On Sunday we spoke
A few words, loving yet not a lot
On Monday we spoke
She was hopeful to move
Out of that sad situation
I was eager to help her be free again
Genre: Relationship, Love, Romance
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
by Coni Koepfinger
On Sunday we spoke
A few words, loving yet not a lot
On Monday we spoke
She was hopeful to move
Out of that sad situation
I was eager to help her be free again
On Tuesday there was no more time
To say anything more
To plan anything
To get a bed or to pack
Dreams, new dreams gone.
Just gone.
We were so hopeful.
At last, after seven years, free.
If only we could see
The time vanishing
Right before our eyes
If only we could hear
It all winding down
In the human heart
Those slow burning embers
Of human desperation
Sizzling out to ash
Why is it always too late
To late to take out the trash
And to let the other love you
It’s always a matter of time
Isn’t it?
A matter of time.
Yet what is time?
And why am I still surprised
By my ignorance
By my arrogance
Why do we always want more time
Perhaps it’s ego
To want to know
To want to go back in time
To make the words all rhyme
To let our last words be loving ones
And to make more, just a little more time.
I never had my poem recited by someone else. I saw the website and just decided to give it a try. I’m not a winner of anything so when I actually won this opportunity I was really proud of myself. Along with the book I put this poem in, my first book THE MARKS ON MY SKIN.
Watch the Poetry Reading: FORGIVENESS:
Get to know poet Sherille Williams:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
The name of my poem is called Forgiveness
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
I would like people to respond to this poem by understanding this feeling of forgiveness is not easy but simple.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I been writing poetry since I was 14. I use to play my Alicia keys music and incorporate that along with the pain I endured in my life.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
My favorite poet is Emily Dickinson, not only for her work but how she lived her life. She secluded herald from others and I have a bad habit of doing that.
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I never had my poem recited by someone else. I saw the website and just decided to give it a try. I’m not a winner of anything so when I actually won this opportunity I was really proud of myself. Along with the book I put this poem in, my first book THE MARKS ON MY SKIN.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Yes, I am a songwriter and regularly co write with other artists. I am also writing my debut novel.
I have not wire turn short stories in a long time so no I have not, if the idea was presented to me then I would not mind using my creative mind to help out.
7) What is your passion in life?
My passion in life is helping others. If I cannot help you then I feel bad so writing poetry for allows me to use the stories of people I know and use my own experience to help others. Understanding someone else’s thoughts usually seem a one sided. So with creative writing it allows me to place in different perspectives but the raw truth.
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I was given the opportunity to submit to Wildsound following the publication of ‘Paris – The Atrocity’ on the poetry festival website. After reviewing some poetry performances I thought it would be beneficial to promote my work to a wider audience via Wildsound.
Watch the Poetry Reading: PARIS – THE ATROCITY 13th November 2015:
Get to know poet Jane Gill-Wilson:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
The theme of ‘Paris – The Atrocity’ is Human Interest, Emotive, Rhyme.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
My aim is to draw the reader/listener into the heart of the subject matter. In the case of ‘Paris – The Atrocity’ I hope the poem will allow people to explore their own thoughts surrounding the tragic events, and raise an awareness of the secondary consequences of such atrocities.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I began writing poetry as a cathartic process during some troubled times in 2010.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
No, I don’t really have a favorite poet. I am very much inspired by life events and write inspirational, biographical poetry. My style is always rhyming verse. However, I have been influenced by Pam Ayres who is an English poet, comedian and songwriter. My next book due to be published by Pegasus Eliot Mackenzie in 2016 is a humorous collection of dating stories told in rhyme.
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I was given the opportunity to submit to Wildsound following the publication of ‘Paris – The Atrocity’ on the poetry festival website. After reviewing some poetry performances I thought it would be beneficial to promote my work to a wider audience via Wildsound.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Yes, I am a songwriter and regularly co write with other artists. I am also writing my debut novel.
1) What is the theme of your poem?
Reflection. The past to me is crystal clear, but the future is not.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your
poetry reading?
I would like my poem to be but a mirror, a pool of thought for others to sit by, contemplate, dream and wonder.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I've been writing poetry since high school.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
William Blake. I love how his poem is used in "Lullaby" by Loreena McKennitt.
