Genre: Love, Family
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Imperatives, Poetry by Divina Sobrepeña
Genre: Romance, Relationship, Love
You will love me and I will not
understand how you can see worth
in eighty pounds of cuts and scars
engraved like small, secret tattoos.
wrong art hidden even from you,
like that picture you took of me,
my polystyrene face and hair,
a plastic gaze and rubber smile:
the painting of an amateur,
a sad, empty imitation.
So, forget about morning texts.
Do not flinch if I break away.
Never you mind to wait for me.
Forget and go about your day.
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Boamorte, Poetry by Juan Antonio García
Genre: Relationship, Life
So long locked in words
And this sky?
Doesn´t this sky deserve
a serene death?
And it´s these words
that I long for
They glow as hidden lilies
delicacy in her petals
ray of sun
to her splendor
Thus I languish
across grey valleys
howling, tears
Doesn´t this sky deserve
a serene death?
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Performed by Val Cole
Poetry Reading: Vanquished by Melissa R Mendelson
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN – Poetry Reading by Derek Stephen McPhail
Ordinary Time – Poetry Reading by Robert Drusetta
Futurist I am – Poetry Reading by Stephen Karnaghan
Poetry Reading: Encounter in Santa Chiara by LindaAnn Lo Schiavo
Poetry Reading: Vanquished by Melissa R Mendelson
Performed by Val Cole
POETRY 7 questions:
What is the theme of your poem?
I try not to make a habit on writing about war, but sometimes I can’t turn a blind eye on what it does to us, inspiring me then to create poems such as Vanquished.
What motivated you to write this poem?
I have a drawer filled with old, either printed out or handwritten poems, and Vanquished was one of them. Most of the poems in this drawer have a date on them, but Vanquished does not. I know that I wrote this poem after 9/11, maybe even after Desert Storm, and I also know that something on the news triggered something deep within me to write it.
How long have you been writing poetry?
The thought of writing poetry never crossed my mind until the seventh grade, where two creative writing teachers encouraged me to start doing so, and in the beginning, they were small. But over the years, they have become a voice that brings out all that I have buried deep inside.
If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Edgar Allan Poe
What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
My poetry speaks to me when I write it, but once written, its voice might go unheard unless captured by someone, who can echo those words.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I recently finished writing my first Horror/Sci-Fi Novel, Lizardian, which can be found as an E-book on Amazon Kindle, and I have begun drafting my next novel, Darkness Dreams, which will be Mystery/Suspense.
What is your passion in life?
Writing.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN – Poetry Reading by Derek Stephen McPhail
Performed by Val Cole
POETRY 7 questions:
What is the theme of your poem?
Anguish caused by the perception of separation from the promise of abundance.
What motivated you to write this poem?
Compassion for the unnecessary suffering in the world.
How long have you been writing poetry?
since an Ojibwa healing ceremony cured me of autism, as a young lad.
If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
would love to have a full course meal with Mary Magdalene.
What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
always fascinated to hear my work interpreted by someone else.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
am also a screenwriter. last year, my supernatural western, “Outlaw Trail”, set in Texas and Oklahoma in 1858, was published by a company in New Mexico. currently developing a time-travel romantic thriller, “Dreaming Together”, set primarily in the area of Georgian Bay, between 1649 and the present.
What is your passion in life?
intimacy with Nature and kinship with those who walk a path with heart.
for the record, my previous recording of “To Whom It May Concern”, released on my “uncle Steve” CD, “Story Book Blues”, is online at: https://soundcloud.com/spunkyuncle-1/to-whom.
96 written for today – Poetry Reading by Dora Marii
Performed by Geoff Mays
Poetry Reading: Encounter in Santa Chiara by LindaAnn Lo Schiavo
Performed by Val Cole
POETRY 7 questions:
What is the theme of your poem?
The theme is temptation.
What motivated you to write this poem?
I was writing a suite of poems set in Italy, which included some on Italian saints, and then I felt one poem should take the reader inside a famous church.
How long have you been writing poetry?
My first poem was published when I was nine years old. My first play for the stage was written at 9, too.
If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Geoffrey Chaucer — because I wrote my Masters thesis on his narrative poems.
What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I am a produced playwright so I work with actors all the time.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Yes, I am a journalist and a dramatist. Additionally, I’ve written short stories, radio dramas, and I’m working on a screenplay.
What is your passion in life?
Picking up a pen and applying the nib to a blank page.
Ordinary Time – Poetry Reading by Robert Drusetta
Performed by Val Cole
POETRY 7 questions:
What is the theme of your poem?
A worker’s perspective on their ordinary, non motivating job
What motivated you to write this poem?
My observation of staff at work.
How long have you been writing poetry?
On and off, over 30 years
If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher
What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I have had two other poems done. Hopefully this one will be delivered with the passion and character I envisaged, because the other two (“Coffee”, “Free Entry No Return”) did not quite hit the mark.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I have written several screenplays, and have published two e-books.
What is your passion in life?
To make a difference in whatever I do.
