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Announcing 2 new radio talk shows in November

October 28, 2009 · Filed under On Writing, book talk, environment, love poetry, poetry, renewable energy, talk radio · Tagged , , ,

The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!

CALL IN# 712-338-8710, PIN 618#

WHEN: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

TIME: 2:30pm PST/ 3:30pm MST/ 4:30pm CST/ 5:30pm EST
 
(Please use the link given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.
Link to shows: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-DianeTegarden.htm
(A chat room is available during the show!)
OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS on November 3rd are: Alice Shapiro, Diane Tegarden, Lillian Brummet, and Cheryl Bousquet.

Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!

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The FireWalker Flare-An Environmental and Renewable Energy Solutions Talk Radio Show

Join Diane Tegarden as she engages Environmental and Renewable Energy Experts on the second Tuesday of each month
at 10am PST/11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour of riveting interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.

The call in number is # 712-338-8710 and the PIN is 618#. 
Visit the home page at: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-Firewalker.htm

On November 10th my guest will be Shawn Alvandi of LA Solar Energy, to discuss the bright future of solar power and environmentally friendly business. 

To read more environmental articles please visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner

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And the silence is deafening

October 19, 2009 · Filed under Nature/ the Earth, animals, environment, poetry · Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

And the silence is deafening
By Diane Tegarden
September 22, 2009
Once the Grove was filled with trees of huge dimension,
their lovely limbs interlaced to create a shady arbor,
an escape from life’s travails,
it offered both peace and meditation.

But decades pass and trees become over grown,
hung low with the weight of fruit from peach and orange
their blossoms fragrant
in spring and summer time.

The fire season looms large in our minds,
reminding us that the Eucalyptus and Oak,
Pepper tree and Palm,
will light up like torches and destroy our cozy home.

We are the caretakers of this Grove
with mighty Norfolk pine, and twisted Cypress.
We owe them a trimming to lighten their burdens.
Something must be done.

The Grove housed a cacophony of life;
the crows with their raucous caws,
the mockers with their never ending variety of calls,
the doves cooing gently, as hummers industriously buzzed blossoms,

myriad tiny birds twittered, as bees hummed from flower to flower,
the squirrels chittering away, vying for food
from the oaks and avocado,
as green waves of squawking parents raced overhead.

After the trees were trimmed
our yard was buried in debris,
the trees decimated with nary a branch
to lift their a lovely limbs to the sky.

The “arborists” were merely hacks, not tree artists,
but butchers with saws and knives.
Afterward I felt guilty
and sick with remorse.

Now, blunt burning sun
beats down on the hard packed ground
our lawn burned to cinders,
the trees barren and silent.

The life tortured out of all living things,
no birds sing and now,
the woodland creatures stir no more.
And the silence is deafening.

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Spoken Word and Interview announcements

September 19, 2009 · Filed under On Writing, book talk, poetry · Tagged , , , , ,

Come one, come all to the greatest show on Earth….your fellow Wordmeisters will be reading their poetry to you!

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Premier publisher with Nightengale Press Valerie Connelly will interview Diane Tegarden on her Global Talk Radio show “Calling All Authors”

on Tuesday September 22nd

at 2pm PST/3pm MST/4pm CST/5pm EST.

The call in number is 218-339-4300 and the PIN is 1002522#

The link to the show is: http://www.globaltalkradio.com/shows/callingallauthors

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I’m inviting YOU to a very special spoken word event:

The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!

CALL IN# 712-432-0080 PIN 1085212#

WHEN: Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

TIME: 2:30pm PST/3:30pm MST/4:30pm CST/5:30pm EST

(Please use the links given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
http://www.timeanddate.com/

Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.

Link to shows: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/Arch-DianeTegarden.htm (A chat room is available during the show!)
OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS on October 6th are: Ken Austin, Diane Tegarden, Marva Collins-Bush, Manohar Bhatia, and Zenobia

Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!

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May You Never Thirst!

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I disappeared today

September 14, 2009 · Filed under poetry · Tagged , ,

I disappeared today
by Diane Tegarden
02/05/09

I disappeared today
and I’m not sure
exactly when it happened.

