Tag: Poetry Festival

Poetry Reading: The Painter, by Theresa Pio

Performed by Elizabeth Rose Morriss

Get to know the poet:

What is the theme of your poem?

My themes are Inspirational but also dark

What motivated you to write this poem?

I was watching a Christmas movie while cooking lunch last year in December and this movie had rhyming poems in it. I’m not a poetry fan believe it or not it’s not my writing style but for some reason I managed to pull together this poem that same night in one sitting.

How long have you been writing poetry?

This is my first attempt at Poetry really I call it poetry fluke.

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Paulo Coehlo

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

What influenced me to have it read was that the poem has been sitting in my laptop really for nearly a year. I felt the need to do something with it other than it gathering cyber cobwebs lol

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

I’m more of a scriptwriter. I have written a musical and had produced it along with my sister. Since writing this piece I found myself liking poetry more and writing pieces more for children.

What is your passion in life?

Writing, and spending time with my son : )

Read Poetry: Work of a Writer, by Kinjal Jain

Blog Address – www.address2mythoughts.wordpress.com/blog

Every piece you come across,​
every word and line formed,​
taken right from the core part of their hearts,​
drawn from the deepest emotions,​
each sentence carved with brilliant artistry,​
hours worth thinking, re-writing & editing,​
reaching the zenith of their soul,​
inked the paper with calligraphic blood & sweat,​
like a personal diary meant to be read. 
A diary not to keep to oneself, but​
to transcend the people from natural to the supernatural​
to fill the world with the magic lying in their hands​
to just make the earth a beautiful place. 

 

 

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Watch the SEPTEMBER 2017 Poetry Readings

Performed by Val Cole & Laura Kyswaty

Poetry Reading: Morning by, Vihang A Naik

Poetry Reading: Isadore Greely’s Place, by DE Navarro

Poetry Reading: Blue Remembered Hills by Cas Greenfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read Poetry: Only One Uncle, by Melissa Palazon

Millions of stars in the heavens above,
Only one uncle to cherish and love,
Thousands and Thousands of flowers, and trees,…
Hundreds and hundreds of mountains, and seas,
Everything multiplied over an over,
Robins and butterflies, bees in the clover,
Many good friends to think the world of,
But only one uncle to cherish and love

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Read Poetry: Terrain Terrific, by Sujoy Bhattacharya

Toughness lightens your voluptuous jaws
with monstrous hunger
to engulf human edifice of excellent creation .
How
could you maintain silky softness behind your stony of
ruthlessness ?
The sky above watches with tears of reprimanding
scolds,
your crafty games you play to toy with the flimsy effort of
human beings-
helpless puppet to the capricious whims of your
restless nature .
Molten saps of petrified dynasties running
through your crevices –
whisper the incantation to revive the
dormant fossils awaiting for quenching its thirst for solar
radiation .
Your crude cajoling for witnessing human molestation
by your retinue ,
confer wooing suffering to earthly beings .
Poets and writers invest
on your infatuating aspects to reap golden crops .
You are a menacing medley of both creation and annihilation.
Your bridal attraction , your enchanting enigma
allure people to attend the
feasting ceremony you arrange to trap your victims .
The sky scolds
you wheedlingly for your crafty devices to caress creatures
to devilish death .
You muse mockingly at the shedding of
crocodile’s tears of the sky for the dying earth .

 

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Poetry Reading: Morning by, Vihang A Naik

Performed by Val Cole

What is the theme of your poem?

I have been always in pursuit of going beyond physical. Going beyond physics. I consider physical body is weak but the spirit is strong. Spiritualism, perhaps can be the theme besides other layers of themes. It may have multiple interpretations. Hermeneutics .

What motivated you to write this poem?

The impulse running underneath the is letting go of physical and realising the spritual.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I have now been writing poetry since more than three decades .

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Dinner reminds me of the last supper. I wish i was with nine disciples of Christ.

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

To me poetry is performance as well along with reading it out aloud with certain specific rhythm.

And Festival for Poetry has come out with indescribable idea for performance reading my some one who for other field of arts. An actor. It is always exciting to see how your poetry gets performed.

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

I practice writing poetry in Gujarati language ( my mother tongue ) besides translations I often translate Gujarati language poetry into English language besides my own Gujarati language poetry .

