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My First Love Letter – Poetry by Madathil Rajendran Nair. Read by Dan Cristofori

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Get to know poet Madathil Rajendran Nair:

What is the theme of your poem?

CHILDHOOD INFATUATION

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

I WOULD LIKE THEM TO DISSOLVE IN SWEET NOSTALGIA AND RELIVE THERE OWN CHILDHOOD MISADVENTURES.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I BELIEVE I HAD A POETIC BEND RIGHT FROM CHILDHOOD. BUT I AM VERY VERY LAZY AND USED TO KEEP POETRY IN MIND AND DAY-DREAM. IT WAS ONLY VERY LATE IN LATE, THAT IS AT ABOUT THE AGE OF 60, I BEGAN POURING POESY ON TO PAPER MAINLY BECAUSE MY BOSS AT WORK THOUGHT AND CONVINCED ME THAT I WAS GOOD AT IT.

Do you have a favorite poet?

I SEE WORDSWORTH AND SHELLEY COMPETING HERE WITH BROWNING CLOSE BY. BUT I WOULD NAME SHELLEY.

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

I HAVE A FEELING OF GRIEVANCE THAT MY POETRY HASN’T MET WITH THE ACCEPTANCE IT SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED AT THE SITES WHERE I HAVE PUBLISHED IT. A FRIEND RECOMMENDED TRYING POETRYFESTIVAL AND I SENT IN MY POEM IN THE HOPE OF GETTING THE MUCH-NEEDED RECOGNITION. VERY SELFISH INDEED!

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

I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF VEDANTA. I HAVE SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN THE WEB. I HAVE ALSO BEEN A PROLIFIC CONTRIBUTOR TO DISCUSSIONS ON VEDANTA AT SEVERAL WEBSITES. I AM SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN INDIAN ASTROLOGY TOO, INTO WHICH I HAVE DONE SOME RESEARCHES. A ENGLISH NOVEL IS ON THE ANVIL. BUT IT IS MOVING VERY SLOW. ALSO PLANNED IS A SHORT BOOK ON VEDANTA THAT THE COMMON MAN CAN EASILY UNDERSTAND.

I WRITE POETRY IN MY NATIVE MALAYALAM TOO. MY MALAYALAM POEMS HAVE BEEN APPRECIATED.

MOST OF MY POETRY IN ENGLISH AND MALAYALAM TOTALLING ABOUT 138 CAN BE READ HERE:
http://www.poemhunter.com/madathil-rajendran-nair/poems/?a=a&search=&l=2&y=1

What is your passion in life?

TOTAL ENLIGHTENMENT WHICH ECKHART TOLLE HAS EXTOLED.

Immense thanks for asking me these questions. Hope my answers are helpful.

RIVER’S LIFE – Poetry Reading by MATJAZ TRCEK. Performed by Danielle Nicole

Theme of the poem is life of a river, if river is a living entity and it’s perspective on the world through which it flows.

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Get to know poet Matjaz Trcek:

What is the theme of your poem?

Theme of the poem is life of a river, if river is a living entity and it’s perspective on the world through which it flows.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been writing poetry for on and off for several years.

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

Inspiration and especially suggestion by a dear friend of mine

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

I also write blogs (You can check some of my other works on https://codeandunicorns.com/ ), poems, short stories, technical tutorials.

What is your passion in life?

My passion is to learn and be creative to enjoy in what I like such as poetry, writing, building new things innovating in a sense and improve myself.

FACTORY OF DREAMS – Poetry Reading by Katarina Jovcevska. Performed by Danielle Nicole

The theme of my poem is “Factory of dreams” and it is a love poem written and inspired by the love.I write when I am in love,the love inspires me because the light of love is unique ray which never fade and it is the music in the hearts of the people,pure spark in the unlimited time to live in the present time until forever.

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Get to know poet Katarina Jovcevska:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is “Factory of dreams” and it is a love poem written and inspired by the love.I write when I am in love,the love inspires me because the light of love is unique ray which never fade and it is the music in the hearts of the people,pure spark in the unlimited time to live in the present time until forever.

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

I would like my poem to reach into the people’s hearts and to leave a trail with strong and beautiful emotions and to inspire them to enjoy the life and love which is worth to live.For some comments of my poem the people can write me on my e-mail:
kate.jovcevska@gmail.com
kjovcevska@yahoo.com

How long have you been writing poetry?