I look at other people,
try to see their eyes,
try to make contact,
but they won’t look at me.

They sense I want something they can’t give
and they are ashamed.
Ashamed that they are frightened of me
ashamed they can’t look me in the face,
afraid that being alone and hungry is somehow
contagious.

They think that by ignoring me,
poverty will go away
or at least hope
that I will go away.
And they are ashamed.

But I have to ask,
I have to try to get them
to see me,
as an individual,
as a human being.

They won’t even read my sign,
they avert their eyes
or stare straight ahead.

I was erased today,
no one looked at me all day….

It’s as if I am not even here.

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Author’s Note: This is about the homeless people in our city, many who stand around at the freeway onramps, waiting for people to hand them some change.

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Tongues of Fire

August 31, 2009 · Filed under Nature/ the Earth, animals, poetry · Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Tongues of Fire
By Diane Tegarden
08/30/09
(Inspired by the wildfires burning in La Canada, FlintRidge and Altadena)

Tongues of fire
voraciously eating the hills alive
full of evil and ire.

Leaping flames reaching to the sky
leaving behind the skeletal remains
too many innocent die.

Squirrels, bobcats, deer and rabbits
huddle together in confusion
breaking taboos and old habits.

Columns of smoke belch ash and burnt leaves
wood buildings turned to cinder
the remnants, only lonely brick chimneys.

Fireplaces survive the devastation
where once the underbrush and forests ruled,
now a barren creation.

Acrid taste of wood smoke in the mouth, skin and hair
as the sky turns to orange
the universe warns, to beware.

It is not over yet
fires’ burning out of control,
with no signs of stopping, there is much to regret.

 

Author’s Notes:

A friend of mine, Jack Huber, has inspired me to attempt a more formal poem with an
a-b-a, c-d-c, etc. rhyme scheme. I started by writing my impressions of the fires in my ordinarily used free verse style, then went back to insert the lines that would complete the stanzas in a rhyme scheme (hoping that the meter isn’t too jarring!)

Diane Tegarden

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

August 10, 2009 · Filed under poetry · Tagged , , ,

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends

And before the street begins,

And there the grass grows soft and white,

And there the sun burns crimson bright,

And there the moon-bird rests from his flight

To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

And the dark street winds and bends.

Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

 And watch where the chalk-white arrows go

To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,

For the children, they mark, and the children, they know

The place where the sidewalk ends.

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Poets, you can always post a favorite author on Poetry Monday, as long as you credit them. I love Shel’s work, he had the imagination of a child with the vocabulary of a Rhodes scholar. He was simply brilliant, in every sense of the word.

To the Dance of Life! Diane T. and furfamily

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Calling all you storytellers, poets and bards to raise your voices

May 6, 2009 · Filed under love poetry, poetry · Tagged ,

A Celebration is in order!!!!

Calling all you storytellers, poets and bards to raise your voices, on the FIRST TUESDAY of every month with the “Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden’s Poetry Readings”!!

This wonderful spoken word radio talk show on Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio doesn’t have a particular theme, so we can book poets to read on your choice of topics, and if you’d like, you can be among the first guest poets for our Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 show.

To let me know if you’re interested in the show details and guest sign-in information, email me at: rosefirewalker@aol.com.

All Tuesday night Poetry Reading Show Dates for 2009: Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, 2009.

To hear a sample of our shows, you can go to: http://internetvoicesradio.com Click the Archives link, it will go to a list of show hosts, then click on Diane Tegarden, and it will jump to a list of archived shows that are available.

I’ve got an open roster so far, so if you sign up now, you’ll be sure to get your spot!

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Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time to be published in July!!

April 11, 2009 · Filed under Hopitu Shinumu culture, book talk, poetry, renewable energy, science fiction · Tagged , , , , , ,

I’m very proud to announce that I’m working with Cindy Clark on producing my sci-fi novel “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time”! She’s editing and designing the book, then it’ll be in the hands of Kristine Sheehan, my book cover designer. They are both members of Women Business Owners (I’ve been in the organization since 2006 and know their excellent work and fair prices), so I have complete trust that my team will make this book my best ever.

