For money, for greed We’re encouraged to dig So we fracked And we hacked And we burned We cracked her veneers Penetrated her shades, Her shrouds and her veils Destroyed many valleys Killed her trees, animals Birds, and the bees Excavated and gouged Piercing her rocky armours Unfreezing her innards Tunneling thru her veins Hollowing […]
Year: 2020
Lyrics While on an Edible on the Plane Back From California, by Siena Facciolo — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
I’ll go to visit you In the green fields of my youth Your skin as soft as flowers That dot the hillside My mother she will hold Your hand until she knows That you will safely make it Through her memories I remember summer treats Blueberries between my teeth Raw cane sugar in a little […]
The Aura of a Being, by Andrea Irigoyen Paez — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Soul that blows stripping the wishes from dark corners. You light up the passions. From a horizon, infinite and mysterious. Only God created you. Those who swim to you, they discover the essence of being. As the autumn leaves fall, You’re lighting up the hope. And when the eternal winter comes, You whisper, look at […]
Ode to the girl with the sunflower tattoo, by Khadija Ajaoud — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
I saw you once, a long time ago and felt as we met in our lives elsewhere. I tried to sing but I stuttered And could noway pronounce the word liberta As you like people to pronounce it. I killed all the airs then and sank In the sounding of your voice. I was frightened […]
Marina Dymchenko Lily In The Darkness, by Marina Dymchenko — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
A peaceful Lily in the darkness Was looking up to big bright Moon Whose light so cold and calm and harmless Was making Lily almost swoon. It bathed in it, it awed, admired Until a random someone asked: “Are you not even little tired That with that Moon you’re noticed last? That no one looks […]
about saying goodbye to my grandmother by Lauren Burstein — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Instagram: @laurenrachel414 it wasn’t possible. in DNA, in gestures you remain. your dark European years, now woven, abstract haunts. saying goodbye is a social construct, because my vision of you experience of you transcends celestial orbits. even when you’re lost, i always find you in nursery rhymes, in chicken soup in my mother’s face. without […]
“ All I ever wanted was a world without maps. “ — Art of Quotation — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Originally posted on POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film. : All I ever wanted was a world without maps. Michael Ondaatje, novelist via “ All I ever wanted was a world without maps. “ — Art of Quotation
POETRY READING: What Will Be Your Legacy, by The P.O.E.T. aka The Anointed Pen — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Performed by Allison Kampf By: Noel A. Figueroa (The P.O.E.T. aka The Anointed Pen) ©2020 When your book is opened, what will be read in the story of your life? What will be your story that is on display for all to see? Will it speak of your courage to persevere? Will it speak of […]
POETRY READING: Cosmogony, by Iuliana Pașca — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Performed by Allison Kampf I would like to tell you about my birth but how to start with no beginning? … Mother said I was born ahead of my time; I don’t remember, but I know I was there when I also gave birth to my mother. I saw when from the heart the galaxies […]
POETRY READING: CLAP, by Darell J Philip — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.
Performed by Allison Kampf Windows opened Mum and I screaming at the top of our… You know, that organ which Mr Corona makes the point of his attack Our voices in unison with the carnival of faces Hand clapping together among our block For those brave front liners Robed in white and blue Their lives […]
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