Poetry Reading: not me by Jose Carlos Peliano

Performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is compassion: I looked at a children photo that taught the camera was a weapon and stood up her arms! (the photo is attached below)

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

Well, they’ll respond better if the photo comes with the poem print, but anyway the poem expresses a feeling of the way a person really wants to show itself to someone else!

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve been writing poems since my teen age

Do you have a favorite poet?

In the english literature Yeats and Eliot, in Spain Espanca and Lorca, in Chile Neruda, in Brazil Drummond and Moraes

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

I saw tweets of the festival, I’ve read some poems published and decided to submit

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

Yes, I write also shot stories, chronicles and novels

What is your passion in life?

My passion in life is to live in passion

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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(W)Ri{gh}t(e), Poetry by Tim Rizzuti

 Genre: love, choices, humanity, integrity, emotional, deep

Moments of clarity
Lead to temporary insanity
Where is my plan to be
How do I get to the next degree
Of life
Is it as hard for everybody else
Or do I have it easy
Should I be concerned
With my mind
And the state it chooses to be
Do I need medical help
Do I need holistic healing
Do I need my wife to stand by
Pray to god for a feeling
Or a sign
That everything will be alright
That everything will be alright
Writing helps the emotion
Seep throughout my brain
Down my spine
To my chest
Arm
Hand
Fingers
Pen
Ink
Page
Now the stage is set
All I need to do is

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JFK, Poetry by Nets L.

Genre: Political
Type:. Haiku

Titled: JFK

Hollowed footsteps
rhythmic death
stamps you dead
While processional silence
tunnels through the brain
carriage wheels
click stones loudly
through the shadow
of a man

Nets L
@netsy01

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 all a-twitter, Poetry by Persis Karim

Genre: Rhyme, Society

what’s all the twitter

from the tweeter

who can’t take the chitter-

chatter about the possibility

that he might be the cheater?

persis karim ©2016

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WHY DO PEOPLE HATE?, Poetry by Felicia L. Smith

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Genre: Discrimination

“WHY DO PEOPLE HATE?”

Why do people hate one another
Simply because of their skin?
Whether black or white, whether brown or yellow
We all bleed red from within.

Why do people hate one another
Because of their lack of much cash?
Because they’re not rich and driving a fancy car
Doesn’t mean they should be treated like trash.

Why do people hate one another?
Equality has caused an uproar.
Like it or not, it is a reality.
It’s something we can not ignore.

Why do people hate one another?
A waste of energy throughout the day
With all the problems we have in this country
Stop hating, stay humble, and pray.

~Felicia L. Smith~

 

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An Election, Poetry by Diana Benskin

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Genre: Society, Political

America is in mourning
Today her tears are falling
Those votes that were casted
Seem to’ve been wasted
on the President elect
Whom many now reject

This Presidential Win on which injustice ,fear and divisiveness was erected
This is the premise on which he was elected
The diplomacy portrayed is faux
A breeding ground for discrepancies and misogyny to grow

Now is the time to stand firm and let your voices be heard
your vote is your word
That chose the Popular and rightful president
Not some unhinged and intolerable government

The crusaders cries in the street
will become louder when the numbers meet
Let the crusaders pass
For a snake has just slithered through us in the grass.

In the words of George Nathan
all the above will happen
when no votes are cast by you the good citizen

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Moon Sparks, Poetry by James R Adams II

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Genre: Life

The Sun threw sparks of Moon Light
To warm the waters of the Gulf
The sparks they danced and flickered
The World lost in myself

A menthol smoked me deeply
As I rode a Marlboro Rail
The hot Gulf air it breathed me
Too distracted to even tell

My gravity it pulled the Earth
It could not separate
I sucked its helium through my feet
It could not float away

I swore again this one last time
It would never be the same
I payed my toll, the bridge crossed me
As the sky below me rained

The Emperor kept on dancing
No pitchforks pierced his feet
The demons all were laughing
Their works both incomplete

Why then won’t you tell me
It’s so hard to separate
The madness from the music
Our Illusions from our Fate

Most mysteries go unanswered
No need for question marks
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