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Poetry Reading: 12:20th Freestyle — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Performed by Danielle Nicole

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Read Poem: COMING OF AGE, by Juan Carlos Valadez

Your brown skin, tainted;
scabs falling on the floor,
leaving a trail
for further inspection.
Blood dripping
on, the dirt of innocence.
Your ankles
bruised, branded,
shackled with uncertainty.
Stuck
in a web of insecurities;
with a high guard,
throwing straight punches,
fighting your demons,
believing that you
are dead inside.
Pieces of your flesh
bitten off by boys
confined to adult bodies.
As you move forward
dragging your bare feet,
with each crawl,
it is obvious
that you are on your last breath.
You are not
going to make it.
As you reach the center of the temple
defeated,
spreading your prophetic wings,
placing your gift on the altar.
As you gasp for air
I hear the yearning of your heart.
Smiling
as you transcend onto heaven
as a Salvadoran Goddess—
a title well deserved.

Read Poem: Sugar coated cracks of soul, by Taipenius

Sugar coated cracks of soul

Is it dull

Or is it all?

Let me burn with morning’s light

Flow away with seas delight

Higher than the eagles scream

Lighter than the sunlight’s beams

That are reflected from my heart

Oh, let me live the art!

Genre: Philosophical

Word to the Wise (Spiritual Word Of Day) — Poets Afterthought

“The Enemy Will Try to Label You With Everything You’ve Done Wrong. But God Only Labels You Forgiven, Redeemed and Restored! Wear No Other Label But His!” Good Evening, God is truly good all the time. God is truly good all the time. I pray the message speaks to someone’s heart/soul. God Bless

via Word to the Wise (Spiritual Word Of Day) — Poets Afterthought

Read Poem: 65 Valentines, by David Ehrgott

There were sixty-five
valentines for you
I colored the one from me
your favorite blue
I didn’t know
the whole world loves you too
with sixty-four adversaries
I guess we could be through

So did they all say
“I Love You”
or “be mine today
& every day
I want to be your valentine
Be Mine”

or did they say that “I
only want to love you”
and after twenty solid years
could it really be we’re through

There were sixty-five
valentines for you
I colored the one from me

your favorite blue

Read Poem: A DREAM ALIVE, by Pranjit Das

A Dream Alive

1.
Reconciliation of some dreams old,
But I have lost seeing such dreams, long back
Since days, many months and years ,
Even ages and eras are gone,
Yet such dreams emerge as wild hounds/ dogs.

2.
Tireless lake sees the oldest pale lady,
Wandering on it’s shore in twilight.
How she turns my dream scary, gradually,
With her laughter dipped in melancholy,
An atmosphere gloomy with the sad song singing,
“..home, will my Sona return…”

3.
Hand in hand, walking with my grandfather,
Crossing the same wooden bridge every day!
Across which I discover his bloodied body
On the footpath lying,
Struggling a breath but can’t,
As he already dead!
The dream grow more frightful.

4.
Waiting eternally under the same Pine
With a heart palely heavy.
Promises get broken,
Break not such dreams.
My body goes chilling cold!
May be a heartless body destined so.
Genre- Philosophical

Poetry Reading of: Country of Long Winters, by Paul Bamberger — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Performed by Brian Scott Carleton — Edited by Kyle Drier Casting by Sean Ballantyne Produced by Matthew Toffolo

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Poetry Reading of: Lucifer’s Grief, by Charbel Tadros — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Performed by Brian Scott Carleton — Edited by Kyle Drier Casting by Sean Ballantyne Produced by Matthew Toffolo

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Poetry Reading of: Homlo: Life is about the Light, by Bheku Khumalo — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Performed by Brian Scott Carleton — Edited by Kyle Drier Casting by Sean Ballantyne Produced by Matthew Toffolo

via Poetry Reading of: Homlo: Life is about the Light, by Bheku Khumalo — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.