May 2013
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Projects, Poems, Books & Bookings
SOUTHEAST. MIDWEST. EAST COAST. THE GREAT NORTH. WEST COAST. USA. I figured it’s about time to give everyone an update on plans for the year, and invite you to participate. As of today, I’m finished with Re:Train. I’ll be posting a blog or two in the following weeks about the completed school year, but for now, that means I’m going headlong into a busy 2013 that feels like...
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Bring Back Emo Music
I’ll be honest, I posted this piece elsewhere two years ago, but brought memories back today. It’s been an insane week and I didn’t make time to write anything new, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging. Freeverse Friday: Bring Back Emo Music. “I called to tell you I love you, and I called to tell you I’m leaving.” Oh, we were a temperamental spark and we were a quick,...
April 2013
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The Gospel of Green Chile
My friend and servant at our local church in Albuquerque - Deacon Shawn Honsberger - wrote this op-ed piece for a Re:Train course assignment last month. We’ve been in The Resurgence’s school of ministry for the past year together, and our most recent assignment was to write an op-ed piece that we might submit to a local newspaper - one which analyzes the culture of our city in the...
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Levi The Poet (And Girls) Tour
Today, we are announcing our new tour: Levi The Poet (And Girls). We’re calling it that because my wife and another girlfriend (by that I mean, friend-girl), are coming out on the road with me to play music and sing and things. This will be the first time I’ve done anything that isn’t solo with Levi The Poet, and I hope that many of you will be able to make it out and enjoy the...
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There Was
There was this point in time, beautiful beneath the patio, celebrating the first, a chocolate-covered face smiles, and a little child digs back in to her cake. There was a solace in the memory. There was a point in time, gorgeous in the context: boyhood. Innocence. Fine, grainy sand digging in to his skin; he’s rounding the diamond: ...
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Drink Victory!
I’ve been drinking Victory Coffee for a week and a half - loving it after I got my first bag of beans in the mail from Georgia. Right now, I’m watching the Decaf That Actually Tastes Good drip through a cone filter and into my mug (caffeinated coffee started making me anxious, so we’re on a hiatus). Victory don’t lie, though, the decaf is good. I love Victory for more...
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For The Sake Of My Brothers
Last night, I was reading 1 Timothy 2. I just finished my last class at Re:Train this weekend on Pastoral Leadership with Pastor Dave Bruskas, and he had been teaching us through the pastoral epistles, so I decided to review what we had gone through in my own devotional time. Frankly, I’m trying to get better at distinguishing “my own devotional time” from “my devotional...
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Pious Arrogance & Internet Trolls
Recently, a fan of Levi The Poet tagged my Facebook artist page with a comment that read something to the extend of, “Thank God, I found Levi The Poet and Ascend The Hill for free on the Come&Live! website! I’ve been wanting the albums for a while, but didn’t have the funds for them… God is good and he provides!” The comment beneath that post read, “In the...
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Survival Of The Weakest
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at a conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (which is a difficult thing to say, quickly, anyway), titled Survival of the Weakest, alongside other guest speakers Eugene Cho, Will Willimon, and Terry LeBlanc, among others. I spoke on behalf of XXXChurch for a youth event on Friday night, and led three porn-and-stories’ related workshops...
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Paint Us Porcelain
You were a seed that grew from nothing out of the ground. We tried planting you in the soil, but felt the ground quiver as the dust was not enough to contain you. We set you on the highway. When we pass by, we can see you in the middle of the interstate. They rebuilt it around your oak. Like an obligatory gesture. Like a memoir to some feeling we were trying to portray, with no story or...
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Keep A Journal
I first started keeping a journal, consistently, in sixth grade. Those journals were, primarily, short poems that acted as an introvert’s outlet between him and God. I’ve heard it said that keeping a journal or diary can be an important spiritual discipline. In hindsight, though I must admit that mine were never intentioned for the sake of spirituality, I can see that to be true. I...
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For Old Times' Sake: MySpace Questions Survey
When I was younger, my sister and I used to love those 50 Question Surveys that got posted all over MySpace and told everyone too much about themselves. So I found one of those to fill out this morning while I wait for my flight to leave Peoria. When was the last time you swam in a pool? A week ago. Do you like to party? Who doesn’t like to party? Depends on the party. If you ex suddenly...
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Epiphany
The thought came carried like a slap to the face, resting upon the brilliance of a dove: this solitary white somewhat of an eyesore, painted in like an afterthought to such fluorescent light above. Artist, compose an image, both timeless and fleeting, if you dare. Bride, this dove may not appear much in opposition, but no gift could ever compare. These portals express our frailty, the same...
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Two Years Down, A Lifetime To Go
I’m not going to spend a lot of time writing here today, but I have ten minutes to jot something down, so here goes. Brandi and I have been married for two years as of today. In my biased opinion, ours was the best wedding I’ve ever been to. It was a themed wedding: “Glamorous” - based off of the Fergie song. Our friends came wearing gold-spraypainted suits, and/or,...
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2nd Anniversary $2 Sale →
Happy day! It’s me & B’s second wedding anniversary! Grab any or all Levi The Poet albums from www.levithepoet.bandcamp.com for two bucks all day!