It’s all so exciting, I want “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time” to go to the top!! It should be out by July 1st and I can’t wait!!!

To The Dance of Life!

Energetically Yours, Diane Tegarden

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Weekly Goals for 02/15/09- May Love Find You Willing

February 15, 2009 · Filed under Women's History, general interest, poetry · Tagged , , , ,

My main goals this week:

exercise 3 times at CURVES.

finish travel plans to San Francisco to do some research on my next big book project “The Goddess Walks”.

finish inputting the inc from WBO docs.

gather more intel for the “31 Days of Notable Women” blog in March.

write presentation for Fanny Mendelssohn.

practice using Audacity software, so I can add audio files to my website.

call 5 hotels for info on the WBO 2010 Convention.

and of course…..

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HEAVILY PROMOTE MY FIRST “Radio Play”…………

I’m very excited about a brand new project I’m involved in with fabulous Blog Talk Radio Show Host Joy Judy Jones. She and I are cooking up a radio show “First Person Portraits of Women Artists” on

Saturday Feb. 21st at 5pm PST/ 6pm MST/ 7pm CST/ 8pm EST.

Call-in Number: (646) 929-1344

Link to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Judy-Joy-Jones-Show

It’s a first person presentation of eight virtually unacknowledged women artists who were brilliant sculptors, painters and composers; although these women were the contemporaries of such luminaries as Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin and Felix Mendelssohn, they have been unsatisfactorily unheralded for their contributions to the arts.

Joy Judy Jones, in her own words: “I have worked very hard in promoting opera composer Carla Lucero, a friend. I wrote an opera libretto on the life of painter Frida Kahlo and won a contest and presented part of the opera. Her husband, Diego Rivera (who had all the attention for his art while they lived) is living on because of Frida Kahlo; which is the last scene of our opera.”

We dedicate this first person show to them as a Valentine’s Day gift of love to these emotional, lustrous artists, without whom our world would be a less colorful place.

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I’m inviting YOU to a very special spoken word event:

The Storytellers, Poets and Bards of the World join Diane Tegarden, poetess and author, as she hosts monthly poetry readings on Internet Voices Radio with her gregarious guests!

LISTENERS CALL IN# 866-977-4887

WHEN: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

TIME: 2:30pm PST/ 3:30pm MST/ 4:30pm CST/ 5:30pm EST

For Nigeria it is at 23:30 pm
For India it is 4 am in the morning
(Please use the links given below for international time calculations)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
http://www.timeanddate.com/

Join us for a charming half-hour of unique poetry and author’s chat as Diane and her guests read you their poetry and discuss the larger social issues touching their lives.

WHERE: http://internetvoicesradio.com (A chat room is available during the show!)

OUR GREGARIOUS GUESTS ARE:

Date= Guest Names=

March 3rd = Nadyne Huber,,,, and IMAGINE YOUR NAME HERE!!!

Grab a cup of fair trade coffee or tea, sit back and relax. Take this break from your everyday world to enjoy the new vistas brought to you by these fresh, original poets!

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Join us for some GRRREEEAAATTTT Radio this coming weekend,
you’ll be invigorated and moved by the power of this presentation which we may develop into a one-act play later this year! YES YES YES!

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The Storm- lovers poetry for Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2009 · Filed under book talk, love poetry, poetry · Tagged , ,

The Storm (Oct 2000)
(dedicated to my husband Wade Webb)

Wind in the trees, whispering invitations
“come with me, pleeeease”
a sigh, then surrender,
she is willing.

The snake is coiled at the base of our souls
we charm her awake, tease her, then rock and roll,
in a riotous moment
we tumble into the storm.

A lightning bolt of energy rushes through my inner core
as the snake rises up and flies away,
reborn, a dragon of the sky.

While we ride the dragon upon that wild wind
we are high above all the demons of earth.

Too soon, we must wend our way back down,
the dragon will alight. We climb down.
Look around, I’ll be with you
in the calm
after
the storm.

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If you’d like to share more sexy poetry with your lover, go to my website and download my book “Light Through Shuttered Window” today! He’ll never know you forgot Valentine’s Day!!!

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