Category: poetry

Intimations of the Beyond, Poetry by Suzanne Miller

Genre: Life

  Deconstructing my own life
I hold onto keepsakes from the past
as I search for meaning
in the dross and filth of outmoded ways of being.

Like wraiths bedizened
in the wanton guises of desire
they attempt to seduce me back
into the hive
of busy, mindless activity.

Shaking myself free
I enter a new zone

a place of alexithymia
beyond the language
of the known.

 

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Tears of Remorse, Poetry by Debbie Lyn Jones

Genre: Dark

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

the grass at our feet
the wind in our hair

I want to be as one
I want to go with you

please love me
please see
my tears of remorse

Debbie Lyn Jones 2/26/12

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I rise, Poetry by Amber Agha

Genre: Relationship

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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ORCHARD’S SEED AND THE FALLING OF STARS by LiianVarus

 Genre: Dark, Family, Life

Procreation is a dying breed;
I am its hope, a sighing seed.
Nestled amongst foliage,
I hide from my heritage
between cavernous spaces
of Autumn’s dead leaves.
Coming from an old growth orchard,
it’s expected that I carry on our lineage.
Deforestation,
family ties uprooted,
all the deadfall;
I’ll live in the moss of their graveyard.
Ancient bloodlines circle through me,
but I won’t spin its rings.
Monumental pillars bracing infinite sky –
royal sentinels history, long collapsed;
an apathetic seed left tracing time elapsed.
This is why stars fall.
I will not grow tall.
Oh no, I will stay small.
I will remain insignificant.
I am a contrarious seed.
In the wake of another crashing giant,
leaves rustle through its thunder,
but I hold, I hold; still I hold defiant.
This is why stars fall
and will continue to do so,
until our great phratry is no more.

The orchard’s seed and the falling of stars –
How I yearn for that day to come.

~LiianVarus

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Contrast, Poetry by Tim Wilkinson

Genre: Rhyme, Life

Light’s defined by shades of gray
Night itself by day

Dusk by citrus skies arrayed
Dawn by gloom and fray

So what is love if not a heart
Awaiting, come what may

The thrust and pang, the anguished
Strain, of one who’s gone away

© 2015, Tim Wilkinson

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Delirious – Poetry Reading by L T Garvin

Poem performed by Val Cole

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

Unrequited love.

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

Remembrance of young love and burning passion that was not meant to be.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I actually wrote poetry as a child, but have just really concentrated on it within the past three years.

Do you have a favorite poet?

Many, but if I had to pick just one, it would be William Butler Yeats.

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

I would like to find an audience for my poetry, and I discovered the site via WordPress and enjoyed listening to some of the poems that were performed on the site.

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

Yes, I currently have a children’s book out entitled, Confessions of a 4th Grade Athlete with Crystal Publishing, LLC. I also write short stories, some have previously appeared in Texas Writers Journal.

What is your passion in life?

Writing, family, my pets, and finding ways within my power to help others.

Will’s House – Poetry Reading by Martha C Wallace

Poem performed by Val Cole

 
Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is family memories, based on my life as a young child visiting my grandparents.

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

I want people to recall warm wonderful memories in their childhood as they mentally are transported to my grandparents porch, hearing the crackle of the old transistor radio ( and incidentally Grandpa’s Cleveland Indians were in the World Series) to imaging pulling and tasting the sweet Concord grapes and mulberries.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been waiting poetry for around 5years while taking a creative writing workshop in college

Do you have a favorite poet?

I have many that I admire: Emily Dickinson, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Rita Dove, but maya Angelo tops my list.

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

My friend and editor Jen ran across your contest and encouraged me to enter. I value her judgement so I agreed to submit it.

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

I have written a food memoir ( nonfiction)and a few short stories which are fiction.

What is your passion in life?

To write, travel, and learn as much as I can about other places and people. To spread smiles through my words and cooking.To always be a compassionate advocate for the underhand and underserved.

 

Aylan lies face down – Poetry Reading by Angelina Llongueras

Poem performed by Val Cole

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

The effects of the NATO war on Syria on children, and on planet earth. Refugees, heartbreak, death, exploitation of resources, the death of the sea

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

I would like them to feel saddened, and appalled at the people who engineer these wars that are destroying humanity and our planet for the benefit of a few oil companies. I would like them to commit to world peace by any means necessary.

How long have you been writing poetry?

For a looong time.

Do you have a favorite poet?

I have several favourite poets…in English, Blake, Shelley…in Spanish Lorca, Machado…in Catalan Miquel Martí Pol, Vicent Andrés Estellès…

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

I am a professional actor and a poet. Everyone I have read this poem I have seen people have become quite emotional, I am curious it sounds in another person’s lips…

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

I write and have published plays, essays and journalistic articles.

What is your passion in life?

My passion is theatre, as an actor, a voice actor, a playwright, a director, a professor, and a researcher…My other passion is travelling, never as a tourist, always to contribute something, usually something artistic.

HER CATASTROPHE, Poetry by Rachel O

 Genre: RACE, LOVE, INTERRACIAL ROMANCE

Her catastrophe will lead you to ecstasy

Her Pain will teach you empathy

Her sorrows drain your sympathy

While her strength will challenge you structurally…..

Her caress will linger with your distress…..

have you begging for her to undress,

All, as her eloquence clenches to your very chest

Whilst you strive for that bounty we call his breast…….

She gazes at us all and requests

a simple retrieve,

from the bundles and loads and cosomos she holds

However, rarely seeking the latrine

Life’s Salient Saline…

Ever Silent as a stone, We a mixed bag of souls, as she boldy holds the bones of your erroded domes…..

And her breath will cast your energy……..

But will you recall at her eulogy?

Logged in you minds etymology?

Her androgynous antiquity?

Her grace spun like tapestry?

I quarry, will you even remember me?

 

 

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Sense of Time, Poetry by James Williamson

 Genre: Society

Time…

It never ends.
It never loses.
It never bends.
It never chooses.
Who to take.
Who to give.
Who should break.
Who should live.

Time…

Constantly goes away.
Constantly brings tears.
Constantly here to stay.
Constantly forms fears.
Fears of today.
Fears of all sorrow.
Fears of dismay.
Fears of tomorrow.

Time…

Holds no sense of self.
Holds no sense of existence.
Holds no sense of wealth.
Holds no sense of resistance.
Resistance from age.
Resistance from dying.
Resistance from rage.
Resistance from trying.

Time…

Builds wisdom within.
Builds beauty without.
Builds forgiving of sin.
Builds surety of doubt.
Doubt of finding peace.
Doubt of heaven above.
Doubt of wanted release.
Doubt of finding love.

Time…

Is made for reflecting.
Is made for giving.
Is made for projecting.
Is made for living.
Living for where time will take you.
Living not for where you have been.
Living with hope for the coming of new.
Living for it all making sense within…

Time.

By:James Williamson

 

 

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