When I was 12 years old I wrote my first poem “Through the field the beautiful walks,on the sky swallow fly”…for the literary magazine “Spark”in my primary school in Kumanovo ,Macedonia.That was my first try to write a poem and maybe the hardest in my whole life ,that was the smallest and simplest poem of all those beautiful poems written for the patronage of our school”Miladinovci Brothers” and complex essays skillfully written by children from 11 to 14 years of age.

I was delighted of the poems and essays from the children at that time and dreamed all the time to be like them,to write better and one day to be the best in my town.My dreams comes trues and I live my dreams now and compete in the world because I believed in my impossible dream to this day one day to become world’s poets.

Do you have a favorite poet?

My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson one of the best american poets which poems are very touching and beautiful.

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

I was delighted by the opportunity my poem to be read by many people on Wildsound festival and the unique chance to be performed by a professional actor,the second I liked more and that influenced my poetry to be heard of many people and to be inspired with beautiful thoughts written from the heart.

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

Except poetry I write every kind of lyrics for music on Macedonian, Serbian and English language, messages for greeting cards for every occasion,some haiku and essays.In the past I was a journalist for some magazines for literature and entertainment in Macedonia.I was doing interviews with some known singers,writers and artists in Macedonia.

What is your passion in life?

My passion in life is writing and reading poetry and lyrics,reading positive books,to explore the life with so much interest and new horizons and ideas,listening the music,working and spreading positive energy and messages around the world.

Shoddy Bar, Poetry by Madathil Rajendran Nair

Genre: Addiction

Shoddy Bar
by Madathil Rajendran Nair

They sat facing one another
Inside the shoddy bar
Swarthy figures
Like in American cartoons
Their visages waxen
Looks distant
Cadaverous blank

The figures of Jesus On The Cross
His pain lighted
By a low watt crimson bulb
Smiling Lord Ganesh
Granting boons
With burnt-out incense sticks
Before him
Presided over the scene

Each had a burden
Perhaps the dejection
Due to cruel rejection
Of the past to bury
Or a long-lost love
A broken wedlock
Death of a sweet-heart
A broken heart of some sort

They sat
Puffing at their fags
Or beedis
Or whatever they had
The glow at the tip
Of what they smoked
Said it all
The burn that rued their hearts

Aches of the like
The winds of the plains
Could hardly hope to soothe
Angst, the wisdom
Of the silent mounts around
Could ever undo

They sat puffing and drinking
In silence at the cacophonous bar
Shoddy, dilapidated
Infested with flies
Flying insects and mice

Dreaming they could once again
Sit with their kids
Under hurricane lamps
Late into the night
Helping them with their lessons
As the clouds rumbled
On distant mountain tops

As their wives garnished
Some favourite dish
In smoky kitchens unlit
Wiping burning eyes
With greying sari tips

Later to return
To their late night beds
To grant midnight warmth
Of sweat and love
That made the nights
More odoriferous
Than the incense burnt
Before indifferent Gods

They longed and longed
As every drink sank
Into their burning core
To return to the shores of love afar
As the world outside brimmed
Calling them drunkards

Refusing to grant
There are addictions of sorts
Religion, power and fads
Women, avarice, greed
That ruined humankind
More than the drinks
The entire humanity drank

With their glasses emptied
They would now decamp
Like moths fleeing a dying lamp
Into the night’s waiting arms
To the big bar under the shimmering stars
Where the cups are full again
With tears frothing in grief and pain

Where they would lie wide awake
After a fitful nap past midnight
On their unkempt beds like dried-up twigs
To roll and roll alone in pain
Sob and cry again in vain
And sing to far off receding plains
Where their solace hidden, remains

 

 

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I Want to Cry – Poetry Reading by Garfield A.A. Whyte

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Get to know poet Garfield  A.A. Whyte

1) What is the theme of your poem?

A nostalgic feeling

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

I need them to make a connection

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I started at 15 years old, I am now 50 years

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

Robert Burns

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

I wanted the exposure

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

Oh yes! I have a memoir entitled: Nostalgia from: A City Set upon a Hill and a novel; TJ’s Last Summer in Cape Cod

7) What is your passion in life?

