Desire and being taken out of reality by that desire. Being utterly at one your lover.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
I would like them to have for a moment that feeling of being completely lost in someone else – that feeling where two souls become one, out of time and place.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
A few years
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
Not specifically, but I love Wilfred Owen, Hugh McDiarmid, W.B.Yeats, Coleridge and a wonderful local poet, Liz Berry who writes evocative, beautiful poetry about the Black Country, where I live at the moment.
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I have been writing bits of poetry for a few years but only for my own pleasure (or maybe as therapy). I have never had anything published. I thought it would be nice to see what other people thought of some of the things I do, positive or negative – it’s all feedback.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Sometimes – I am an inveterate scribbler. Bits of poems and stories pop up all the time and just tend to get scribbled down.
7) What is your passion in life?
Generally being creative – I write, sing, make jewellery, paint a little and play ukulele.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
Connect with people’s sense of adventure, whether good or not so good, in regards to love and life. To see and interrupt the humorous side of reaching and attaining goals when in being single offers all sorts of opportunities in finding partners, soul mates, company etc.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I have been actively writing poetry for 30 years. Started when I was 12 years old.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
No favourite poet or writer. There is just too much talent out there!
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
WILDsound is a hub for attracting a wealth of talent, creative pieces and people with solid know how for the ‘what’s next’ procedure. Generally a great showcase of quality work from dedicated creative people.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I write just about everything, although my writing time is allocated to poetry, screenplays and my freelance writing projects.
7) What is your passion in life?
My passion is writing without any doubt.
I love transporting readers and/or viewers to other levels. Screenwriting pushes all the buttons for me as a writer and a viewer of tidy, exceptionally, well-written scripts. Poetry is a close second.
MY QUEST FOR JUSTICE FOR JOSEPH AND FOR FOLKS EVERYWHERE TO HEAR AND BE INSPIRED WITH A DEEPER MEANING OF THE HORRIFIC INJUSTICE THAT OCCURRED AND THE TRUTH AND JUSTICE THAT GOD WILL BRING.
Watch MY JOSEPH, MY JAM:
Get to know poet Adrienne Miranda:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
FAITH, A MOTHER’S LOVE, AND TRUTH AND JUSTICE MUST PREVAIL
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
WITH COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING THAT JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED FOR JOSEPH.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
ABOUT 40 YEARS NOW AND THEN.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
I HAVE SEVERAL AND LOVE MAYA ANGELOU
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
MY QUEST FOR JUSTICE FOR JOSEPH AND FOR FOLKS EVERYWHERE TO HEAR AND BE INSPIRED WITH A DEEPER MEANING OF THE HORRIFIC INJUSTICE THAT OCCURRED AND THE TRUTH AND JUSTICE THAT GOD WILL BRING.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
MY BOOK, THE SCENT OF MY SON, IN GOD WE TRUST.
7) What is your passion in life?
T0 BRING GOD’S TRUTH, HOPE AND LOVE TO ALL AND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR A GREATER GOOD.
The January 2016 Novel Festival is proud to be performing 4 novel transcript readings from writers from all over the world.
Readings to be performed by actress Reetu Bambrah
Get to know the 4 winning novels and writers:
#1 – CHEERAGE FEARAGE, Prologue
by Kimberly Dana
Genre: Horror, Young Adult, Crime, Thriller
Welcome to Camp Valentine – a cheerleading camp with raging spirit. A ghost that is!
#2 – THE FIRST ONES, Beauty Chapter
by Regina Walker
Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Supernatural
A lonely and heartbroken vampire tries to prevent war that could result in the extinction of humankind. He discovers an unusually beautiful girl with abilities and what he finds out about her could alter both human and vampires’ existence.
#3 – THE FURLITES OF ARORIEL ON MATISSIA WINGS, Chapter 7
by Marie J. S. Phillips
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
On the cold distant world Aroriel — where primate species never…
We all slid into 2015
On the tremulous wave of last year
Surfing past years
In Jeremy Clarkson built time machines
Mercury chats to the stars in the dim light of retrograde moonwalking super moons
Awakened by the force of stars
Genres: politics,love,inspiration,revolution,science,society,death,rhyme and popular culture
2015 by Dawdu M.Amantanah
{Poetic Culmination}
We all slid into 2015
On the tremulous wave of last year
Surfing past years
In Jeremy Clarkson built time machines
Mercury chats to the stars in the dim light of retrograde moonwalking super moons
Awakened by the force of stars
Women walk below them embracing the sparkle like diamonds
Wearing dresses we can’t quite determine the color
Was blue the hue?
