Category Archive: Poetry
This song and video are truly heart-rendering and reach the human soul in ways few songs ever do. Keedron Bryant a 12-year-old boy so eloquently expresses the pain, fear, and rage of an entire race of people suffering under the inhumane racism against black people in America and around the planet. Keedron Bryant will be …
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This is one of my favorite songs in the world. Leila and I would sing it each night with our guests, when we closed our FM radio show, on WQQQ103.3fm. Most Americans over 50 might remember this song, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Hope you enjoy it. I wish all of my readers’ Happy …
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March 7, 2019
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Devil’s Breath was created several days after 9/11/2001. The backdrop was the first tribute ceremony in New York City to honor the 3000 lives lost by the attack on the World Trade Center. It was a terrible event in American History that changed the world and destroyed the Middle East and U.S relations ever …
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I created this video in May of 2011. I was inspired to capture on film the Spring beauty around me. This video was created from individual photographs of May Flowers that grew in my flower gardens that Spring, and the pink crab apple tree in my front yard, that always blossomed on my birthday …
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This is the second part of a 2 part interview. The first part unfortunately is lost to history. This program was recorded shortly after Christopher had returned from Iraq in 2/2003, to secure visas and passports for Iraqis trying to escape from the threatened invasion, one month before the invasion of Iraq and the “Shock …
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This three volume musical video was a compilation created in 2006 for the L.A.Steel Show as a musical documentary featuring artists in their live festival performances. Our interviews and recorded performances of indigenous flute player Joe Firecrow and blues artist Clarence Gatemouth Brown are very rare, and both passed away. Joe died early this year …
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How horrible to all who wish to live, when the loss of all desire reaches into our souls, we can not deny its power, or our weakness to resist. It over shadowed someone today, a helpless young woman left delirious in her final hours fighting the demons of hopelessness ravaging her deteriorating mind and body. …
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Come with me to an alternate reality. The Other Side is a trans-dimensional journey that expands the mind to see the other side of this reality. L.A.Steel Share
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This video can also be viewed with the text, by going to Cantos of a Believer in the Header Menu of this website. Share
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Musicians are the frontline soldiers of the world changing revolution now in progress. Artists, writers and all other activists are the second lines of the world wide revolutionary attack against the enemies of Humanity. Support all musicians, people around the world must hear the music of revolution, before they can see the vision or read …
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In a world without reason chaos rules. The betrayal of all you are and represent becomes scandal. No one can approach the light of fame without being blinded and burned. That I learned to sing and dance and play an instrument meant little to my development. I can sing a song , I can …
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Hurricanes howl as I climb the highest tower to observe the sight and sounds of angels crashing. The storm surge rises to historic heights as the damaged sea is without water. The great ocean of power and punishment against mankind and all living things storms against the ancient shores of Elysium and Heaven but can …
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I wrote this poem in the Spring of 2001, and first published it in The Voice News Paper that year and published it in my book of poems, Cantos of a Believer, displayed on this website, see the top menu. I wish the world a wonderful Spring. L.A. Steel THE SPRING, …
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I watched Donald Trump’s speech this morning and was amused by him as I usually am during his live speeches. No matter what anyone says about him, he does get his message across, for example when he says ,”We want them the hell out of here!” Trump was in his element at CPAC, these were …
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No other flower portrays the passion of the heart. A rose is protected by thorns. A Transcending Rose is a spirit ascending, to the highest heights of Heaven. L.A. Steel Share
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Crocuses and daffodils are having a hard April. The early frost and late snow stunted their growth. Yellow and white rows of waving daffodils do not adorn my garden this year. As I looked at the snow on rows of unbloomed flowers I noticed three white and two yellow daffodils and one white …
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I parked on River Road, overlooking the water, It was night, the river was flowing under the recent snowfall. I slept in a quilt, under my closed skylight. I listened to rock and. roll on the radio. The full moon showed blindingly through my windshield, reflecting against the silver hood. L.A. Steel …
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NIKKI AND MARCO WERE SITTING IN A TREE, WHEN NIKKI SAID,”‘ I LOVE YOU MARCO”, MARCO REPLIED, ” WHO ME?” NIKKI KISSED HIS CHEEK AND TOOK A SELFIE OF THE TWO, AS MARCO KISSED HIS PICTURE HE SAID,”I LOVE YOU !” THEN NIKKI ASKED,” YOU LOVE ME?” MARCO REPLIED, “NO, I LOVE ME.” THEN, NIKKI PUSHED …
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GOD BLESS AMERICA! SCALIA IS FINALLY GONE, AND CAN NEVER DO ANYMORE HARM, TO ANYONE. L.A. Steel Independent Presidential Write In Candidate, 2016 Share