What is your passion in life?

The ultimate passion in life is to be human. I love this life where we are human beings.

Is it not true that when you wake up to see the world and switch on your television and you see all nations torn apart and that centre cannot hold …

Vihang A. Naik 😦 b. 1969 ) Indian poet writing in English.He took to teaching as a profession, serving in colleges since 1996 in Gujarat. He lives and works in Gujarat, India. He can be visited at http://www.vihang.org

Poetry Reading: Blue Remembered Hills by Cas Greenfield

Performed by Laura Kyswaty

 What is the theme of your poem?

The passage of time…

What motivated you to write this poem?

I live as much ‘in the moment’ as I am able and the smallest of events can inspire me – a twig cracking underfoot, the scent of Rosemary as I brush past. The ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ is the place I live.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve ben writing for 60+ years.

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

John Donne (1572 – 1631)

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

Some of my songs and poems have been performed by other artists and I enjoy a different take on my words, often revealing something I had not discovered myself in my own works.

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

I am a singer songwriter and Blue Remembered Hills is one of my songs. I am releasing an album in October 2017. I also write novels. And I am a painter.

What is your passion in life?

Words, Music, Art, Love.

Poetry Reading: Isadore Greely’s Place, by DE Navarro

Performed by Val Cole

What is the theme of your poem?

Never prematurely judge things by appearance and always expect the unexpected.

Also, secondarily, it is intended to simply be a scary thriller.

What motivated you to write this poem?

I was doing some genealogy research and found one of our family names to be “Isadore.” Isadore is kind of a spooky name to me, a name you would expect to find in a Transylvania manor. So I pictured this old, isolated manor on a hill with bats and moon glow and all the other “eerie” stuff and was inspired to write a poem about what it might be like for someone’s car to break down on a cold evening way out in the middle of nowhere and they have to take shelter in this old stone manor on the hill that is spooky and creepy, and this guy named Isadore lives there.

How long have you been writing poetry?

47 years

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it would be a lot more fun to have dinner with someone who is alive rather than dead. I’ve had some dates I thought were dead and it wasn’t fun. Ha! Seriously, it would be cool to have dinner with Robert Frost.

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

Thought it would be cool to have a scary poem performed and that it might be a good promotional tool for my other work, so I went for it.

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

I write short stories and have three published. I write business and quality of life articles, many have been published. I write articles about managing personal finances for GOBankingRates . com. I write articles about poetry and writing and I write essays about life, the world, society and more. I write science fiction/fantasy stories and am working on a novel. And of course, I write poetry, I have two full collections of poetry published, both have been received very well and I get some great reviews.

What is your passion in life?

Writing stories, poetry and non-fiction works.

Poetry Movie: What is Love, by Colin Guest

Poetry by Colin Guest

Narration by Becky Shrimpton

Editor & Visual Design by Carey Dieter

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

POETRY 7 questions:

What is the theme of your poem?

Love.

What motivated you to write this poem?

My strong feelings of love for my wife.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I started writing poems back in 1983 while working in Brunei. I have recently written a number of love poems for my wife, with two of them in the final four in WildSound Poetry Festivals, with another of my poems that Julian Ford read out online, in the final four.

If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

I think due to my love of writing, it would Le Child, whose writing I think is in a class of its own.

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

I think the words in my poem would appeal to many people, especially those who do not know the difference between love and desire. Also, by having my poem read out live, it acts to give more publicity to my writing endeavours.

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

I have written and had published two short fiction books, plus one re my life in Turkey where I have lived for over 25 years, and a memoir entitled Follow in the Tigerman’s Footsteps. This covers my working as an expat for nineteen years in fifteen countries spread throughout the Middle, Far East and North Africa. In conjunction with Voyage Media who think my memoir could be used as the basis for a television series, I have written a pitch, which is on a list that Voyage sends out to over 6,000 producers to see if one is interested in using it.

At present, Julian Ford, one of your readers is working on turning my memoir into an audio book. I am presently writing a novel, and had over 14 articles published in online magazines, and one published in a UK expat magazine. I also took part in a live radio show in America re my writing.

What is your passion in life?

My passion is writing and hoping that one day I might have one of my books used as the basis for a film.

Young couple wearing rings hand in hand
Red heart tree