They float around
the passages of my mind
searching for a place
they won’t find
I do not govern them
I let them roam free
discovering everything
inside of me
without knowing
they’ll never find an outlet
but they are not lost
they’re impossible to forget
though to my tongue
they will always be unmet.
– by Jade Cecilia Macauley
Genre: contemplation, silence and the power of the mind.
I see Him in the sunset, the colors of heaven floating by
Even in the darkness and stars shining from on high.
His design is all around me from the inside of a flower
To lightning striking across the sky revealing His almighty power.
Unbelievable patterns and pigments in the tiniest of bugs and frogs,
Infinite varieties in flowers, trees, cats, and dogs.
Embellished birds spread their majestic wings and fly
Over the rainbow and into the sky.
Multitudes of beauty if we but could see
Hidden miracles invisible to you and to me.
In our bodies, cells, and being
Scientists have wound up seeing.
Cells shaped like a cross holding all others in place
Surely in my searching, I have seen God’s beautiful face.
But my heart will go on searching until that glorious day
When I reach the shores of heaven and then I’ll be able to say,
After all the searching on every path I’ve trod
Today I’ve found Him in my heart and see the face of God.
” For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.” AKJV Romans 1:20
How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
I would love for readers to think about the meaning and the words, for it to touch them in some way.
How long have you been writing poetry?
I’ve been writing poetry for about the last several years, and I have been writing Fiction for about the last thirty years.
Do you have a favorite poet?
My favorite poet is TS Eliot
What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I have been trying to record myself reading my poems and I jumped at the chance to hear a professional actor do it. I think it will ultimately help me learn to voiceover my own work.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I have written a novel, which I am in the process of querying, and several short stories.
What is your passion in life?
My passion in life is writing, although I also love martial arts, cooking, reading, and painting.
How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
I’d like for them to want it to be sung or put to music.
How long have you been writing poetry?
.Since I was nine years old.
Do you have a favorite poet?
Emily Dickinson/ee cummings
What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
My script entry had its chops busted and was refused for performance, so I thought I would try a poem.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I write scripts but am probably going to take all the scripts I have written and turn them into or back in to short stories since they don’t seem to impress anyone.
What is your passion in life?
To be paid regularly for fiction I write. I would say writing but I am going to write no matter what, if it isn’t excepted, if it isn’t liked so maybe my passion is more like a goal.
‘Rogue Wave’ is about the way life and stress makes us feel, especially when things build up and
How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
I really hope that people will think about the imagery and be able to relate to the feelings and ideas that I’ve expressed.
How long have you been writing poetry?
I’ve been writing all my life, but I’ve taken my poetry really seriously for about three years now.
Do you have a favorite poet?
I like the work of many different poets and writers. My favourite poems of all time are probably Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and Alfred Noyes’ ‘The Highwayman’.
What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I stumbled across the Festival for Poetry site and submitted one of my poems. After browsing around for a while, I decided that having my poetry performed might be a good way to reach a new audience and make my poetry more accessible.
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I have published a collection of poetry called ‘Leaf’ and a collection of short stories called ‘New Horizons’. Both are available on Amazon and iBooks.
I also wrote a play called ‘The Shakespeare Omelette’ for my students to perform, and both they and the audience enjoyed it, so I have self-published that, too.
What is your passion in life?
I really want to encourage people to see things from a different perspective than their own, or to consider different possibilities that they might not otherwise have done.
I do that through my writing, but also through my teaching and the stage productions with which I’m involved.
The theme of my poem is compassion: I looked at a children photo that taught the camera was a weapon and stood up her arms! (the photo is attached below)
How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
Well, they’ll respond better if the photo comes with the poem print, but anyway the poem expresses a feeling of the way a person really wants to show itself to someone else!
How long have you been writing poetry?
I’ve been writing poems since my teen age
Do you have a favorite poet?
In the english literature Yeats and Eliot, in Spain Espanca and Lorca, in Chile Neruda, in Brazil Drummond and Moraes
What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I saw tweets of the festival, I’ve read some poems published and decided to submit
Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Yes, I write also shot stories, chronicles and novels
Intro: “A 9-year-old Alabama girl is dead after her grandmother and stepmother … Police say the girl was ordered to run for 3 hours as punishment for lying to her.”
Tears of Remorse
Forgive me
Forgive me
I only wanted your heart
Forgive my deception
Forgive my lies
I am but a child
I only want your love
See my tears of remorse
have pity upon my small soul
On and forwards I go
every day a blur
I want to come from the shadows into the light
I want your hand to take me there
Please…love me
please care for me
I want to go round and round
in the bright days of tomorrow
There are men who will steal your light
They trick you and break you
They take you and bring you to your knees
where they want you
There are men who get you to hate all you are
There are men who get you to lose yourself so much
That death seems the only way to re gain self
I dont hate these men
Thats the plan of the darkness
I dont want revenge and dont say all men are like this
I wont close my heart and shut down
I shall rise again
I shall fly again
I shall soar high
I shall reclaim all I am
I shall sing loud and bright
And celebrate the huge heart in me
That saw the signs
Knew this would hurt
but still jumped in
Not because Im weak or stupid
Not because I didnt have a choice
I had plenty of options
But because I believed in you
In your soul to rise above the temptation to play the templates of the past
Because my heart knew I could withstand this and would come out more alive
That to die again and again
Makes me immortal
Your crash and burn
Made me immortal
I rise and rise and nothing shall ever bring me down again
Where will you be when I rise this high?
You missed out on seeing me this fly
You missed out on the magic to come
And I dont pity you I dont hate you
I feel for your heart too scared to love a woman like me
But I will still love you from up here
I still love you
I have that much in me I can die and be broken come alive and still love you
Do you see what you had and let go of?
Shame for you
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