Performed by Val Cole
“A riddle of Breakable things”, by Janine Parkinson
A love like ours starts out
with one cup of sugar
a teaspoon of thyme
Add a fight,
some words unkind
we sit broken, cracked, poached
Resting in silence, stirring
your pointed finger, stabs
Oozes yellow
The sunset
repla...
Performed by Val Cole
COFFEE by Paul Wood
On no what a palaver
What an awful din
The barista is going crazy
As the customers all pile in
Mums with small children
Spotty teenagers with attitude
All sorts from all walks of life
Are waiting in the que
I shuffle slowly along the co...
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1) What is the theme of your poem?
An autobiography – told in little snippets.
2) What motivated you to write this poem?
I am currently in a creative writing class.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I really started writing creatively ...
Performed by Val Cole
“Sword of War”, from “Of Virtue, Love and War”, by Ryan Christiansen
Would I were a soldier still – would I were yet still a knight
A servant of the beautiful – honor bound to all that’s right
I’d marsh’ll out to meet the foe – for her return to fight
Would I were love’...
Performed by Val Cole
Genre: Historical
A Civil Soldier's Tale
"Lie still now, soldier", the Union General said,
As he knelt down beside the boy's bloody, wounded head.
The dying young lad, no more than fifteen, if a day,
Wore the blight of cannon, from being in its way.
The General swallo...
Performed by Val Cole
My mountain to climb by Bethany Zare
Diagnosis cancer,
like others have had.
My type is common,
so not really that bad.
The experience feels
like an amusement ride,
With ups and downs
but nowhere to hide.
Each test brings more questions
no clear path t...
Performed by Val Cole
Isolated Vodka, by Lizbeth Wartemberg
Last night I died
I cried and I cried and I cried
I drowned all my pride and I cried
and I cried and I cried
I drowned all my pride and I cried
and I cried and I cried
I tripped over half a bottle of vodka
Did a U-turn on my bed
Whe...
Sovereign Wisdom, by Kamanadine
Dancing on the razor’s edge
No mind
No body
Zero point
Shunya
Free falling in space
A fractal of light
A crystal skull starts vibrating
And shining iridescent
Never seen before
Patterns of light
Seeing through the eyes of Goddess
A lens of purity
Of ...
Performed by Val Cole
Performed by Val Cole
MILKSHAKE, by Leslie DuFresne
In having everything and nothing to do all at once,
this mother strips herself bare
of dignity. I do what I have to.
The happy meds I fed my mind this morning
kicked themselves in
far past the buzzed feel-good uprights
landing amidst a stad...
Performed by Val Cole
Rust
By Kelly Loraine Stearns
collecting old keys
seeking answers unseen
lost in a puzzle
of amnesiac complexities
the clock chants why
timeless moments pass her by
orchestrating a symphony
of a perpetual dream
silence whispers
echoing particles of dust
a young womans de...
Performed by Val Cole
Dedicated to the Unknown Woman
Listen to the drums
Echoing through the valley
See the demons fly
through the night
Hear the old woman
Cry out with fright
As a young woman is stripped bare…
Violated, beaten and bruised
She lays
With unseeing eyes
All she hears
Are the silen...
Performed by Val Cole
INNATE SOARING, by Edward Longo
This is a poem dedicated to those
Men and women who cannot help but follow
The unspoken meanings of their soul;
who will search or soar until
They unite their personas with their innate
Motivations; and
Whom will continue soaring
T...
Performed by Allan Michael Brunet
Aaliyah, by Pete Borreggine
All throughout my life,
I’ve searched for love alone,
A quest I made to find that love,
Was something I would never know,
For years I’d wonder where true love was,
And why it had forsaken me,
Years of turmoil and being left alo...
Performed by Allan Michael Brunet
(Bhagwan is God! or O God!)
As I passed a lonely temple in the after-evening glow,
On the banks of the Ganges where the quiet waters flow,
When the sun had sunk to rest and cool softness touched the air,
I saw a dark-skinned Indian and I heard him chant this pr...
Performed by Val Cole
A Rescues Song, by Tommy Anderson
Once upon a time I was a lost dog. I was abandoned, lonely, forgotten,
and praying for a home. I had no place to hide, no place to go,
no one person who would love me and let me love them.
I had been abused, starved, left alone out in the...
Performed by Allan Michael Brunet
Aaliyah, by Pete Borreggine
All throughout my life,
I've searched for love alone,
A quest I made to find that love,
Was something I would never know,
For years I'd wonder where true love was,
And why it had forsaken me,
Years of turmoil and being l...
Performed by Allan Michael Brunet
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Before I read Lorca
My words were blunt swords for
Slicing rotted wood
Constructing
Rackety trellises
To fortify
Pathetic castles of sand
Praying never the waves
Or even harsh winds
Ascend to my feeble heights
Where from above with disdain
Cupid mocked
My...
Performed by Hannah Ehman
Performed by Allan Michael Brunet
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Prayer of Loss
Oh, Lord, please take away my heart
and tear the foolish thing apart
and put it back again, I pray
so cold and hard that none
may find a way
to enter there again.
Excuse me, Sir, for this bold request
but I must have your very best....
Performed by Hannah Ehman
WILD HORSES, by Katrina Plumb
Hooves hurl havoc on heathland.
Manes and tails whirl with the wind.
Their wide nostrils snort
As the horses cavort
Plumed perfect as fishes are finned.
They rollick and roll in a whirlpool –
Palomino, pistachio, pink.
They fight with d...
Performed by Hannah Ehman
Wave by Debbie Fersht
A man holds a body of water at gunpoint. Roll over says the man from shore and the water does so. The man's toes get wet which makes him angry. He can't stand to be only partially wet so tells the water to lie still while walks in clothed until t...
Performed by Hannah Ehman
A Sleepless Reverie by Rebecca Wason
'Won't you stay a little longer?'
Sighed the moon to the night sky.
We have barely started our talk
And I have a thousand things to say
Of life and poppycock.
'Oh, but it is forbidden',
Replied the night to the moon.
We ...
Performed by Hannah Ehman
TRUST? No!, by Peter Borreggine
Forgiveth not, what comes thy way,
‘Tis but a speck, in the dawn of a day,
Thou must not begin to finally feel,
As if thy heart, is in a reel,
Thou pain, is wrought, deep inside I fear,
For to giveth its wrath, is not what I hear,
‘Tw...