Author: poetryfest

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.

Read Poem: SONG OF THAT NEW DAWN, by Dwivedi

Please play our morning song;
One in which, our nation is healthy,
One in which, our people stand together,
Stand together, equally & love each other.

Please play that song,
which promises a bright nation,
Where no one questions our identity,
And, we are free to live our life peacefully.

Please play that song,
Where the deal is fair & square,
Where there is no place for nepotism,
And the system doesn’t function on the grounds of favoritism.

Promise that notion of a nation,
Which respects each unique soul,
And provides peace and love.

Read Poem: EGO TRIP, by Allegra Larson

Do you ever get on that with yourself?

“I just want”
“I just want”
“I just want”

You’re not sure what it is
exactly
that you want.
You just know that you want it
badly
and that you don’t have it.
Maybe you can’t.

Soon the
desperation
takes the verb as
sacrifice.

“I just”
“I just”
“I just”

You don’t know what you “just”
with no action behind it.
Cemented in the repetition
like a dizzy top
or the earth around the sun.

And then the moderator
evaporates
in time
And you’re left with
a lonely
loathsome
vowel
drowning out the world
while simultaneously
letting it
swallow you
suffocate you.

“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”

Self-inflicted implosion like a dying star.

“Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.” — Art of Quotation

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Henri Nouwen, author, book quote from “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.18, HarperCollins

via “Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.” — Art of Quotation

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” — Art of Quotation

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” Albert Camus, book quotes from “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage Image: Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian

via “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” — Art of Quotation

“ One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. “ — Art of Quotation

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, from “In The Mecca”

via “ One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. “ — Art of Quotation

“You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet‘ — Art of Quotation

You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet Simon Armitage, poet, “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin Image: Ryan Stone

via “You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet‘ — Art of Quotation

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” — Art of Quotation

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” Judith Butler, author, philosopher, “What value do the humanities have?’”. McGill University speech, May 30, 2013

via “We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” — Art of Quotation

“Shut it down… Have to shut the whole system down / When I look at the future I see hope for you and me” — Art of Quotation

“All around the planet There’s a blindness that just can’t see Have to shut the whole system down” Neil Young, songwriter, song quote from Shut it Down, 2020 Shut It Down” Have to shut the whole system down Have to shut the whole system down People tryin’ to save this earth From an ugly […]

via “Shut it down… Have to shut the whole system down / When I look at the future I see hope for you and me” — Art of Quotation

In Memory: “No one told me when I was 7 years old that I shouldn’t shake the camera. That was the beginning, and I liked the way it looked, and I didn’t know there was any other way to look.” — Art of Quotation

Mr. Skrebneski often told the story of his introduction to photography: While playing in a park around the age of 7, he found an abandoned camera, which he dutifully turned over to the park attendant. “I took it inside and gave it to the lady at the desk,” he told The Chicago Sun-Times in 2000. […]

via In Memory: “No one told me when I was 7 years old that I shouldn’t shake the camera. That was the beginning, and I liked the way it looked, and I didn’t know there was any other way to look.” — Art of Quotation