Category: 2016 poetry

SOCIETY Poetry Contest

Extended Deadline September 10th. Submit a poem that’s about SOCIETY and get it made into a movie. 

Accepting any poetry in any genre or length that’s about SOCIETY in any way.

All poems will be posted on this network. Over 95,000 unique visitors a day. The winning poem will have their poetry made into a movie. SPECIAL NOTE: Every single entry will get their poetry performed by a professional actor and made into a video.

The RULES are simple:

1. Write a POEM that’s about SOCIETY. Send it to this contest for $20 and it will be POSTED on this site guaranteed for 100,000s to see. Plus, every entry will get their poetry performed at the festival and made into a video. (you own all rights to this poem and whenever you want it taken down, send us an email).

2. Email your POEM to submission@festivalforpoetry.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format or just cut and paste it into the body of the email.

3. SUBMIT as many poems as you like. One fee per poem entry.

4. The poem can be anything about SOCIETY. An event/situation about any SOCIETY in general.

5. PAY THE $20 SUBMISSION FEE. Guaranteed post on this network. Results to be emailed by September 10th.

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Watch Recent Poems made into a MOVIE:

Best Night, Poetry by Roderick Dupree

Genre: Sex

 

Best Night by Roderick Dupree

It was smooth music and red wine

Two seductive companions with compatible signs

Such a young night as temptation feeds our urge

Mother nature sneaks inside while pillows hides the emerge

My stares and kisses gives me the keys to her chamber

Blood pumping and emotions arouse but none in anger

Cool temperature but it feels like a sauna

Two people in one room creating that magical aroma.

So so so deep i slide inside her heavenly gates

The sounds of the ocean water in which I help create

Boom boom boom is all the neighbors hear.

But ooo ooo ooo is coming from my dear.

Rocking to the beat and moving with the waves

A certain spot was hit that made me her “daddy.”

Different positions required the same goal

Penetrate good enough for her body to lose control

An artistic back filled with sensational infatuated love wounds

A masterpiece of love and fire created in a broken cold room

Lip biting, loud moans, shaky thighs, and crinkled toes.

A fulfilling tongue extracts her ocean flow deep into my soul

No need for choosing sides to avoid the wet spot

Drinking from the fountain of you was so refreshing to leave a drop

Repeatedly pound for pound in different rounds.

Whispers of love affected by sensational sounds.

We were on the bed, the floor, the couch, and in the kitchen

So hypnotize into each other there were no need for intermissions

No words from that night ever played as the days passed

Long drives home thinking of the best night I’ve ever had.

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Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

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Melody, Poetry by Alex Pauley

Genre: Relationship, Romance

 

Melody by Alex Pauley

 

The melody my heart plays is a ragged tune that is not easy on the ears, as it holds all the broken pieces of me with it.
The memories of past mistakes, the pain of love loss, the regret that stays with me until my eyes close at night,
this is the melody that my crying heart wishes to play, as if it’s a call for help.
It wishes to be touched and to be restrung once again, as if it had never been broken at all;
It seeks to be heard and in turn be told great things, it craves tenderness and devotion that it has never known,
my heart plays a sad song, a song of regret, a song of sorrow, a song of depression, a song of joy, a song of sweet memories.
it cannot help, but to play what it feels, all it can do is express those feelings that are pent up within,
the melody may be off and hard to listen to, but it is one that is ever playing, whether ignored or unheard.
It shall continue playing that sharp off-key tune, until it receives the care it needs.

 

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Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

Watch Poetry performance readings:

Watch Poetry made into Movies:

Love,… not the Rules, Poetry by Charles p.Banks

Love,… not the Rules  by Charles p.Banks

 

I kiss with two hands

coz I’m a Hungry man

Hunger for those liPps

manners polite fools do..

a feast famished delicate rules…it’s

You i treasure .. never enough

liPps juices glisten flavorful licks

don’t measure… just the more

of it …behold i consume U

 

I kiss with two hands

stands the appetite

crazed  the more…fuller

pull yoU in… closer…

mo fuller…tongue moves

smooves skins delights in

shallowin’ the soul sin.. bit

bites…creativin whole..

pleasures…in spaces…

beginin anew

“De novo “

 

I kiss with my 2 Hands

a bite of a primitive

rules be damned…

I see my prey…we

no wat’s in the way..

feast… nor famine

beasts released prey eacH

how/why/ I should we/ no

lest we forget ~nor never forgotten

we kiss with two hands

6/5/16 seaBe

 

 

 

 

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Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

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A Slow Train to Gwalior, Poetry Video by Amitabh Mitra

Genre: Love

A Slow Train to Gwalior

Amitabh Mitra is a poet, visual artist  and a medical practitioner at East London, South Africa. He heads the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital, Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. Widely published, Amitabh’s love poetry revolves around the city of Gwalior, India to which he originally belongs.

