S2:E3 This episode is a reading of a new poem with a reflection on the state of the world and human culture.  Mica Sun Reflections "Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears."  www.patreon.com/micasun --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/micasun/support

Mica Sun Reflections

POETRY & REFLECTION: "My Father Was Uncle Scrooge, Too."

S2:E5 This episode consists of a poem born from the top of a panoramic hill southeast of Asheville. Read by yours truly.  1,000 Secret Whispers Through an IT Tower Knoll Hilltop of open cattle land and cell tower IT needles, Sun setting over endless grass. Are we always whispering across such spaces Mole hills tunneling their crazy paces Beneath the only tall things left, the thistles And last seasons’ dung. Bare rocks Turn face towards Sun when she Molasses passes far above. On microwaves Dart messages of love, like fishes Navigating corals some thousand miles below this knoll Which holds the concrete toes of spires’ wires Passing their threads of spiders messages Above thru viewless space dimensionally inaccessible except To ears of precious metal mined at feet of war torn wilderness Thousands of miles away. So we may say Into tight microphone like a child’s game of telephone I love you, I hate you, come home, stay gone, I will. —19 November 2020 Mica Sun Reflections.  Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears. @micasunreflections  https://micasun.bandcamp.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/micasun/support

POETRY SERIES • “1,000 Secret Whispers Through an IT Tower Knoll”

Please keep showing up and supporting the cause: Black Lives Matter, "All Lives Matter" (of course we all do!), changing the system so that ALL of us can be in greater freedom from the forces that seem to want us to only serve and be oppressed.  Please, extend the right to vote to ALL citizens of our country -- felons and prisoners included. Tax-paying immigrants included. People serving long sentences for  crimes; even those who made a violent choice 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago -- those who are still in prison, still denied a Voice to say "enough is enough! let's create a just society" -- who are legally allowed to be Used as slaves (do your research! it's true! a slave culture of voiceless prisoners and more and more laws "to lock them up"--) --  We need to push to change in this society. Police and Law Enforcement need to be held accountable -- directly to the people -- that means to me, to you, to our neighbors. And that means the whole institution of policing. Please vote, please know that WE ALL WANT JUSTICE -- FOR ALL! and I mean treating every human being with respect -- and also understanding the anger of people who have been pushed aside and silenced and used and mistreated for SO LONG -- and that includes some of *all* of our People, European, African, Native, everyone else -- over many many generations. We (Europeans) left Europe's oppression and hierarchy -- and need to get rid of that here. WE ALL WANT THE SAME THING AT CORE: Freedom, life, family, opportunity -- and fairness. Sure "Life isn't fair" -- but that's a lazy person's excuse, too. That doesn't let us off the hook -- "Life's not fair" so "now we can be assholes!" No. No. No. Be Christian, if that's your creed. Follow the teachings of your Religion. Be Loving. Be Awake. Be Compassionate. Be Human and we must rise up to create together the best world we can! -- and if that means some Courage then By God let's have some courage. Courage to care -- courage to listen to your neighbors -- Courage to believe their stories. Courage to make this world a better one and not just for you but for everybody. "The richest country in the world"  don't need more oppression -- we need liberation, and love, and courage. Please, let's stand together today.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

POETRY: "Snail" and a little classical guitar.

This is my plea for you to do something specific and easy that should take you about 5 to 10 minutes — that if we do it enough together can help change the course of our world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

PSA: Divest. 4 minutes.

This is a new poem with reflection on the state of the world and human culture. Mica Sun Reflections: Getting art to your ears.  www.patreon.com/micasun --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

This poem represents a deep vow I took the other day. Waking with the feeling of the feathered, dark wing of death or mortality in my psyche -- I went out to the woods to grieve -- and ended up in prayer. I've been holding the prayer with me since -- and here, in this podcast, share the vow, the poem, and some free-reflection about what "being a vessel of the witness to love" means. I hope you enjoy. And remember, you can go deeper and show support by messaging me, finding "mica sun" on the social threads, supporting me at anchor.fm/micasun, or at my artists' site on patreon.com/micasun. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

POETRY SERIES "Make Me a Vessel of the Witness to Love" — Reflections on Witnessing Love, and as a State of Consciousness

Contemplative verse, well-read, with commentary, to start your day and engage contemplation.  Received at dawn on the last day of 2019, and recorded to audio that morning, this episode is the first of my Second Season of work at the podcast Mica Sun Reflections.  Please "Subscribe" to Mica Sun Reflections to support me — and click-through to https://www.patreon.com/micasun to more deeply explore and support me as an artist.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

POETRY SERIES "Pistons" – Reflections on Sexuality and Meaning in an Era of Empire