March 2013
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Car Keys & Invincibility
Today’s Freeverse Friday (#ltpFVF) is a little bit silly, maybe. I found this written in a journal that I wrote while I was in Thailand with my dad, seven years ago, on January 3, 2006. At least, that’s the day I posted it, originally. But to those of you that have been following Levi The Poet since the beginning - this is the piece that “Oh Captain, My Captain” evolved from. I’m not 100% certain...
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[Il]legitimate Emotion?
On Monday morning, I had the opportunity to speak to a sophomore high school class just down the street from my house, at La Cueva. The closest I’d ever come to getting inside of that building before was when I was in high school, skateboarding on their benches and getting kicked out of this amazing set of stairs they have leading up to the front entrance. I’ve recently had the...
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An Easter Letter From My Mom
Every year, my mom sends out an Easter letter to her friends and family, and I received mine yesterday. I thought that, for those of you that recently read my post requesting prayer in light of recent family changes, it would be a good follow up, so I asked her permission to post it today. From my beautiful mom: “He is not here! For He has been resurrected, just as He said.” Matt 28:6a. Those...
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Will
Today’s Freeverse Friday (#ltpFVF) is a piece I wrote in high school. I actually recited this for my senior presentation, with Christmas tree lights wrapped around my head because… well, I don’t know why. My mom loved it, though, and I found it the other day, so in honor of yesterday’s post, enjoy:if I die tonight I want the world to know I died with a smile. and I could...
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Today is a hard day for my family. As many of you know, my father committed suicide just over two years ago, and our family has been slowly working through the repercussions of his loss since then. Shortly after he died, my mom sold the house she and my father bought together in the Sandia Mountains just east of Albuquerque, and moved to Santa Barbara, California, along with my sister. The Lord...
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Seven Psychopaths Get Into A Hearse
A week and a half ago, I had the great honor of representing XXXChurch.com as a speaker on their #PornKills Tour, along with the ministry’s founder, Craig Gross, and spoken word poet / speaker, Jefferson Bethke. The three of us, along with Scott the Mechanic, Dave The Hairy Shoulder Guy and Matthew the SICKproductions Dude, and Craig’s brother, Mike, spent five days driving a...
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Porn Kills Tour Live Stream | #PornKills
We are on night three of the #PornKills Tour. Tonight at 7pm PDT we will be sharing the event with all of you. The night includes spoken word, messages and questions and answer. You can watch right here at 7pm tonight. Invite your friends and family to tune in with you by sharing the hashtag #PornKills. Talk amongst yourselves and feel free to ask questions and post in the comments section below. ...
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The Most Beautiful White Speckle Falling Of All
Look out the back window I wanted to find you in the winter Mixed into the snow And you’d be the most beautiful white speckle falling of all Make me timeless Make me timid I’ll share my hot chocolate with you When you dissipate into the ground “…Well that’s the same ground I came from…” And we both grew out beneath that weeping willow tree I cried myself to sleep for...
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Parachute Festival 2013: Part Two | The Times
Have you ever been treated so kindly that it was humbling in light of what you know you deserve? I once heard a pastor I listen to on occasion say that, as Christians, we should seek to “outdo one another in love.” Well, I know that I am now just over a month removed from Parachute Festival 2013, but I wanted - needed - to thank New Zealand and the Kiwi Culture (which I decided to...
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The #PornKills Tour Starts Tomorrow
The XXXChurch #PornKills Tour starts tomorrow in Seattle, Washington with Craig Gross and Nick Vitellaro. After that, Jefferson Bethke joins us in the hearse as we head down the coast to Newberg, OR, Galt, Lancaster and Bakersfield, California. Details on the posters below. Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Pin it. Tumbl it. #PornKills (Have questions, comments, or concerns? Comment below and get...
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The #PornKills Tour Starts Tomorrow
The XXXChurch #PornKills Tour starts tomorrow in Seattle, Washington with Craig Gross and Nick Vitellaro. After that, Jefferson Bethke joins us in the hearse as we head down the coast to Newberg, OR, Galt, Lancaster and Bakersfield, California. Details on the posters below. Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Pin it. Tumbl it. #PornKills (Have questions, comments, or concerns? Comment below and get...
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The #PornKills Tour Starts Tomorrow
The XXXChurch #PornKills Tour starts tomorrow in Seattle, Washington with Craig Gross and Nick Vitellaro. After that, Jefferson Bethke joins us in the hearse as we head down the coast to Newberg, OR, Galt, Lancaster and Bakersfield, California. Details on the posters below. Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Pin it. Tumbl it. #PornKills (Have questions, comments, or concerns? Comment below and get...
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The #PornKills Tour Starts Tomorrow
The XXXChurch #PornKills Tour starts tomorrow in Seattle, Washington with Craig Gross and Nick Vitellaro. After that, Jefferson Bethke joins us in the hearse as we head down the coast to Newberg, OR, Galt, Lancaster and Bakersfield, California. Details on the posters below. Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Pin it. Tumbl it. #PornKills (Have questions, comments, or concerns? Comment below and get...
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Covenant College | Thank You
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA, to fly in and perform at their school. I have never been to Lookout Mountain, GA before, but when I landed in Chattanooga, TN, I told my new friends that I was excited to be there, because the name made me feel like I was living in a fairy tale. Ironically enough, when we made it to the mountain, the streets were...
February 2013
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Hobbiton | Over 100 photos from our trip to The... →
