Narrated by Val Cole

Get to know the poet:

1) What is the theme of your poem?
All's fair in love and war.

2) What motivated you to write this poem?
We pray for God's love, forgiveness, and gratitude to be bestowed upon our ex-lovers.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?
Eight years.

4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would
that be?
My cousin Ismail Pourvali. In the late 1800s, our family moved from Armenia to Persia. By the 1950s, he had become a renowned journalist, speaking out against the monarchy of the Shah and later the theocracy of Shiite Ayatollahs. His strong convictions resulted in him being exiled twice. He died in Paris in 2005 at the age of 80.

5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a
professional actor?
My love for English words is unparalleled. There's something special about experiencing them live.

6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I write film essays, soccer articles, and screenplays.

7) What is your passion in life?
Experimental filmmaking and Italian soccer.

White Magic Man, by Ard-Alan Pourvali

Poem:

Roller coasters on merry farms,
with southland Chingona.
Take me back home again,
In the season of America.

Sexed like wildfire and starlight.
Her moonlight radiates desire.
Love is the only keeper,
and I’m getting higher.

Vexed runes of darkness,
black magic and voodoo
Like Romeo and Juliet
Capulet and Montague.

Hexed by Santeria,
The roots of her witchcraft.
I prance with white magic,
Jesus guides my glance.

Shadows dance at midnight
Under this Chicana spell
A black cat crosses my path.
An omen from heaven or hell.

Every alley and byway,
chance leaves its wrath.
All fire lit and lit,
On shattered glass I took a bath.

Of stilettos and of sangrias,
On this night of trance.
Of Chonies and of bloody maria’s,
Never severs, true romance.
A cosmic soul-tie, Everlast.