Category: new poetry

Watch the JANUARY 2019 Poetry Readings

Best of January readings performed by Val Cole

Poetry Reading: by Bare Imagination by Gabriel Saldie

Poetry Reading: Saint – Kathleen my Mum by Patricia Poulos

Poetry Reading: The Bombing of Tabriz by Mary Freericks

Poetry Reading: Dan’s Bogey Wall by Si Baker

Poetry Reading: Run Mama Run by Ruth AKA Rhscribbles

Poetry Reading: Unanswered Call by TAK Erzinger

Read Poem: Fear by Nishant Gang

Figment of mind or a horror for real?
Eclectic emotion bearing a dark seal,
A poisonous fruit that is hard to peal,
Remember how it made you feel?

Preying on our weakness and our emotion,
Crippling our every notion, it grows…
A never ending, never dying poison,
It runs deeper than our mighty oceans.

How to end it? Is the right question,
Some say by facing it, some say through devotion,
It starts by the act of confession,
To end it’s rein, to end it’s possession.

Every Fear is different in itself,
No one knows it better than yourself,
However to win over it you need the same tool,
Fear fear for it turns you into a fool.

Genre:- Fear
Writer:- Nishant Gang
Blog:- The Poet and the Pen

Read Poem: for the love of words by Michelle Crowningshield

There’s solace in her style
truth in her eyes
yet the stardust
fills her entire being with evolution…

Our nights are flown in rumination.
Dancing in the ether with our souls
while our earthly bodies entangle
In rapture.
I had no want before us
Now I am hungry all the time.
Desire burns through my being
painfully the further away you are.
Burning so bright together my heart chakra illuminates the future.
Magnetizing my embodiment of possibility.
The dreams we shared.
The reality we lived so good

Read Poem: Skeleton Key by C.P. Hickey

Skeleton key, skeleton key,
Dangling from your waist.
My door is locked.
Please set me free.
Unlock my blushing face.
Others have tried,
To no avail.
They couldn’t open me.
My guess at best,
About the rest,
They all had faulty keys.
But, you come along,
And promise more,
With your lengthy rigid torque.
Insert into my cylinder,
And make your magic work.
My bolt and latch,
A stubborn match,
For your working key.
Persistence and pressure pay off,
And start my liberty.
The action builds,
And with a twist,
My bolt comes all but free.
You turn the knob,
Complete the job.
Leaving me open, finally.
So, if your door won’t budge,
On this we can agree,
Find yourself the freeing magic of,
A dangling skeleton key.

Read Poem: THE SIMPSONS (2010) by Barrie Dudley Blake

Bart
Why are our cartoons always a mess,
With most of our family under continual stress,
Where everything we do seems upside down,
And everything we do goes around and around.

Homer
The Simpson’s Cartoons have an enlightening plot,
And they highlight the problems of the human crop,
With dysfunctional thoughts and dysfunctional deeds,
It’s clear that some should have been created as seeds.

Lisa
A lack of discipline and purpose is the true cause,
Because parents now have abandoned parental laws,
It causes greed, graft, negligence and corruption,
And all of the faults that result in disruption.

Bart
Then where do they come from with their dysfunctional habits,
A lot of their actions are like ‘headless rabbits’,
Commonsense seems like a thing of the past,
And surely their brain is made of nothing but brass.

Homer
Those involved come from all walks of life,
And often include both the man and his wife,
It involves politicians, lawyers, accountants and more,
And all of the people we have learnt to abhor.

Bart
Well, they don’t have ethics, direction or meaning,
And their actions are continually completely demeaning,
Demeaning to all who seek positive direction,
And detrimental to all who seek restitution.

Lisa
Well it’s not their fault, they don’t know any better,
Their parents couldn’t even raise a red setter,
It’s the fault of their parents through a lack of teaching,
And that’s why their problems are ever increasing.

Homer
It would be good if they could achieve restitution,
And restore human life to an honourable institution,
With ethics, integrity and personal pride,
And then their lives would become an enjoyable ride.

Read Poem: The Unwritten by Max West

No one likes to say there are days when words keep the unwritten away,

and that’s their best, that if we didn’t have at hand a pen it could just as easily be a gun,

a bottle, an unsuspecting victim, or a patiently awaiting needle,

any tool to wrench sense from what doesn’t, carve away at the emptiness,

farthest corner from a gift, a rope burning forward one more inch, lasso and noose,

not yet poetry, last lines are only for what survives, art only for eternity,

not this slack of guarantee we tremble fingers along, reaching because we must,

because darkness is long, that’s all we ever know, never how much

Genres: Dark, Death, Fear, Hope, Hurt, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Painful, Personal, Philosophical, Pressure, Redemption, Sad, Work

Read Poem: An Amorous Heart by Trizia Franca

Genre-Love

It is I
When the night prevails
To have been scorned
Abused and taken for none

My heart still existing
To have it bleed
Again and again
Forever it seems…

An amorous heart
It is I
Never a dull companion
For you my love

Let the blood run
Through my heart
And let it flow
Let it flow through my veins
Forever…
Let my heart beat
When life becomes dull
For in my heart
You will find love again.

By Trizia Franca ( Patrizia Franca Spagnolo )

Read Poem: Amethyst by Nicole Alvy

Where were you?
Were you playing hide and seek?
I waited an eternity for you.
Screaming for you to hear me from a mouth that only longed to taste you.
The sound of your voice shakes my soul.
The answers are locked away in a box that I’ll never be able to open.
I sit on a throne of hope.
Was it all a dream?