This episode of Mica Sun Reflections features an Imbolc 2019 live telling of the original fable "The Floating Kingdom", which I'm in third-draft phase of editing as of this (Sept. 2019) moment.  It features an aging King, a Mouse, and the Firebird-Phoenix, and is set in a period of forgetfulness, empire, and ecological and social ills much like our own. (~and yet different.~) The germ of "The Floating Kingdom" was birthed during a 2-part, all-day storytelling workshop facilitated by Eric Wolf, aka Brother Wolf, at Earthaven Ecovillage in Black Mountain, NC. (Brother Wolf himself produced a phenomenal podcast of in-depth interviews with over 100 storytellers: "The Art of Storytelling With Brother Wolf" (still available online). The brief intro in this live set reminisces about a separate story, "Scheherezade's Patriarch", which I penned a couple years ago as a part of a wider intended performance at an arts and culture festival in C. A. with my creative friend Nat Allister of Fox and Beggar Theater.  (Nat is rumored to be hatching his next offering even as we speak.)   PLEASE SUPPORT MY WORK as an artist by clicking here and visiting my site at Patreon.com.  —Mica Sun Reflections—  Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

BONUS EPISODE: "The Floating Kingdom." A Fabulous Story for Our Times.

Podcast Episode 7. A Mica Sun Reflections Interview. A musical showcase and conversational romp through Brazil, South Africa, and the United States, with musician, scuba diver, traveler, vidcaster, and English instructor Stephen Kramer. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa; now a resident of Brazil; Stephen shares his band’s original South African music and some personal rock-and-roll; as well as travel stories, political musings, and scuba diving and adventure tales in this hour-long interview. You can find Stephen’s travel blog and some stunning videos at: www.lifeaquaticdiving.com Stephen's music and albums are online at: https://soundcloud.com/steve-funk-1 and: https://soundcloud.com/steve-funk-1/sets/alanfunk-amanzi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

From South Africa to Brazil: Original Music and Travel Stories.

Bloomington, Illinois artist, farmer, teacher, and Uber driver Aaron Pollitt joins us with 4 beautiful original songs, plus an interview about activism, burnout, ecology, and the bioregional mind. https://micasunreflections.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/podcast-episode-6-aaron-pollitt-songs-and-conversation/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

Interview & Song Series: Aaron Pollitt, folk-arts musician, philosopher, activist, and teacher.

In this episode, I open with a prayer song from a woods walk. I feature the original poem, "streetsweeper", and then chat about spirituality and appropriation and my own scientific-pagan-christian white boy roots. I close with a semi-professional recording of my wildly popular song, "firebird." Enjoy! Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears. Mica Sun Reflections. Support my work directly and/or learn about my current projects and future projections: https://www.patreon.com/appalachianseason Follow my occasional reflections and poetry blog: https://www.instagram.com/micasunreflections/ Artistic and personal history, and my long-standing webpage: https://geneticstar.wixsite.com/appalachianseason Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

Poetry Series & Song. A sung prayer, my poem streetsweeper, dialogue, and my song firebird.

Join me in an original mythological story with narration, music, and song — a new (and old~) Southern Appalachian winter fable of my own design. Bear, Raven, and Grandmother Moon feature in an original script, with original music and songs performed live by myself, the vocalist-narrator, with live acoustic guitar, looping cello, and doumbek hand-drum. (There's even a piece in 5/4 for you music nerds...)  If you'd like to view the original live performance —complete with shadow puppetry, costumery, and choreographed dance, and live background projections — visit https://geneticstar.wixsite.com/appalachianseason/appalachian-winter-show-jan-2015  Please "Subscribe" — AND consider supporting my work at https://www.patreon.com/micasun, where you can also find information on other  projects in process.  Mica Sun Reflections, "Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears."  Thanks for listening and I look forward to seeing you for more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/micasun/message

RITUAL THEATER : "Appalachian Winter" ~ a musical pagan work about the icy winter season and the return of spring.

In this episode, I read three original poems, and reflect on two of them. I think you'll like it. Drop deep for a moment. Getting art to your ears. micasunreflections.wordpress.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/micasun/support

POETRY SERIES: 3 original poems and conversation. Anthropology, Coming Up Over the Hill, and White Bird.

Created by the Devil is an original poem with my own commentary about relationships and healing. I wrote this one while walking, during a particularly challenging day in my relationship with my loved one. I read it here twice, add commentary, and then read it a final time. Enjoy. https://www.patreon.com/micasun --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/micasun/support

Poetry Series: Created by the Devil

My introductory podcast release on Anchor.fm: A revised version of "Song for the May" - a sung piece about finding your voice, and creating beauty. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/micasun/support

Song Series: "Song for the May"

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