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry
performed by a professional actor?
Exposure.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I am a published short story author and poet. I also write lyrics and fan fiction. Most of my fan fiction is based off of Sci-Fi/Supernatural Television Shows.
7) What is your passion in life?
Writing.
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Political descent and a historical narrative. The Internment was my attempt to understand how our society is structured and what it truly means to belong to a democratic civilization. someone once said that “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident that they are acting on their free will” I think this is a powerful statement and quite reflective of the society we live in. We function based on our belief system, creating our decisions and ultimately our experiences on this planet through the scope of what we believe. As people are we simply guided by our hearts, that internal manifestation of our truest self, or is it possible that our choices are largely shaped by the influences about us. Religion, politics, education, health, justice, each is an integral pillar and the media is it’s mouth piece. While I do believe that we belong to incredibly blessed nation, I realize that there is a sort of complacency in our conquest for truth. To evolve one must be willing to explore the that which is uncomfortable, to consider life from every angle. After all it is possible that what we consider “The Truth” may just be a fabricated, if not a one sided version of it.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
It would hope that “The Internment” will not only challenge the reader’s perception of the world around them but cause them to ask the tough questions. To consider both sides of the fence.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
It has been 15 years since I wrote my first poem. I am began when I was 10 years old.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
It really depends on how the word “poet” Is defined. It is true that I love poets such as Sylvia Plath ( Her poem Lady Lazarus is a favorite ) Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joshua Bennett and Alicia Harris. Poetry is simply anything that moves my soul and for that reason I would also consider “India Arie” and “Lauryn Hill” to also be my “Poet” of choice. They conves the truth effortlessly. In fact it was Lauryn Hill’s album “Unplugged” that inspired this poem “the internment” I am also incredibly fond of Audra McDonald. (Might not be a writer, but she certainly knows how to express the emotion of music, much like that of a writer.) It leaves you with a deep sentiment and profound gratitude for the little moments of life.
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I am also a spoken word artist. The reverb of the written word against your eardrum, is a completely different experience, than simply reading it on the page. I felt that having someone perform the interment, would add to the power behind these words.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I am a writer in every sense of the word. Verse novels, music scores, song lyrics, fiction, theatrical scripts, Essays. these are some of the things that I enjoy putting down on Paper. My poetry chapbook “Ephemorphosis” was just published by Prolific Press this year.
7) What is your passion in life?
I believe that true poetry comes from artistic and emotional vulnerability, and at the heart of it, should reflect the distinct voices and nuances of the human experience. my passion is to simply reflect this philosophy through my work by producing art that is unbound by the confines of race, gender, or political affiliation
– The theme of the poem is about life. It talks about what we perceive and what the eternal truth could be. It is about how wide and wild can our imagination go.
Watch NOT SO AMAZING POEM FOR AN AMAZING GIRL
Get to know poet Abhishek Jha:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
– The theme of the poem is about life. It talks about what we perceive and what the eternal truth could be. It is about how wide and wild can our imagination go.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
– They could either respond in writing or post videos with their comments.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
– Have started writing about a year back.
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
– “Ode to the West Wind” by P.B Shelley
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
– A friend told me to submit since it is a good platform to showcase your piece to the world.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
– I write short stories as well.
7) What is your passion in life?
– Passion in life is to start start my own company and do good for the world.
Desire and being taken out of reality by that desire. Being utterly at one your lover.
2) How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?
I would like them to have for a moment that feeling of being completely lost in someone else – that feeling where two souls become one, out of time and place.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
A few years
4) Do you have a favorite poet?
Not specifically, but I love Wilfred Owen, Hugh McDiarmid, W.B.Yeats, Coleridge and a wonderful local poet, Liz Berry who writes evocative, beautiful poetry about the Black Country, where I live at the moment.
5) What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I have been writing bits of poetry for a few years but only for my own pleasure (or maybe as therapy). I have never had anything published. I thought it would be nice to see what other people thought of some of the things I do, positive or negative – it’s all feedback.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
Sometimes – I am an inveterate scribbler. Bits of poems and stories pop up all the time and just tend to get scribbled down.
7) What is your passion in life?
Generally being creative – I write, sing, make jewellery, paint a little and play ukulele.
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