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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Performed by Hannah Ehman
Before After Always, by Eugene Butler
Before what?
Birth…Breath…Discovery…
Love…Loss…Joy…
Pain…Awareness…Memory
Regret…Tears…Laughter
Death?
And after?
Believe the Buddhist
Believe the Christian
Believe the Muslim
Believe the Jew
Believe the Atheist
One is the other…T...
Performed by Hannah Ehman
BEST FRIEND, by Debbie Fersht
A child puts her doll to bed. Tell me a story, says the doll. You always say that, says the girl. Tell me a story, the doll repeats. Go to sleep you two, says her father from the light underneath the bedroom door. You’re my best friend, whispers the girl to the d...
What I Thought I Wanted
Have you ever wondered who you would be
Without your profession, without your role
Without a position in life that holds
The you, that you know to be in this world
The you, who you think is important
The pearl
That is singular?
One and specific?
Identified by name and pos...
Read by Val Cole
THE CALL OF PAN
© 2015
Barbara Grace Lake
I heard a piping in the wood –
Haunting, calling me
To follow if I dare.
I heard it in the dawn
As misty sunlight gently touches
Tips of trees when first aroused
And leaves are freshest.
Mounds of grassy thickets
Crunch beneath my feet
From...
Her last smile, by Mustofa Munir
when the clock of civilization has lost its sense of time
she perceived the world without knowing its malicious darkness,
a lonely young girl died many times
before her death when
she was gang-raped by some beastly men,
suffered many days and months,
she deliver...
TENDER LOVING MOMENTS, by Colin Guest
To feel your tender body touching mine
Is a sweet feeling that is simply divine
I love the touch of your arms around me
It makes me feel happy I want all to see
Our tender love is both strong and true
With our never feeling down and blue
Just to hold your h...
POETRY Reading:
fan the flame
let it die out
or set fire to the kitchen trying to make breakfast
with you at four in the morning
take a walk instead
paint the winter canvas of town
like a boot on the moon
trip on the ice and knock your head into mine
watch our breath intersect in the space...
Four Days, by Les Bill Gates
Remember me?
You betrayed me today.
With a kiss, you showed them the way
And collected thirty silver coins.
You whipped me and mocked me.
You crowned me with thorns.
So grovel in the dirt, pick up your pay.
You betrayed me today.
Remember me?
You killed me today.
Y...
Crann Bethadh Song Messengers, by R.L. Stephenson-Read
We embrace our Celtic ancestry
For that same time runs nigh
And seek the mystery from the Lake of Small Stones
Of a lost, ancient tribe’s practice.
Those magical Druid Holies droned, “Beannachtaí Dé”
In their sacred, Oaken Groves
And planted...
Love the mystery...
Love...
The mystery...
Love the mystery...
Love...
The mystery...
Love is a feeling...of curiosity...
Yearning for the moment...what might be...
Love plays hide and seek...
But truly never meets...
So, please...
Love the mystery
Love the mystery
Love is eternal...lasts til...
DEAR GAELENE, by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
I’m pitching a script about a journey
discovering new lands. A clever captain
but he’s shipwrecked. A remarkable
love-and-murder story illustrated
by the captain and his new navigator;
he is English, and she Polynesian.
(Quick back-story about a Polynesia...
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
From within it stirs
Barely moving, barely awake
Its breath misting, steaming, warming;
Slowly it stretches
Reaching out
Its tentative touch
As fragile as floss spun glass
Crystalline, beautiful and alive.
Sentience claims it now;
Aflood with rainbow strands
Splash...
Read Poem:
Leroy my neighbor had some lottery luck
But he went off and blew it all on a big old monster truck
Now he can’t afford to drive it
The gas cost too much
Leroy’s old lady she packed and left
She was pissed that Leroy was only thinking of himself
But if I know Leroy
He wasn’t thinking ...
READ POEM:
I am waiting
for shrink-wrapped facts to fall from the bellies of planes
while gators slide across water and insects roar.
I am waiting
for a country-western singer without a pickup,
for a horse bounding
through grasses flung like long hair in the wind.
I am waiting
for unstandard...