Category: Uncategorized

Genre: dark, depression, bipolar

Chaotic simplicity
by Kelly Rice

I struggle to put words into sentence
For my mind is full of emptiness
Words are familiar
But don’t define meaning
Until the sentence structure
Is so tight it is suffocating
And inhaling vernacular
Exhaling rhythm
And metaphorically speaking
Behind the door of a room
That enters into apostrophe
That’s been resting in bed
For years in silence
Till now somehow
Something inspiring
Sparks up concepts and ideas
Of constant words flowing
And flooding into
A computer desktop
Placed on a table
Covered of garbage
And cigarette butts
Overflowing in a ceramic ashtray
I have no other option really
Except to create words of chaos
Subtly turning them into simplicity

Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

Genre: Adult, Sexy, Love, Relationships, Romantic, BDSM, Kink, Fetish.

Shatter Me
by SubSimSive

These binds aren’t as tight
As your grip on my heart
You have it in your hands
You can tear it apart

You can whip me, spank me
Do what you please
With my throat in your grasp
I won’t stop your squeeze

I’m fragile, brittle
My being in your hands
So I stand before you
Prepared for your brands

Slap my face and
Tell me you love me
Crop my ass then
Stroke me so gently

Make me want you
Inside my skin
Show me the strength
In your wicked grin

When you fuck me
Let me touch you
When you fuck me
Thought provoke me

Fuck my body
Hear me scream
Fuck my mind
Shatter me

Deadline: FREE POETRY Festival – Get poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:

Genre: Dream

Last Night I Dreamed of Leonard Cohen
~ Margaret Lonsdale (@fhaedra)

Last night I dreamed of Leonard Cohen
in silhouette on a park bench in Montreal
He had a paper bag beside him
in his hands he held nothing at all

I thought to just keep on walking
as I have never met Leonard the Man before
But in the dream I took a place beside him
and he asked me ‘Who’s been keeping score?’

In a hush I answered, ‘I am still learning,
but like you, I am not so sure of this game.’
He smiled then so slowly as he buttoned his coat
‘It’s alright now. You are not to blame.’

(Hey hey what can you say? I’m going down to the river to pray.)

We watched as the moon turned to ashes
its fragmented silver covering cool ground
A cowboy drummer sprinkled orange peel
served…

Watch the Poetry Reading EULOGY FOR A BAT:

Poet read by actress Val Cole

Get to know writer Kathy Figueroa:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The main theme of “Eulogy For A Bat” is appreciation for this beneficial but, often, maligned or vilified critter.

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

My poems have now been published a collective total of over one hundred times in the Bancroft newspapers and it’s always great when I go downtown and folks tell me how much they liked this one or that one, or that they’ve actually clipped some out to save. As far as poetry readings go, I hope that people find my work entertaining. To me, the reading has been successful when people smile, applaud, and look like they’re enjoying the event.

3) How long have you been writing…

My poem, he + she, celebrates the special and beautiful love between Lita and Tolliver. It was
performed at their wedding. (Tolliver is my son and Lita is his college sweetheart.)

– Poet cc lindh

Watch the Poetry Reading of he + she:

cc’s poem was performed by actor Frances Stecyk at the December 2014 WILDsound Writing Festival.

Submit your own poetry to the festival and we’ll have it performed:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest…

Let’s get to know poet cc lindh more:

Matthew Toffolo: What is the theme of your poem?

cc: My poem, he + she, celebrates the special and beautiful love between my son and his wife.

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

cc: I hope that he + she makes people happy and also makes people feel the vibration that is love. I also
hope that my poem pulls up…

Poet cc lindh is become a WILDsound Festival staple.

Here is her recent poem boyz will be boyz:

Matthew Toffolo chats with cc lindh:

Matthew: What is the theme of your poem?

cc: My poem is about my first experience with the feeling of being just a toy for boys. It was the first time that I can remember feeling terrified and powerless at an extreme level. I also wanted to write something that speaks about sexual abuse and rape as more than 20% of women/girls are violated. This is an unbelievable statistic in this day and age.

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

cc: I hope that my poem generates dialogue. It is only through talk, discourse, that problems have a hope of ever being solved. There’s a long road ahead, unfortunately.

Matthew: How long have you been writing…

Watch the Poetry Reading of there’s a hum by cc lindh

Interview with Poet cc lindh:

Matthew: What is the theme of your poem?

cc: i like to think that my poem is about a force ( a hum) that surrounds our beautiful world. this force is always with us and i hope that it is with us when we pass away.

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

cc: i hope that my poetry brings beauty and love to people. i hope it brings them peace. there is a kind of comfort in truth, i think…

Matthew: How long have you been writing poetry?

cc: i have been writing songs and poetry for many years.

Matthew: Do you have a favorite poet?

cc: Ms. Emily Dickinson.

Matthew: What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by…

SYMMETRY, Poetry Reading by Michael Bornn

Poetry performed by actress VAL COLE

Matthew Toffolo interviews Michael Bornn:

Matthew: What is the theme of your poem?

Michael: the theme of this poem is facing the futility of finding closure.

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

Michael: When someone has read a poem and feels the urge to say something to the writer about the piece, it is the greatest reward. it’s also the greatest lesson we can be given about our craft and how well we have done in our attempts to convey what we were feeling. What is said by a reader is pure honesty and always commands my attention and gratitude. no one would ever half heartedly take the trouble to express their indifference to a poem they have half read.

Matthew: How long have you been writing poetry?