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Jordon Chandler Lied about Michael Jackson
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Music Legend Michael Jackson Transitions at the Age of 50: How has his musical career impacted you?

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Two days after the King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s death, an truly sickening news broke out. Jordan Chandler, the child who claimed that Michael Jackson molested him in 1993, went out in public to admit that he LIED. Yes, Jordan Chandler said in an...

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Valjeanne Jeffers replied to Moon's discussion 'Music Legend Michael Jackson Transitions at the Age of 50: How has his musical career impacted you?'

I grew up listening to his music, as a little girl I had huge crush on him (smile). As an adult his music touched me in so many different -- sometimes inspiring me, like "Man in Mirror." At others I would hear a certain song by Mike and feel like ...

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Valjeanne Jeffers commented on Valjeanne Jeffers's blog post 'Download Immortal II: The Time of Legend...'

Thank you Queen!!! You just made my morning (smile)!

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About Me:: I'm an science fiction author, poet and artist. I've been published in Revelry 2006, Drumvoices 2007 & 2008, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South 2007 & Pembroke Magazine 2007; and I was chosen as semifinalist for the Rita Dove poetry award 2007. My poems have also been published in Little Black Book: Bedtime Stories for Lovers Vol 2, Making Sense of the Madness and Liberated Muse Vol I: How I Freed my Soul; the featured volume Capital City Soul Fest. My fiction & poetry has also been published in Future Passage (2010). I'm currently writing IMMORTAL III: Stealer of Souls

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Chosen Artform(s):: Poetry, Prose, Painting

Website:: http://www.blackscififantasy24.ning.com

What Made You Join Liberated Muse?: I've studied and written extensively about the media and its sexist and racist impact upon our culture. Liberated Muse is a perfect forum in which to share these offerings.

Who/What Is Your Muse?: Sister Moon

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IMMORTAL: A science fiction novel by Valjeanne Jeffers

HER DREAMS ARE TERRIFYING. In the year of our One 3075, Tundra has been at peace for 400 years. There is no racism, poverty or war. Karla is a young Indigo woman working as a successful healer. Yet she is tormented by lucid and erotic dreams. Dreams in which she is IMMORTAL. Two men emerge from these phantasms: the first a Copper shape shifter and the other a demon more dead than alive. But when this creature appears in her apartment Karla realizes they share a lust that may one day consume her. HIS WILL UNLOCK A MYSTERY. Joseph has always dreamt of becoming an artist, warrior...and a werewolf. Now he's dreaming of a sorceress who commands that he leave his homeland. TOGETHER THEY WILL JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF TIME...To a nightmarish world of revolution and magic. But will they save Tundra or perish in its destruction?
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Mr. Charlie's Blues

Contemptuous of my Blackness
your eyes naked hatred
makes me feel unclean, powerless
undeserved bile spewed, evokes visions
of strange fruit, archetypes of dusky women
genitalia shredded, torn

he got to take sick and die
one of these days

Bodies hammered in brimstone
live in your gaze, the field changed
but players yet in place
our nation, kingdom of cages
my pain, how different from my
red, brown brothers and sisters
victims of global colonialism?
Genocide by any other name means death

he go… Continue

Posted on March 23, 2009 at 12:51pm —

Down Home Ecstasy

(In tribute to Muddy Waters)

Listen to the Blues
Visualize
Charcoal black sweet, sweat sinews
Broad, powerful

Sunset of smudged peach,
purple and orange
Honeysuckle
Fireflies
Cotton dresses

Brother testify with a harmonica
Make it preach
Baby, do your thing

Boss man’s gone
Now, here is love and rhythm
Here is pathos in wailing song

A woman lounges
A child’s head in her lap

Heads thrown back
Spines arched and proud

Listen:
Can’t you hear
Song give birth?
Can’t you hear that cry
Like… Continue

Posted on March 16, 2009 at 9:50pm —

My Best Day

Summer
we walk the concrete
Me, Sukie, and Laconya
with dusty feet
midriff tops
cutoff shorts

Past knee-high grass
purple and fuchsia wildflowers
june bugs
Liberate blackberries from the vine
--"Don't worry 'bout no snakes."

Join a gathering of elders
eighteen to twenty-five
a lean ebony sapling
grins white and gold
He shares his forty with us
Another, watermelon

The sun tucks itself in
In youthful innocence
we await tomorrow

Do it all over again.

First published in The Ringing Ear: Black P… Continue

Posted on March 16, 2009 at 8:30pm —

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At 8:10pm on April 2, 2009, PurpleZoe said…: I know that feeling. Be good to you, and it will flow. You've done alot so far, and writing in a series can be pressureful. You're a very adept writer. I'm glad you and your muse got to talk. lol.
I had a hardtime writing Greenbone (a novella in the Maji Omnibus), even though I knew exactly where the story was going. I was amazed at how difficult it was for me to focus. Finishing it, I realized my voice had grown.
Sometimes that may be the cause of the strain in writing periods. In a process of expansion the flow can get funny for awhile, but the end result is always bigger and brighter than before if we keep moving.

You're definitely one of the adept authors in Sci-fi, with conscious symbolisms embedded in your stories no less. I applaud you.

Much Respect and Love, Sistar Jeffers
-PZ

At 3:32pm on April 2, 2009, PurpleZoe said…: Peace Queen ^_^

Thankyou for the love. It is cherished.
I'm glad to have met you, and the magazine is honored to feature you this issue.

Continue to shine, Lady Jeffers
-PZ

At 2:45pm on January 25, 2009, Liberated Muse Productions said…: Hey there, saw you featured in PurpleZoe's blog the Ultraviolet Underground...congrats!

At 7:10pm on January 2, 2009, msladydeborah said…: Happy New Year to you!

Thanks for the add.

At 6:06pm on January 2, 2009, Christian-Michelle Dickerson said…: Thank you dear friend and Happy New Year to you also.

At 3:26pm on December 16, 2008, Morpheus said…: thank you so very much......You BP page is a great place for it..

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At 12:41pm on October 28, 2008, Liberated Muse Productions said…: What a pleasure to have you here! Welcome, welcome, welcome!

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