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being a poet
Get the Poetic ShiftThose of us who are drawn to words, word play and word association are aware that there is a world that exists just beyond the imagination, or in a place with dreams, feelings and words intersect. This is a magical place where anything can happen just because you say it can. I love this pursuit, it keeps my life constantly interesting and it is one of the reasons I decided to create RichPoet.com. I am very excited to be able to interview one of the Rich Poets that I personally know. The reason is, the project of RichPoet.com as I perceive it, as I conceived it, is to share the pathways poets have trod that make them feel rich. Stay tuned for this up and coming podcasty kind of project. I promise, more soon!
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Tap in to Your Inner Beat
Release the beat within.
Your beat is inside you! If I can do it, you can too!
When I started drumming I couldn’t keep the beat. But others showed me how to do it and were patient while I tried. Acceptance by them was key for me. Then I sat alone for many months on a hilltop in the middle of an old growth rainforest and it just came. I realized I had my beat and all my other beats stemmed from that. I’m all for learning other beats but to get a lot out of drumming and share that beat with others I don’t need to learn anything! I just needed to remember.
It’s like talking. It is a language. It is a meditation and a stress reliever. I think it unleashes creativity and encourages your left and right half to interconnect.
Feel comfortable picking up any percussion instrument and adding it to anything you do.
Do you want to add drumming to your life? Would you like to experience a drumming circle and the powerful effect it can have on groups? Need to get something done? Need stress relief? Need to get off the computer and re-set your vision, posture, state of mind and group dynamic?
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Performance Poetry
Work with me to bring your poems off the page and onto the stage.
With over 20 years experience I will teach you how to wow audiences and overcome everything from your writer’s block to your stage fright.
Learn how to free your voice, your mind and your body to access the full experience of public speaking.
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Poetree & Percussion Playshops
poetree & percussion playshops
bring the excitement & focus of creative writing, wordplay, movement, percussion & performance to your classroom.
teachers learn new techniques watching the facilitator, trained educator, mother and spoken word artist, Angela “Ayla” Heeds, introduce new group focussing & creative output elements to the class.
Now Available for 2016 bookings! Make your own drum workshop can also be added plus deals on ordering hand drums for your school.
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wmdeeze
text messages
i text you i’ll brb
then u send hugs to me
we are proposing to each other on twitter
sending our followers into a dither
come hither, my lover,
fb doesn’t allow me to acknowledge you all
i could make you my sisters you clones of my one
and when you listen my heart beats like a drum
to the beat of one, to the sound of hum
to the tone of none, to the pattern of slum
the magnetic force lifting this muscle a glisten
aorta and spinning, centrifical forces going ballistic
like wmdeeze in sub-arctic strongholds
servers + mainframes and heritage seed stockholds
its hard to imagine a reality so thoughtful
birthing from parents so horribly awful
when we’re told to hussle
you know the ships aren’t coming for us,
the ships are made to distrust,
the scotch the vodka the disstilary on board
you’ll be drinking it b4 you know it
you can’t last long on this ship without it,
you have to resign yourself to the flighted
humans with wings that can’t come undone
singers with songs that can’t be unsung
the hung, the tried, the blued and the blied…
we all cornered him after school, talking and taunting and trying to be cool
on the hunt, not understanding our selves, our hormones or tragectory for the cutest boy in history
some of the lucky ones…
he was an aquarian]
escaped from the sanctuary,
not seeking asylum
the antidote and the antithesis all rolled into one
envision the hum
methodic anti-despotic
nt meaning 2 b e-rotic
in the closet
germ hobbit
dancing so fast u can plot it
maps on gps norad tracking spot it
a mad man in red goes flying thru the skies giving presents
throwing good will to the peasants
but those who can’t afford it are left to grouch
or ask for hand-outs
made to feel bad in a time of least surplus
if global warming is so much in denial
then why was it the most popular phrase of the decade
and why is there a new cure for cancer on every facebook page
when we’re dying of radiation
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PoeTreeKicks
poeTreeKicks started in the forest,
on an island off Tofino inlet. bald eagles walked freely on its shores,
the pesky problem was a juvenile bear, my neighbours were the old growth trees,
minks cavorted free,
it was a place i could be me. where i envisioned this type of house for the works of mine (& other poets’) poeTree.
i have a voice. i do percussion. i have produced some chapbooks. i am working on some more. i am past the number 4.
poeTreeKicks is an artist’s experience of running a business.
Coaching

Coaching in Poetry Writing, Performance & Percussion

Custom Written Poems

playshops
Dance to my Beat
I've been writing since I was a baby... well not really, but very early on, like grade one
Performance Poetry
January 8, 2016
Poetree & Percussion Playshops
December 12, 2015