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“Start Dialing For Life”
Sometimes all people need is one phone call. They only need to hear one voice on the other end saying, “ I just called to say I love you and everything will be alright.” That might be the ring that helped take the bullets out the gun, the pills out of the hand or the knife away from the wrist. When we think about saving a life, we often correlate that thought with being a hero: A superman, batman, or Spiderman type person. We imagine we have to run into a burning building and pull someone out or doing something extreme like jump in front of a bullet that almost hit another but that’s not true. Although those things may put you the hero category, it doesn’t make you less heroic to do something on a smaller scale. You don’t have to wear a mask and super cool costume to save everyday people with thoughts of suicide. You might only need a voice and a few minutes of time to save the person or people close to you or the people or person close to someone else. The same words that can make a person feel like they have nothing to live for can be rearranged to make a person feel secure about having everything to live for. I always say, “ If you want to kill a person, make that person believe they have nothing to live for and if you want to see that person kill them self: After making them believe they have nothing to live for, make them believe that they have nothing else to live for.” Why not use the same mouth we use to tear so many people and things down with daily, to try and save a life? Cell phones can become lifelines instead of devices only used to generate normal everyday conversations. Your what are you doing’s can turn into how are you doing’s? Who’s over there can turn into whom do you need over there? What are you doing later can turn into what do you need to do now? It’s just as simple as it sounds. One person, one phone call, a little bit of your of time, generosity, and motivation. There are probably millions of people at home right now waiting on the phone to ring. Hoping and praying that someone calls to renew their faith and let them know that you don’t have to see the air to keep breathing. Those people might be your friends, your mother, your sisters, your brothers, your high school sweethearts or even a stranger. You never know whose will is being written in pencil with hopes receiving a reason to erase it; while you sit somewhere doing nothing with knowledge of their insecurities, fears, heartbreaks, failures and still choose not to call. I know how it feels to need a 4am phone call; I also know how it feels to need a 4pm phone and don’t doubt that most of us do. Be the friend you need someone to be to you once a day or once a week. Don’t send out a text message or an email and hope to save a life pick, up the phone and provide a comforting voice. Go to bed at night knowing that someone will wake up tomorrow because of you or wake up tomorrow knowing that someone will sleep that night because of you. Go through your phonebooks, think about the people who may need you to call them and start dialing as if someone life depends on it!
Poetstock 2009!
Never before has this been done, and hopefully it will be successfully repeated after this all over the world, again and again….
Our aim is to bring together poets from all over, who produce all
genres of poetry for a night of mingling, poetry, shameless self
promotion…. Each poet will have the poetry to read their work on
stage, sell their work to those who would like to buy, and mingle with
the best poets of our generation.
It will be held on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 9 PM at STUDIO PARK; 1519 Carroll Dr
Atlanta, GA 30318-3605
And the owner of STUDIO PARK in Atlanta has been gracious enough to open his doors to us without charging us ANYTHING!!!
Guys, you seriously CAN’T miss this~you HAVE to be there! It is the
chance of the lifetime, and the bigger we make it, the more attention
we poets will get.
Poetry is NOT dead~let’s show the world that it is living and breathing~
Don’t forget to bring your Books, CDs and/or original artwork to sell!
***BTW~we are looking for a talented DJ to spin between reads~so if you
have what it takes or know someone who does, please email me.
****ALL are welcome! Whether you are a poet, or love poetry, we hope
you will all come, tell your friends about it, and your friends’
friends-blog it, bulletin it, email it, scream about it from the
rooftops~Whatever it takes!!!
Thanks for coming out to my school TECHS man it was greatly appreciated since the writers there dont get much credit it was nice to see some one who made something out of something they love
Hey hey hey! js wanted 2 cum thru n bless ur page wit my beauty ;) hope all is well wit u. I gotta make sure i c 1 of ur shows real soon cz im feelin ur poetry.
Poetry night TONIGHT at Mt. Aaron Christian Ctr. 2621 vernon ave. LA, CA (Leimert Park area) btwn 4th and 5th come thru they are gonna feed us too Rememba this event is today Cost is ONLY…….$5.00
Janet's info is:
323.292.3100 or email: leannwrites@yahoo.com
for sign-ups, info, etc... if u want to come thru and u aint got tha cheeze...Jesus paid it ALL....so no worries. God's got u family. See u there. Shalom!!
The words on your profile are soo true. They mean soo much. All it takes is a simple action to prevent a tragedy. I appreciate you for writing that. Thanks for adding me.
Saturday March 14th Detroit, MI and Saturday March 28th ATL, GA $500 Poetry Slam & Live Music Series Featuring a rare performance, in Atlanta, by Joi! Also featuring Julie Dexter, Eva Kennedy, and introducing Look Alive! Doc Holiday, Joshua Adams and Jessica Care Moore in Detroit!
Live Music, Body Painting, the Best Slam Poets in the country and you! Free food for VIP Seating (ATL only) Purchase online advance discount tix @ www. roughlanguage. com Register to slam today speakyourpeace@roughlanguage.com or call 757.449.0068 Sheba
THANK YOU FOR ADDING ME!!! IMMA HUGE FAN AS U CAN PROLLY TELL IF YOU LOOKED AT MY PAGE! IM MOVING TO CALI SOON AND I HOPE I GET TO MEET YOU SOON! STAY IN TOUCH, LOVE ONE OF UR BIGGEST FANS FOREAL, JILL