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Snow fall in February is familiar, but still beautiful to watch from a warm room. The gray, dawn, snow, falls upon barren trees. It has been a light, snow year, unlike any in recent memory. The snow has finally arrived, light, white and wonderful. L.A. Steel …
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When the revolution begins, there will be no compassion for the wealthy, who horde their millions, while billions of people starve, walking streets for a place to sleep, somewhere out of the rain, snow, or heat. Billions of poor, sick, hurt, and numb from pain, are relieved by God, death, liquor, or heroin; while …
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When does someone cross the line in a conversation or a public statement? I have crossed so many lines I have become blind to them. Lies and lines dissolve when truth is told. Old and young men run away , frightened of what I say, frightened that their ears may sting and …
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January 25, 2016
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I AM, said he who is in me, the one who walks and talks, the one who lives and breathes. I AM, said I , who is me and he the one who speaks the words I write, the one who speaks to me. I AM him and …
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I Never Knew Your Name (written in 1996) I met you in the silence as we spoke in whispers wondering our next reply. The unearthed medallion showed its magic as your vision appeared. You were the wonder in my trance like stare of hallucinogenic love. Seldom in the …
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The World This world is one of a trillion stars. I wonder where we really are? L.A. Steel Share
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December 15, 2015
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 5 Stars Plus… By H.P. Albarelli Jr. on April 15, 2010 Format: Paperback Verified Purchase A few weeks ago, I received a call from L.A. Steel, a man I knew nothing about. L.A. told me he wanted to interview me on his radio show about my book, A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: The Murder of Frank …
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I’ve been throwing out things all day, now I’m nearly done. I threw out everything I never want to see again. I was hanging on to clothes and books and outdated ties,(I haven’t worn a tie since 1994) ties are phallic symbols, I had a lot of ties. I’m glad those tie days are …
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我覺得像中國今天在談到 起重機 一首詩, 白居易(公元830) 西部風已經吹到但幾天; 然而,第一片葉子已經飛從樹枝。 在我走在我單薄的演出乾燥路徑; 在第一個寒冷的我已經穿上了棉衣。 通過淺溝渠洪水被清除了; 通過疏竹淌下的傾斜光。 在早期的黃昏,綠色的青苔小巷下來, 花園男孩是領先的起重機回家 TRANSLATION The Cranes A poem by, PO CHU-I (A.D. 830) The western wind has blown but a few days; yet the first leaf already flies from the bough. On the drying paths I walk in my thin shows; in the …
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I hear the wind howl,and roar, through forests and fields. I turn away from the wind’s fierce resistance. I can not move forward, unless I turn into the wind. I feel the fierce wind blowing against me, and imagine I am a great tree , that refuses to die, break or bend. …
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Reclusive I am somewhere between wonder and reason, laughing at the sunshine and the blue sky of this morning, thankful I can enjoy them. All creators create their creations by hearing them or seeing them, and receiving them, from the divine mind, that navigates the winds of time. L.A. Steel Share
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It is apparent to me, that over the last two decades of producing radio and television as well as writing and creating my art and photography, I have moved my expectations of my goals, and my art, to levels I only imagined I could achieve, to an audience so receptive …
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LIQUID THOUGHT 10/27/05 In the sequenced hours of liquid thought all rise against the powers of political intent.All rise to peer through the lattice work of lies, in the sunlight and darkness of mixed dreams. In the dens of delusion the gilded garter adorns the supple thigh, as a drunken kiss from lipsticked lips. Faces …
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IMPRISONED, 10/27/08 Within the boundaries of the physical world the three dimensional limits bind the human spirit. The spirit breathes with rhythmic motion and listens to earth bound sounds. It is a prisoner of memory, fear and forgetfulness. The stars move subtly to dazzle the observer of the night sky. Bathed in mist and moonlight …
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My friend passed away the other day, without saying goodbye to anyone. No one knew she was ill. She died in her sleep. I knew her for years. I remember her smile,and voice, and the way she dressed, in consignment shop dresses, hats, vintage rings and necklaces. She was unique as her style and bold …
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September 4, 2015
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CANTOS OF A BELIEVER, 1997 I stood on an open balcony overlooking a wintry lake as the icy evening summoned the advance of darkness. I had forgotten the goodness of friends and shelter of safe homes. I had forgotten the ability to cope without the liquid or smoke. I was my dream, …
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It isn’t new to think about you. I thought about us as I viewed a video remembering how perfect you are. Are you now in the cold waters of the sea, cautious of the current and yet remembering me. Silver is the color of the cresting wave, as you slide under it and its …
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I thought of you today, when the sunlight in the window shone through. “You were destined to meet.” said the Oracle of Delphi. She sang to me in the sun filled room, as I entered her delirium, and altered my destiny. L.A. Steel Share
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