http://www.renoimc.org News by and for the people- read it, write it, your site, your news! Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:19:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   You pretend to listen, I pretend you care And time plays with the memory My heart greases the wheel of despair So the scenery and years go by A lab rat in life’s beta ware Can’t win and has to try   Painting reveals only the blindness Music conjures deep profound silence Poetry is just truth that ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/06/27/thirst/ The Nevada Youth Empowerment Project (NYEP) announced an exciting new project in Northern Nevada for disenfranchised youth. The organization has launched a girl's home, which will provide a stable, nurturing environment for older, female youth who have been abused, abandoned or neglected. The Nevada Youth Empowerment Project provides residential care with ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/14/northern-nevada-indpendent-living-home-for-girls-open-for-business/ Where are all the great patrons?   Throw me a hook you fishers of men.   That I might be caught and eaten   by the audience beyond the footlights.   That my blood be spilled on pages   and canvas in prescribed portion.   Afford me the flame of arrogance   to believe that my own hand   in the fire of creation touches wonder   and ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/04/artists-prayer/ From my window in the faces As my bus drove other places The graffiti prophet spoke A gentle sermon in his joke   It's not the questions, if you cry It's all the notions that are why The passions of the moment pass And so what's left is so what lasts   Life flowed past the tinted window Down a list ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/04/graffiti-prophet/ You can see it in a drowned man's eyes In the pawn shop window I just passed Frosty truths that come to the table uninvited   The poet and the truth Face to face, one whistles, one listens The napkins fill with cognitive snapshots The poet drowns in words Just wanting to say something Or hear it said at ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/04/poet-drown/   The world peeks at one another Reaches out or maybe not To a stranger or a brother What is get and what is got In our virtual melting pots   Everything is something like it In all the places we've been Across the fire we all sit On the other side of a screen Where we can't be seen   Calling soft, ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/04/internet-campfire/     If the truth was pretty And it smelled just right... Or it taste like a t-bone And came in diet light...   If truth was static free And came in easy stages... Or in scratch n sniff colors On large n glossy pages...   If the truth looked good On my arm uptown... Or sang like a bird  In a sequin gown...   But, ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/04/finger-lickin-truth/ Van Gogh's ear sings tales all night Soulful moaning over mind's eye sight   Antagonize the heart and turn the eye A visitor to the heart or passing by   From this spring that we all drink What whispers all the thoughts we think   Lunatic genius with eyes turned in Tell me where my mind has been   A freighting tether ... http://www.renoimc.org/2008/02/04/van-goghs-ear/ Reno Independent Media Centre is currently under a major change. We hope that you will continue to support us. Please visit us later!  http://www.renoimc.org/2007/11/23/under-construction/