Author: poetryfest

Genre: Rhyme, Life

TOMORROW by Olumayowa Fagbure

Thoughts of the future
Give me heart pains
Irregular hear beats
and shortened breaths

Sometimes I get dizzy
with the thought of tomorrow
This inevitable, fearful thing
At the forefront
That occurs every new day

The fear grips me
Tomorrow wraps its bony hands around my speeding heart
whispering clichés about
the past

Tomorrow seeps slowly into today
Like a vaccine in an injection
Piercing the darkness
with its finger nails
To reveal a rouge today

Anxiety flutters in my mind
At the sound of “soon”
And tomorrow grows closer and closer
Until it is today
And I begin to worry
About the new tomorrow

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Genre: Romantic / Relationship

Dark Night Bright Dashboard by Nofaithpoet

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A night away under investigation

Can’t wait transportation already planned

Holding hands waiting for time to come

Eyes wide today we run

Find us some world quiet to become new

No more waiting for the right time to go

Inspiration stuck opportunity flashed

Symbols and landscapes lapse but our memories last.

Raindrops representing minutes we longed for rest

Arms missing arms never able to be warm enough

Eyes wide tonight we find shelter

Then we will discover more brighter scenes

Living out our explicit dreams

Our story has us away from here

Be ready when I call you.

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Genre: Dark poetry

Child of midnight by Anthony Silva 

“I am a child of midnight.
A zealous priest of black.
The shadow of necessity.
Sustaining light by contrast.
The night’s keeper,
who releases the praised day.
I am the downpour,
that allows the intangible rainbow.
The hidden weakness of pride,
found in all men’s hearts.
The indifferent ear given,
to the evil you speak in solitude.
I am the restless fear,
in all of your secrets revealed.
My lying tongue,
gives truth to your love’s lips.
I am the selfish freedom,
had in all your regretful nights.
The saddest story,
you learn absolutely nothing from.

That is why.
I am hated.

That is why.
I am cursed.

But…I am a child of midnight,
and victory I find in my dark purpose.”

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Genres: Closure, First Love, Heartbreak, Hurt, Love, Painful, Relationships, Sad

Heartbreak By the Lake by Forrest Jamie

I anticipated the heartbreak
I knew would come
because I just couldn’t leave
these feelings and questions unresolved.

And here it is;
first heartbreak
(over eight years in the making)
delivered by
first love.
A new kind of pain
and it’s my own damn fault.
Of course
a girl like me
could never be enough.
Not for you.
But I knew it all along.

So this is what it feels like.
And this is the beautiful view
of the lake we saw
on a Monday afternoon
when you broke my heart.
My eyes began to mimic the waves
while you admitted to your lies.

Did you feel
anything
as you sat there beside me
watching me cry,
watching
my heart breaking?

Until forever fades,
I will love you forever, I’m afraid.

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Genre: Relationships

ACID RAIN by Cathy Hammer

Embellish it, boy, embellish it again. You can’t tell the truth you’ll lie over and over just to win. Don’t forget to tie your lies up with pretty little bows to make them just a little bit easier for me to swallow.

Boys like you are like acid rain and girls like me take it over and over again. Boys like you like to hand out pain and girls like me just seem to stay.

Oh, boy, what a trip you are you make me want to run my keys down the side of your car. Oh, baby, what a day it will be when I take one last look at you and set myself free.

I don’t want to be here I just want to go. I’m so damn tired of living under a blackened rainbow. I don’t want to stand and…

Genre : philosophical

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Clarity visited by Sharda Bhakhri

It took a while and yet is imperfect.
It is clear … but there are chinks
It would be easy to lose this vision
Get it all muddy and blurred
Like breath on a mirror
But this rare ray,
Let me hang on to it …
Seize it before it vanishes and
Becomes the dust on the window pane on my existence.
She visits so infrequently , fleetingly.
It’s as though a flower bloomed
None witnessed, just the stem who bore it.
A self-acknowledgement , needing no praise , no applause but worthy
A quiet blooming in a desert, where nothing grew for a long time
Only cactus in the aridity of ignorance
And the piled up canker of all those careless words spoken by loved ones , strewn without a thought…
Loved ones.
In one swift lightning moment
The light…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: RINSE, LATHER, REPEAT:

Get to know writer Bud Scott:

1) What is your very short story about?

The perils of time travel.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I saw this on my twitter feed and love flash fiction and thought 140 characters was intriguing.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

It’s a Wonderful Life.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

Quite a few my blog is http://4doorchickencoupe.blogspot.com/
and I have a book of flash fiction/short stories up on Smash Words https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/113276

5) What artists would you love to work with?

Hard to say, I’d love to buy the following authors a cup of coffee and sit down and talk to them: Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Neil Gaiman and others that elude me at the moment.

6) What…

Watch the 140 Character Story Story: HERO

Get to know writer Justin Boyd:

1) What is your very short story about?

A young may living a very mundane life happened upon a car accident scene (a car skidded on ice and swerved into a lake and is sinking) and saved a pregnant mother from drowning. Great acclaim and minor local celebrity ensued as a result of his heroism, briefly catapulting his life into an exciting new direction of fawning interviews, praise and backslapping from strangers, and recognition of his heroism from local businesses and politicians. The story finds him one year later after the acclaim and attention have gone away and he finds himself back to his old boring life. He misses the recognition and lauding.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I wish to be a professional writer and this is…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story – BEYOND THE CONDIMENTS

Get to know writer Edward Case:

1) What is your very short story about?

It was a take on “boy meets girl.” I think we meet the most important people in our lives in the weirdest ways.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I was grocery shopping and saw one of the market’s workers trying to contain a spill of broken pickle jars. I saw how people were detouring around him with their carts and going about their business. I thought, I just missed a story here. So I made a new one and entered it.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I’m not even sure, because I’ve watched so many. So it’s probably some older movie like Blade Runner, which I’ve watched a ton.

4) How…