red wrists by Sanchana Krishnan
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Alone, Poetry by Anderson Gomes
Solitude gets loneliness a lot more than it should,
It’s not a word to despise just to be understood.
For alone no one is as it’s made out to be,
What you face is just an altered state of reality.
Alone in this world does every person come,
And alone again is how all will succumb
Why then is loneliness treated with such disdain ?
Genre: Motivational, Solitude, Philosophical.
Alone
by Anderson Gomes
Solitude gets loneliness a lot more than it should,
It’s not a word to despise just to be understood.
For alone no one is as it’s made out to be,
What you face is just an altered state of reality.
Alone in this world does every person come,
And alone again is how all will succumb
Why then is loneliness treated with such disdain ?
When it’s just another way of coping with pain.
People you do meet on your journey along,
But to be with you always never is anyone so strong,
The battle that they fight just as you ignore,
So are they not a part of your war.
Expect not too much for the world does offer less,
And only to those who persist does the world bless.
So curse me not that I traverse all alone
Treading life’s path my solitary candle has shown,
No matter the tears and heart aches all around,
I’ll still be smiling when alone I lay six feet underground.
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Assumptions, Poetry by Denise P. Isaac
Life in this world has become
So foreign with its people and style
Everything real taken as fake and
Because the majority will do it
Somehow you believe I will too
Taking no time to
Genre: Life, People, Relationship
Assumptions by Denise P. Isaac
Life in this world has become
So foreign with its people and style
Everything real taken as fake and
Because the majority will do it
Somehow you believe I will too
Taking no time to
study me
learn me
know me
You who are of
Presumptions
Assumptions
Presumptuous
Caught up in the cycle
Of hunting
Of fronting
Of wanting
Something
Someone
That you know nothing about
But yet longs for it
Because it appears to you
To be attainable
To be obtainable
To be Available
However, it’s degradable
To even have such a
Mindset that involves me.
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Read the best of NEW Poetry:
VOICE OF ADDICTION, by Chantelle Cherie-Cox
http://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2016/01/16/voice-of-addiction-poetry-by-chantelle-cherie-cox/
THE A.M., by Mazi
http://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2016/01/16/the-a-m-poetry-by-mazi/
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, by Coni Koepfinger
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/24/only-a-matter-of-time-poetry-by-coni-koepfinger/
HEART SHAPED BUBBLED, by Hillary Bryan
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/24/heart-shaped-bubbles-poetry-by-hillary-bryan/
GHOST OF MY LOVE, by Mandar Naik
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/25/ghost-of-my-love-poetry-mandar-naik/
MEMORY, by Tzoutzi Mantzourani
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/25/memory-poetry-by-tzoutzi-mantzourani/
THE PROBLEM WITH LESTER, by Damian Christopher
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/25/the-problem-with-lester-poetry-by-damian-christopher/
STRANGER IN LOVE, by Poetes Chantelle Cherie
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/26/stranger-in-love-poetry-by-poetess-chantelle-cherie/
MOON LIGHT, by Jennifer Martinez
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/27/moon-light-poetry-by-jennifer-martinez/
MINNIES LAST MOAN, by Helen Spisak
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/27/minnies-last-moan-poetry-by-helen-spisak/
THE SECRET LIFE OF A SHADOW, by Mahitha Kasireddi
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/01/27/the-secret-life-of-a-shadow-poetry-by-mahitha-kasireddi/
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The Secret Life Of A Shadow, Poetry by Mahitha Kasireddi
Claim you know them?
All the life forms?
What if I told you,
Of another class alive?
No, Don’t fetch, my pal,
Genre: Fiction, Life, Relationship
The Secret Life Of A Shadow
by Mahitha Kasireddi
Claim you know them?
All the life forms?
What if I told you,
Of another class alive?
No, Don’t fetch, my pal,
It is only one
And one for all
The tier of a moving car,
Rising smoke of a cigar.
Like the battered wheat dough.
Turns into anything
Intangible, faceless being
Can’t fit into a case,
Or a tightly chained cage
Look at you,
Foolish to capture a vestige!
A phantasmal silhouette
Cast on the curtains
Against the moonshine of a winter night
Gather some guts to tear it down
With a mighty stroke of a knife
Look, it appears behind your trembling spine,
Enlarged, contracted
Slid and disappeared
Isn’t it taking you for a ride?
Don’t draw any sinister plans
Your wisdom, sorry
A major shortfall.
Why do the gravest of crimes
Happen during pitch dark times?
A faint column of light brings in a witness,
Records the ugly sins of a poisoned conscious
If you are still wondering
What is so fluid as wine,
thin as air, quick as a butterfly,
Like a feeble water bubble,
Refuses to go invisible.
Let me reveal to you
To your own,
For a quite long time now,
The unacknowledged chapters
Of the secret life of a shadow.
-Mahitha Kasireddi
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Minnie’s Last Moan, Poetry by Helen Spisak
Be true to yourself the people say
But then there’s chaos and sighs of dismay.
Treat others and all that ‘jazzzzz’
The trouble is – I detest ALL jazz!
Minnie’s Last Moan
Be true to yourself the people say
But then there’s chaos and sighs of dismay.
Treat others and all that ‘jazzzzz’
The trouble is – I detest ALL jazz!
