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Submit your Poetry to the Festival. Three Options: 1) To post. 2) To have performed by an actor 3) To be made into a film.

POETRY Reading: Sweet Gratitude, by Claudio Laniado

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Sweet gratitude because I can walk, talk, eat, drink, enjoy a beautiful sunset , have a home , carry a home within myself, share of myself with loving kindness to those who I meet, and inspiring others to do the same because love and compassion for me is a start of a way to act toward my fellow earthlings.
My love overflows as I tap into the power of love and compassion because love and compassion can be stronger than the love of power.
Our earth may be crumbling but it is to remind us tis time to get out of the mud, to walk together in a path that unites all despite our many differences. It’s time to unite to save any love and compassion you might have.
Our humanity needs you!
Bring on the greatest fight you will have, for love and compassion to your fellow earthlings!
Join us lovers and compassionate people, before the world crumbles. Find gratitude between the lines.

By producer of Forbidden Tango, Claudio Laniado

RHYME Poetry Contest

Deadline March 27th. Submit a poem that rhymes and get it made into a movie. 

Accepting any poetry in any genre or length that rhymes in any way.

All poems will be posted on this network. Over 95,000 unique visitors a day. The winning poem will have their poetry made into a movie.

The RULES are simple:

1. Write a POEM that rhymes. Send it to this contest for $10 and it will be POSTED on this site guaranteed for 100,000s to see. (you own all rights to this poem and whenever you want it taken down, send us an email).

2. Email your POEM to submission@festivalforpoetry.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format or just cut and past it into the body of the email.

3. SUBMIT as many poems as you like ($10 per poem).

4. The poem can be anything that rhymes. Any event/situation. Any genres. As long as it rhymes.

5. PAY THE $10 SUBMISSION FEE. Guaranteed post on this network. Results to be emailed by April 10th. We will turn the winning POEM into a movie. (You’ll also garner an IMDB credit as your film will be played at various film festivals. Guaranteed!)

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Watch Recent Poems made into a MOVIE:

Love Poem: White Magic Man, by Ard-Alan Pourvali

Roller coasters on merry farms,
with southland Chingona.
Take me back home again,
In the season of America.

Sexed like wildfire and starlight.
Her moonlight radiates desire.
Love is the only keeper,
and I’m getting higher.

Vexed runes of darkness,
black magic and voodoo
Like Romeo and Juliet
Capulet and Montague.

Hexed by Santeria,
The roots of her witchcraft.
I prance with white magic,
Jesus guides my glance.

Shadows dance at midnight
Under this Chicana spell
A black cat crosses my path.
An omen from heaven or hell.

Every alley and byway,
chance leaves its wrath.
All fire lit and lit,
On shattered glass I took a bath.

Of stilettos and of sangrias,
On this night of trance.
Of Chonies and of bloody maria’s,
Never severs, true romance.
A cosmic soul-tie, Everlast.

Poetry Reading: My God, by Logan Clarke

Performed by Val Cole

My God

Has not guaranteed me a reservation in Heaven
Nor has he threatened me with purgatory.
For he knows no purgatory-
Except mental
In the minds of the living.

I walk with God down the beach,
Lie back with him at night
And often am awakened by him
Just to talk
Or listen.

My God
Does not wish to be only an image
Playing hide and seek.
He did not set down conditions
In order to get close to him.
Man himself did that.

I did not find God in some hotel room
between the pages of Gideon.
Nor did he come to me-
Through the lips of men in churches
Who pretend to be holier than me…..

My God
Does not want me to live in fear
Of never being accepted by him
Simply because
I disagree with the organizations
Who are manufacturing and marketing God.

He placed me on Earth to live
And experience life in my own way.

He is there to guide, if I need guidance
To assist if I need help.
When he talks, I listen
When I talk, he listens……

During my time spent on Earth
I will serve my fellow man
If I am able
But never with the intention of “making points”
With God
For I can never bargain my way into Heaven.

My God
Accepts me as I am
And I accept Him as……..
My God

By
Logan Clarke

Poetry Reading: Intoxication, by Duane March

Performed by Val Cole

Intoxication

By Duane March

Ask me to describe my earnest fascination?

Ask me, might as well, pi’s endless calculation,

Words do not suffice to offer explanation.

Her eyes gleam a golden brown,

Athena’s owls, soft as down,

Her hair is a mane of chesnut fire,

It tosses savage with lion’s ire,

Or happy shakes, a foal without tether,

New with life and frisking in heather,

Her nose so cute, it makes me blush,

Her bronzen skin, my blood’s rush!

But what delights me most of all?

What comes first to my recall?

Lumps my throat, tightens my chest?

Her matchless smile above the rest.

For when she smiles, her eyes twinkle,

Her mane shivers, her nose crinkles,

My heart leaps, I smile too,

Instantly a helpless fool,

I can offer no plainer explanation,

She is my pure intoxication.