Those 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!

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?

This is it. Sign up!

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.

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.

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