I’m irritated and show it full hilt
I could moan on You Tube with no fear and no guilt.
My saving grace I cannot be sure
My heart and soul are cleaning the floor.
My funeral commences and the organ groans
My goodness, I wish they’d retire tuneless Joan!
Poem by Helen Spisak
@helensays
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Moon Light, Poetry by Jennifer Martinez
I can’t read your mind but I can read your body
Let me tell you something I don’t tell you enough
What I feel can’t be described by words alone
Words are not enough to show so I will say this
Maybe you won’t understand, maybe in years you will
The light that you see in my eyes are from you
I’m in new territory but I understand what I’m feeling
Genre: Love
Moon Light
by Jennifer Martinez
I can’t read your mind but I can read your body
Let me tell you something I don’t tell you enough
What I feel can’t be described by words alone
Words are not enough to show so I will say this
Maybe you won’t understand, maybe in years you will
The light that you see in my eyes are from you
I’m in new territory but I understand what I’m feeling
But look at the sky at night, see with your heart
Feel the breeze slide on your skin smoothly
The moment of calmness and ease from the sky
Look at the moon smiling at you while you smile back
The light of the moon resembles the light of my eyes
Don’t forget that light when you can’t see me
That is all I will say now
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Stranger In Love…., Poetry by Poetess Chantelle Cherie
Late night on the I can’t sleep train… It just keeps going Nowhere Fast and Time Is not of essence unfortunately. The only thing I can think is Write a Write of Feeling that stows upon me this evening. And so with Her Magical Pen and this in heart she began ~
Genre: Love, Romance, Loneliness
Stranger things have Happened I must Say. It must lead to something greater than the unknown I pray it leads me straight to You and You to Me anticipation it has killed me before I feel it’s different this time though….. Beautiful?! One might ask: My Reply is only this to you, Beyond Beautiful He is indeed but of this you would only know if my eyes were yours for a moment in this time to see just as I see He. Stranger things as said have happened indeed. Scared? Yes!!!! Terrified if I must add, Not of One Another But of Each Self and what we both harbor. “What If” we just gave up He on I and I on He “What if” I don’t want that to be Our Goodbye; We Just Began this journey him and I “What if” Is not in Our Stars so why are we Fighting A War Within knowing The outcome of Our own self Battle Neither one of us has yet to win. I give you this very day the key to my domain my Sacred Place Very few have ever been allowed in please remember they don’t make duplicates be cautious yet gentle what your holding Is beyond repair if ever broken or filled with despair. One last thing I must write on the lines of your Soul, so if ever apart you may hear them whisper upon every beat of your heart: Not by Accident……Coincidence Agreed! Only Angels hear the tears of pain we cry the ones that fall from our eyes and flood our souls beyond our control… Perhaps we pained simultaneously that day for we may never know how our story was told only how it’s supposed to read: You ~ Me ~ Our beautiful destiny.
Copyrighted 2016
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Interview with Graphic Designer Tina Charad (Maleficent, Fifty Shades of Grey)
A Graphic Designer creates the props and set-pieces for film productions and works directly with the Production Designer. Depending on the period and genre, these can be newspapers, love letters, shop signs, posters, cigarette boxes, logos. Basically, they create the original materials needed for a film that haven’t yet been invented.
I was fortunate enough to interview the extremely talented Graphic Designer Tina Charad. In the last 10 years she has worked on over 30 productions including the films “Robin Hood”, “Edge of Tomorrow”, “World War Z”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “The Fifth Wave”, and “RocknRolla”.
Matthew Toffolo: Is there a film or two that you’re most proud of?
Tina: Well, in terms of pure indulgence, of being spoilt and designing beauty day after day, it would be 47 Ronin. Perhaps Maleficent too – for the same reasons.
Tina created images in the film “47 Ronin”:
Matthew: How long…
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The Problem With Lester, Poetry by Damian Christopher
It was clear Lester was an old fool
Perusing that which is Delphic
In vain attempts
To seek divine forgiveness
For a sweet tooth for sin
And maladies of every nature
Only to give invitation to fear
And impercievable things
He will never know
Nor comprehend
Genre: New Goth
The Problem With Lester
by Damian Christopher
It was clear Lester was an old fool
Perusing that which is Delphic
In vain attempts
To seek divine forgiveness
For a sweet tooth for sin
And maladies of every nature
Only to give invitation to fear
And impercievable things
He will never know
Nor comprehend
The fool,
Blind to his folly
In pursuance of the impish and profane
In time, discovers their true associations
And maledictory nature
Injurious and virulent
He is soon bedeviled
To an eternity of futile pursuits
And a congregation of shame
The fool,
Mute to the whispers of the trees
Cries of the wind
And counsel of wild things
Wages wisdom for lunacy
Peculiarly, the selfish loon
For his vessel is perverse
Habitual in enduring disgrace
And he is forever weary
The fool,
His fate, kismet quelled
For there are those
That lay eyes upon us
Regardful our every deed
For the the price of redemption loss
In the hands of the damned
Is their baneful inclination
The fool,
A slave to his every whim
Devoid of prerogative
And sweet reason
Clever in his naiveté
But moored by dark, grave principalities
Like a hoary beast of burden
Fallen from grace
Even unto his last days
In misery, He shall amain in vain
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