POETRY READINGS

POETRY READINGS

Poems performed by professional actors.

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POETRY READINGS
  • POETRY Reading: Sovereign Wisdom, by Kamanadine

    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 ...

  • POETRY READING: STAINING/CRUSHING/BRUSHING, by E.K. Gaylord III

    Performed by Val Cole

  • POETRY READING: MILKSHAKE, by Leslie DuFresne

    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...

  • POETRY READING: Rust, by Kelly Loraine Stearns

    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...

  • POETRY READING: Dedicated To The Unknown Woman, by Sharmaine Anna Dobson

    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...

  • POETRY READING: Innate Soaring, by Edward Longo

    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...

  • POETRY Reading: Aaliyah, by Pete B.

    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...

  • POETRY Reading: The Hindu’s Lament, by Edmund Jonah

    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...

  • POETRY READING: A Rescues Song, by Tommy Anderson

    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...

  • POETRY Reading: Aaliyah, by Pete Borreggine

    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...

  • POETRY Reading: Lorca, by John Kaniecki

    Performed by Allan Michael Brunet

    ----

    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...

  • Poetry Reading: Reunion, by Laleeta Suhas

    Performed by Hannah Ehman

  • POETRY Reading: Prayer Of Loss, by Kevin Pike

    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....

  • POETRY READING: WILD HORSES, by Katrina Plumb

    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...

  • Poetry Reading: WAVE, by Debbie Fersht

    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...

  • Poetry Reading: A Sleepless Reverie, by Rebecca Wason

    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 ...

  • Poetry Reading: TRUST? No!, by Peter Borreggine

    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...

  • Poetry Reading: FRAGMENTS, by Donna Greenberg

    Performed by Hannah Ehman

    FRAGMENTS, by Donna Greenberg

    I forgot how you tasted
    The day your ship left my shore,
    Only the rage of the waves
    Reminds me.

    I waited with arms wide-spread,
    Legs tingling,
    The imprint of your touch
    Still longing…

    Even the strong wind
    That tore my heart
    From my skin...

  • Poetry Reading: Lessons of Imperfections, by Laleeta Tongo

    Performed by Hannah Ehman

    Lessons of Imperfections, by Laleeta Tongo

    When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to write, write and give speeches about.
    But then I turned thirty, and I wrote nothing but text messages flirty, and my hidden urge was also turning out.

    I saw an ad in the newspaper...

  • Poetry Reading: ODE TO THE PRESIDENT, by Frank Vespe

    ODE TO THE PRESIDENT, by Frank Vespe

    He just turned legal, plays guitar, his craft.
    An Aries like me, a Graduate student of math.
    I taught him to dribble, now he beats me,
    Swoosh! a three-pointer, from the top of the key.

    I fear for my son.

    Threescore ago, another Irishman won,
    Escalated a co...

  • Poetry Reading: Love your Curves, by Jesus T. Solis

    Performed by Hannah Ehman

    Love your Curves, by Jesus T. Solis

    Gives me the words,
    To speak of,
    That Sensual love,
    To be made,
    I’m not afraid,
    Take you by the hips,
    And kiss you on lips,

    Your woman I’m into,
    To dance with you,
    To twirl in lust,
    Our bodies will thrust,
    Upon each other,
    To becom...

  • Poetry Reading: hungover. by Rachel Spell

    Performed by Hannah Ehman

    hungover. by Rachel Spell

    her childhood tastes like whiskey
    on virgin youthful tongue;
    liquid fire scalding her soul
    since she was still young.

    her past tastes like rum,
    like everything she knew
    that was painful and scary
    was comforting her too.

    her lov...

  • POETRY Reading: The Uninvited Guest, by Alex Hai

    Performed by Bill Poulin

    The uninvited guest, by Alex Hai


    I am an immigrant

    of my own premiere .

    The cinema is full

    of empty whispering chairs

    Covid 19 is the uninvited guest

    filling all movie theaters for now

    I wish I could beam a few years back

    so exciting

    to see people taking t...

  • Poetry Reading: YOU CAN, by Nadine Weathersby

    YOU CAN, by Nadine Weathersby

    Life is not merely a game of chance,
    It’s yours to shape and mold, you can be whatever you want to be in
    constant reality if you accept the responsibility
    You can stand tall,
    Dare not to fall, persist, insist, and you will win,
    Use all your tools; get the knowledge...