Amitabh Mitra
http://www.amitabhmitra.com

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Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

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From within her rib cages, Poetry by J. Liethers

GENRE: painful, motivational, philosophical, society

“From within her rib cages

sprouted a mound of
wishbones
(galvanized by miracles that’ve died
in
daydreams)
instead of a spine

& when the storm
christened her
it pulled on the forks
and left w/ the bigger halves.”

– J. Liethers

 

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Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

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A Black Women’ Plea, Poetry by Latonia Sears

Genre: Life, Society

A Black Women’ Plea 
 by Latonia Sears
 
 
I am so tired of all the death an destruction 
the collection of lifeless bodies is reaking 
and has left an odor 
 
The smell of injustice is fowl  
and is leaving a strong scent in the air 
the disgusting fragrance of death 
 
While all of the victims families 
watch all of these black men 
taken down and laid to rest 
 
No politician or public servant  
had the forsght to shed a tear 
it only hit home for them  
 
when some of their comrades 
were taken away from here 
even then they still won’t stop this and quit 
 
To serve and protect or protect and serve 
either way it always turns to death in the end 
like they hate us and are not interested in making a mends 
 
They are taking lives at an enormous rate 
most of the time it is out right murder 
fueled by racially motivated hate 
 
The life of a black man has no worth to these servants 
not the lives they have taken or the families 
they caused so much sorrow 
 
Knowing their husbands, fathers and brothers 
won’t be here tomorrow although throughout 
time we have continued to survive 
 
Even for all this time  
while we have been continuously 
been persecuted and shoved asside 
 
 
We will stand up and say enough is enough 
and we are not taking it anymore 
remembering to show unity as we walk through that door 
 
Black has always had black power  
not power over black 
wev’e already won that fight 
 
We are Americans who demand justice 
because we are a part of this country 
our contributions are endless 
 
 
 
We have fattened the pockets of many 
some wrong, some right 
some who are not afraid to stand up for what’s right 
 
If Martin were here what would he do? 
What about Malcolm or Mandella  
what would they say and do? 
 
It has become a national crisis 
none of us are safe  
from these men in blue 
 
“By The People” “For The People” 
are these the same people  
as me and you 
 
 
 
 

 

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Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

Watch Poetry performance readings:

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Watch the July 2016 Poetry Readings

Watch the poetry readings from July 2016.

These Shoes – Poetry Reading by Latonia Sears 

Vntitlxd – Poetry Reading by Xzaviar Allen 

SUBLIME LOVE – Poetry Reading by Bindu Midha 

MONET – Poetry Reading by Caroline Clemens 

Tooth and Nail – Poetry Reading by Dudley Clarence Sturgis IV 

My Life Tumbled and I Fell – Poetry Reading by A Goomer 

9 VERSUS LOVE – Poetry Reading by Karoline Lehner 

The Eternal Dance – Poetry Reading by Michelle B Assor 

Poem For Tranquility – Poetry Reading by JoyAnne O’Donnell 

North of Tombstone, 3 A M – Poetry Reading by Doug Stanfield 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These Shoes – Poetry Reading by Latonia Sears

It came to me that people judge from a outward observation of another human being. Instead of finding out who that person really is inside and out. I think everyone has worth I don’t care what their circumstances are at that moment of our encounter.

Poetry performed by actor Val Cole.

THESE SHOES by Latonia Sears

Get to know poetry writer Latonia Sears:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

It came to me that people judge from a outward observation of another human being. Instead of finding out who that person really is inside and out. I think everyone has worth I don’t care what their circumstances are at that moment of our encounter.

2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I would like for them to be inspired and think about how a person can be looked down on because of his appearance. Or because he is not what some would consider something special in this world.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

6 years

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

Maya Angelou

5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

Because I don’t know of any other site that offers the kind of exposure that the poetry festivals gives virtually unknown poets and writers.

6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Yes I have 2 self published novels. Also working on a new book I would like to release in the fall. I love writing anything of any nature and subject.

7) What is your passion in life?

Writing

Vntitlxd – Poetry Reading by Xzaviar Allen

Poetry performed by actor Val Cole.Va

Vntitlxd by Xzaviar Allen

Get to know poet Xzaviar Allen:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poems was sexual intercourse. A vulgar/inappropriate subject maybe, but the inspiration behind the pieces drove me to write in such a way.

2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I’m not sure how people will react to these particular poems; people usually like them, but it depends on who’s reading.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I wrote my first poem in the fifth grade. Ive been hooked ever since.

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

My favorite poets are modern-age poets. J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Jay Z, Kanye West, etc. Hip Hop is a form of poetry; I write my “poems” as though they were song lyrics.

5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I found out about WILDsound kind of randomly; I thought it couldn’t hurt to submit my work to somebody. Maybe they’ll like it!

6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I wrote a short story in college for a class project; I wouldn’t mind writing a script though. I guess it depends on what mood I’m in and what inspiration I have at the moment.

7) What is your passion in life?

My true passions in life are poetry and music; even so, I am skilled in other areas. I currently serve my country as a soldier in the United States Army.