Performed by Val Cole
Category: performance reading
Watch the APRIL 2018 Poetry Readings
Poetry Reading: 03:00, by Selah J’ne
Performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Get to know the poet:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
The theme is pain through the night.
2) What motivated you to write this poem?
I had lost my little sister her lungs collapsed and i was really depressed so the poem really expressed my pain.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I’ve been writing poetry since the 3rd grade when I learned what an Haiku was haha.
4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
If I could have dinner with one person it would have to be Maya Angelou she’s my inspiration.
5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
It was a leap of faith and dedication to show myself that my work could actually go somewhere.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Yes, I write short stories, scripts, life hacks, etc.
7) What is your passion in life?
My passion is to become a positive influence to young artists no matter what their form of art is.
Poetry Reading: Fell In Love With You, by Kathy Scott
Performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Get to know the poet:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
How I met the love of my life
2) What motivated you to write this poem?
The love that I feel for him
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
Since I can remember (Knee high to a grasshopper)
4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
My Mom again
5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
Hopefully to find a publisher of my poetry one day
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I’ve tried but all I know is poetry
7) What is your passion in life?
Writing and making people smile
Poetry Reading: The Fisherman, by Robin McNamara
Performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Get to know the poet:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
Theme: About an old Fisherman making his final fishing trip.
2) What motivated you to write this poem?
Motivation: My father was a fisherman for 40 + years in Ireland living by a fishing village. In summer months I went on the boat with him in my childhood. The poem is a reflection of part of my childhood spent fishing.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I dabbled in my early 20s with poetry. Started writing again seriously about 10 years ago.
4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
The Dali Lama, to see what words of wisdom he can give me. How can I motivate myself to become a better person. To discuss with him his views on modern
society‘s relationship with technology & religion. Basically to be inspired by his presence.
5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
Why not! How often do you get an opportunity like this? It’s fun it’s a visual and vocal interpretation of a written piece of art. Make it come alive! Reach out to a wider audience.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Sports writing mainly football. Satire writing occasionally. Used to be a journalist writing about Health and Social Affairs.
7) What is your passion in life?
Emotional awareness of your surroundings. Appreciation of nature and art which inspires writing. The power of knowledge makes a mind stronger every day. Listen to your intuition. Acknowledge that you’re learning about life every day till the day you die.
WAITING, Poetry Reading by Vihang A. Naik
Performed by Geoff Mays
HANGER ANGER, Poetry Reading by David John Shafer
Performed by Geoff Mays
Get to know the writer:
1-Theme of poem?
Koyaanisqasti.
2-Motivation to write it?
The Muse.
3-How long have I been writing poetry?
My whole life really, I started when I was maybe 13 and I’m 28 now.
4-Dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would it be?
Probably Buddha.
5-What influenced me to submit to have my poetry performed by a professional actor?
I need the exposure if I’m going be an established poet. Also I do find something interesting about the idea of seeing a professional read my work and seeing that go out, seeing other people see that and maybe be affected, be moved perhaps.
6-Do you write other works? Scripts? Short stories? Etc.?
Totally. I write all kinds of different stuff, but mainly poetry and songs/song lyrics, particularly rap songs. I also write a lot of comedy sketches, jokes, and bit ideas.
7-Passion in life?
Serving the Muse as best I can. Creating great art.
Watch the JANUARY 2018 Poetry Readings
Poetry Reading: Im Zweifel zur Wahrheit, by Erich Ruhl Bady
Performed by Carina Cojeen
POETRY 7 questions:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
We can be sure on our way to truth if we allow (ourselves) to doubt. We need to doubt.
2) What motivated you to write this poem?
In an exibition I saw the installation of three signposts – two pointed nearly to the same direction – to the direction of truth and doubt – the other signpost showed the way to the opposite … the indecisiveness (deutsch: Unentschlossenheit)
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
Since about six years, even more since three years
4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Barack Obama
5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I think there could be the chance to increase the range (I hope I’ll be allowed to show the link on my pages…) – and the other reason: I would like to hear my poem spoken by another voice (because I’m a narrator as well – all my 50 poems are to be listened on AUDIYOU – https://www.audiyou.de/benutzer/smoothenergy99/0.html
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Sometimes reviews about books or films – in my main job (Journalist / Press officer) I write articles and speeches – The other side job is audiobook narrator (should be more 🙂
7) What is your passion in life?
I will never stop to believe in the possibilities of personal development and in the power of compassion and dignity – therefore sometimes I try to consolidate my thoughts and my deep sentiments into a poem – and my wife, my two daughters and my four grandchildren motivate me to carry on
POSTSCRIPT:
THE POETRY FESTIVAL is a real great project which brings together open minded and warm-hearted people.
Thank you for this grand idea.
Watch the NOVEMBER 2017 Poetry Readings
Poetry Readings performed by Val Cole & Carina Cojeen
The Bane of Whitechapel – Poetry Reading by Lee A Forman
Maybe, There Is Still Hope – Poetry Reading by Melissa R. Mendelson
INDIAN SUMMER – Poetry Reading by Vihang A Naik
FRUSTRATION – Poetry Reading by Patricia Marvin
Escape – Poetry Reading by Farzleen F Khan
Beautiful Dead Dragonfly Why – Poetry Reading by James Gaynor
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