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.

Timeless novels to shorten quarantine — archyde

Hours go by faster with a good book in hand. The quarantine turns into an opportunity to rescue those wrinkled titles on our shelves, waiting for us for so long. Are some of those eternal novelons to whom we have never just given a chance, from ‘Don Quixote’ to ‘War and Peace’ or ‘Les Miserables’, […]

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Read Poem: perseus, by kay gardner

i have died for beauty’s sake
she lured me with a poem
though it may break
a heart can’t ache
it if’s been turned to stone

i have heard the siren’s wail
(the beast in me was done)
the moonlight pale
a scrape of scale
and so my will was flown

i have seen desire’s lie
base lust was all i’d known
but when she sighed
her steady eyes
sent tremors to my bones

i have lived for beauty’s grace
abandoning my home
she tired of chase
concealed her face
and I have died alone

–kay gardner

Read Poem: Hope To my Green Eyed Gems, by Abbigail Elijah

Another tear travels down my
face And soaks my pillow
Oh what tears must meander down
your cheeks too!. . .
Motherless children, I wish
I could explain,
I wish you knew.

I look at myself, deep beyond
the eyes reflecting in the
mirror, only to see your
green whirlpools, staring back
at me, what a dazzling view.
Emerald forests of splendour,
do they sparkle?
Or are they dull too?

I know the Lord hears me when we
talk heart to heart . . . . .
Creator of those eyes we share,
wiping the tears, whispering
peace to each part.

Healer of souls, Redeemer,
Restorer,
He’ll replenish our days apart
Our future awaits,
a new journey,
our past will become blurred

Clinging to His Garment is MY
way forward,
please come back to me,
Lets build a new future,
a fresh start?
I long for you both,
like me,
I long for you to be freed.

A.E. 14-06-19

“Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.” — Art of Quotation

“Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.” Richard Flanagan, Australian, writer

via “Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.” — Art of Quotation

“If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing” — Art of Quotation

“If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing” Sri Chinmoy, “Opportunity and Self-Transcendence” by Sri Chinmoy, (p. 21), 1977.

via “If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing” — Art of Quotation

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Art of Quotation

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono, physician, author

via “It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Art of Quotation

“the coronavirus… cannot be cowed by Twitter posts… overcome by party solidarity… overpowered by campaign rally chants.” — Art of Quotation

“the coronavirus … cannot be cowed by Twitter posts… overcome by party solidarity… overpowered by campaign rally chants.” Mr. Trump, who is at his strongest politically when he has a human enemy to attack, has seemed less certain of how to take on an invisible killer. The role of calming natural leader is not […]

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“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.” — Art of Quotation

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. Saul Bellow, writer, book quote from Herzog

via “Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.” — Art of Quotation

In Memory: “Max, you have been the first and the best Stradivarius that I have ever had in my hands.” — Art of Quotation

Max, you have been the first and the best Stradivarius that I have ever had in my hands Ingmar Bergman, director, commenting on working with actor Max von Sydow (1929-2020)

via In Memory: “Max, you have been the first and the best Stradivarius that I have ever had in my hands.” — Art of Quotation