Most say glistening gold
No it must be purple
We all need to hold hands
Singing hymn’s praying in circle’s
Cause the mass shootings and police brutality
Birthed looting and revolution
And the pain of the slain
Drips like sewage in the ghetto’s all across the world
with no one sticking around long enough to pay attention
Hilary Clinton’s personal emails got more attention
While rockets are launched into orbit chewed on like gum by the atmosphere
And salvaged like precious metal
What a 2015 we had
Closer to Mars we are
Rest in Peace
Tamir Rice
Sandra Bland
Laquan Mcdonald
And the hundreds
Unnamed that were slain
I pray the cease of 54 years of limited cargo
Breaks the embargo between American and Cuba
I got 8 quarters in my pocket
Gas is under two bucks
What luck!
The blizzard of 2015 broke records even the abominable snowman gave up
This is just a poem
As the world jot’s down
Two thousand and fifteen ways to evolve
Yet each year we have more to solve
Goodell likes his woman’s ass flat, like a crepe,
ok not that flat, more like a pan-cake.
When he saw those footballs
in the AFC championship, it drove his jealousy up the wall.
2015 by Adrian DeBarros
Deflategate:
Goodell likes his woman’s ass flat, like a crepe,
ok not that flat, more like a pan-cake.
When he saw those footballs
in the AFC championship, it drove his jealousy up the wall.
Brian Williams:
Gave little white lies,
while staring at you with his pearly white eyes,
he said he was in a chopper,
he meant in the kitchen – onion chopper.
Super Bowl XLIX:
Rumplestillskin made straw into gold with a pact of first born line,
Russell Wilson made everyone’s jaw drop on that one yard line.
Ticking time and a ball thrown on a skewed line.
Lockette was locked – knocked aside on a whim
and Malcolm in the middle was back at it again.
Brady and the bunch made lunch,
Seahawks were hungry,
but the Patriots beat them to the punch.
Ferguson, MO:
Could’ve waited for backup,
instead,
bullets flew and Wilson backed up.
A painful state resides in Truman’s birth state.
Bess lived longer than her mate,
nearly one hundred years – Someone bless their state.
Sweet are Missouri peaches,
Whiskey Sour and Missouri teaches.
Ferguson, Independence, and Lamar,
all have their stories, near and afar.
The Arm of the law no longer reaches, instead,
bullets fling in its drawn out speeches….
Hong Kong Breast Attack:
Cop was real, Cop was for real,
he wanted to know if they were real,
so he cop’d a feel…
Judge asked for reel,
on a tape, her bloody nose was for real.
That’s all there was before the deal was sealed.
Lady didn’t give her consent,
Cop said an attack was her intent,
Cop cried nipple dent,
So three months in jail she spent.
That’s longer than Lent, I hope that Cop doesn’t make rent.
Loses all he has and doesn’t even sleep in a tent.
This Cop’s obviously not a gent…
I hope he wasn’t breast-fed,
he doesn’t understand – nipples are infant’s bread.
and not something to assault you or make you dead.
Instagram banned the word curvy:
Instagram, instagram, where do I place my pict-o-gram?
in-a-van, on-some-sand, next to a skinny man?
better yet, weightless – next to a-moon-man.
Discriminate against women’s weight?
solve the debate, take strides with a healthy gate.
Push open up the curvy gates.
You take em on a date, give em a diuretic,
hopefully they piss on you – water weigh-it
they’ll still look good even if they don’t shed-it.
You can’t even speak on the topic, so you can’t visually TED-it!
Ironic a Facebook turns face and snaps a photo-sharing app with 1 billion faces,
iconic curvy looks hashtagged with curvy hooks,
seemed to be your disgraces, so you removed them faces…
They’ll still be gorgeous, curvy, while marketing pays a moral-fee,
women curvy in floral bikiNis, hashtagging #Curvee
Women think about their bodies everyday,
at least one thought sad, one bad, all because of visual fads.
dammit I’m mad, a ban on curvy shouldn’t make you glad.
Women genetically have curvy parts,
we know you think the world is flat and you’ve lost your smarts!
Instagram has gone topsy turvy
becoming a big dummy, and afraid to say curvy.
Funny how your instagram logo has all curvy letters,
without curves you wouldn’t even get IT.
You really should revolve around the issue a bit more better.
Weigh more than a gram?
then you have no fans in a curvy band on instagram,
cuz curvy is banned, doesn’t matter if you’re woman or man.
You censor cuz your moderators really aren’t sure,
they can’t tell the difference between a naked Pauly Shore and a curvy Demi Moore!
Watch the winning screenplay readings Reetu performed in:
POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film. 