
And exists. Too innocent to.
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No comments Would You Pull an 8-Ton Truck for Cleveland?
William Pope.L wants to know: Would you pull an 8-ton truck for Cleveland?
And he really means it!
This June, in partnership with SPACES art gallery, internationally renowned artist William Pope.L will call on the people of Cleveland to manually pull an 8-ton truck across the city for three straight days.
William Pope.L is gathering photographs from people around Cleveland about their relationships with work. These photographs will.
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No comments Community Poetry: Listen/Silent
Listen/Silent
"... To everything there is a season, a time to keep silence ..." ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1 & 7
Six letters just the same,
L I S T E N = S I L E N T rearranged.
Hold your tongue, lend your ear
Hush
Hear.
~ Submitted by Minister Beverly C. Robinson
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No comments Bessie Had the Blues
The Cleveland Play House has always brought the area great entertainment and sometimes rapid history lessons, as well.
At the opening night of "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith," I learned about a different type of establishment that was available in the 1920s. It was called a “buffet flat” and is the setting in which the famous singer is introduced.
As Smith's story.
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No comments Poetry Corner: Uncle “Big Wheel” Loves Kryptonite
Uncle "Big Wheel" Loves Kryptonite
Uncle “Big Wheel” had two digits
On his right hand, A pinky and thumb.
He once was a heavyweight fighter,
With super powers and fist made of mortar
As children we watched him,
His superhuman strength battled to death
The evil that owned the streets, terrified nights.
Lips chapped and white,
Pupils wide and bright
Chasing the evasive
As children, we did not recognize
His addiction, antics and quiver.
We’d wonder why this.
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No comments Grassroots Leader Hosts Art Exhibit
Alanda Sales is a community leader who uses her passion for art and education to enrich the lives of youth in Greater Cleveland and the surrounding areas. She has volunteered for Network for Neighborhood Success, a leadership program for teens that started in the Buckeye neighborhood, and Discovering the Beauty Within, a program for girls held at the Woodhill Homes Community Center.
Sales has served the.
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No comments Play about Foreclosure Crisis Coming to CWRU
Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, or MSASS, is turning to theater arts and dialogue to help build awareness of the impact of the foreclosure crisis. The crisis has been — and continues to be — devastating for many families and communities.
MSASS will play host to the production of "CLOSURE" from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at CWRU's Strosacker.
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No comments What If …
I attended the very first "Cleveland Talks," a storytelling event for Grown Ups! This event was inspired and hosted by Itty Matthews, a Case Western Reserve University medical student I recently met.
It was wonderful to hear people share their personal stories about "rebirth." The stories ranged from near death experiences, supernatural encounters, personal awakenings that resulted from hardship, and a remarkable recovery despite a terminal.
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No comments Poetry Book Signing in University Circle
Poet Vladimir Swirynsky will be signing copies of his book, "Church of the Backyard Fire: Poems" at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 12 at the Case Western Reserve University Bookstore, 11451 Euclid Ave. just across from the new MOCA Cleveland. The book is a collection about Cleveland, the Midwest, neighborhoods, homelessness and Vietnam veterans.
~ Submitted by CWRU Bookstore.
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