To have movie made form my novel

You’re Not the Boss of Me! – Poetry Reading By Cindi Walton

My passion is my family. especially my two grandchildren Kaleigh and William. I am also passionate about spreading kindness. I have a kindness/anti-bullying site @ sockmonkeynation.com

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Poetry performed by actor Erynn Brook

Get to know poet Cindi Walton:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

Theme: growing up

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

yes responses would be nice

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been writing poetry since I was a child..at 59 that’s a long time

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

I love Shel Silverstein and Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe

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

I thing hearing someone else read your poem out loud lets you hear it from a different perspective

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

I have published several childrens books including an anti bullying book that I have turned into a local school presentation. I’ve also published romance, comedy and poetry….I am presently working on a screenplay from my book The Granny Monologue

7) What is your passion in life?

My passion is my family. especially my two grandchildren Kaleigh and William. I am also passionate about spreading kindness. I have a kindness/anti-bullying site @ sockmonkeynation.com

DIGNIFIED PERSON = DISABLED PERSON – Poetry Reading by Donna De Guglielmo

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Poetry performed by actor Erynn Brook

Get to know poet Donna De Guglielmo:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

Dignity

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

After my 6th stroke …but have had about 30 (not counting though) so i am living to talk about it… i got this gift. 2010 or 2011.

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

Rudyard Kipling Is My Fav

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

the nerve
sounds silly but true my spirit did … i have no idea how i got your name

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

I am currently writing my memoir. but i also write creative fiction but more non-fiction

7) What is your passion in life?

My faith is my passion. Perserverance writings and reading good lit. going forward upward and onward no looking back as St Paul said 🙂

On the Wallaby with you – Poetry Reading by David J Delaney

How love grew stronger travelling all over Australia.

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Get to know poet David J Delaney:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

How love grew stronger travelling all over Australia.

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

Just to enjoy my poetry.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

Since 2007, I never wrote anything before then.

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

So many to choose from, but I do enjoy Henry Kendall.

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

WILDsound’s professionalism & the audience reached.

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

Yes, I write short stories.

7) What is your passion in life?

Travel Australia, write my poetry & enjoy life.

Planting Seeds – Poetry Reading by Abu B Rafique

There are multiple themes that I try to touch on in my poem, love, wanderlust, youth, memory, but the biggest one is how people affect others. Everyone leaves some sort of an imprint on someone else, I like trying to look at how that can influence where people go from there and how they are as people afterwards.

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Poetry performed by actor Amaka Umeh

Get to know Abu B. Rafique

1) What is the theme of your poem?

There are multiple themes that I try to touch on in my poem, love, wanderlust, youth, memory, but the biggest one is how people affect others. Everyone leaves some sort of an imprint on someone else, I like trying to look at how that can influence where people go from there and how they are as people afterwards.

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

Preferably in a good way, I’d be a little put off if someone absolutely hated me or something. But the fact that they react is the most important thing no reaction would just make me feel like I did nothing with my words.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

Since I was six years old. The first one I remember writing was about chicks. It’s the definitive work of a generation honestly.

4) Do you have a favorite poet?

That’s a hard one. If you threw together William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, Rumi, and Allen Ginsberg, that’d probably be my favorite poet.

5) What influenced you to submit to the festival and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

The chance to have another platform to share my work with people.

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

Yes. I’ve got four books out actually, “Leave the Rice on the Windowsill (short story collection),” “Let’s Go Wandering (poetry collection),” “The Other Side of it All (more short stories),” and “The Chaotic Caffeine Fueled Collection (short stories and poetry).”

7) What is your passion in life?

Trying to connect through my writing.

WATCH FEBRUARY 2016 Poetry Readings

Best of Poetry performance readings in February 2016. Performed by Kaleb Alexander and Maya Wolosyzn

Best of Poetry performance readings in February 2016. Performed by Kaleb Alexander and Maya Wolosyzn

Stranger In Love� – Poetry Reading by Poetess Chantelle Cherie

Marvelous Universe Poetry Reading By Karina Pinella

Dear Lie – Poetry Reading by Stephanie Crosby

Call me guilty – Poetry Reading by Stephanie Crosby

Assumptions – Poetry Reading by Denise P Isaac

#1 fan Poetry Reading by Stephanie Crosby

Paris � The Atrocity 13th November 2015

FRAGMENTS Poetry Reading by Melissa R Mendelson

Forgiveness Poetry Reading by Sherille Williams

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