Poetry competition CLOSED 29th April 2022 12:47pm
WINNER
Jestalessa
Jestalessa
WINNER
Magdalena (Spartalena)
Magdalena (Spartalena)
I Like To Record Poetry - Can I Read Yours?
Magdalena said:it tastes like the world is ending (written by Indie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzcxpmPmEQ
Oh Magdalena!
That's absolutely bloody awesome!
Thank you for joining us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzcxpmPmEQ
Oh Magdalena!
That's absolutely bloody awesome!
Thank you for joining us!
How cool! I have a couple of people I might ask... I've seen some stuff on here this week that I wish I'd written. Somebody remind me tomorrow?! Yes it's early here, but I'm falling asleep. I've had severe asthma for the past week, got zero sleep last night, and was on the phone to a doctor during the middle of the night before that!!!
Anonymous
All Dreams
I read your letter by candlelight,
your promises are golden.
I shall not sleep much between
now and the moment
when your words become yellow ribbons,
cut at the ceremony
of reacquaintance.
Tonight, when sleep does overcome
my stubborn conscience,
dreams will be absent.
I've not one, for all fell away
through my open hand,
silent like paper songs
over the side of the bed.
Dreams were let go
to fill my heart of hope
that I carry when I'm conscious.
It weighs me less
though so much in it.
I miss your look,
the curious one;
Half wild, half wondering
like a soft zoo animal
that wants to flirt with man.
I always knew you could
slip through the bars
at any moment,
but you never did.
Just your hand
that moved my hair off my eyes.
That was the touch
that broke us down,
laid us down.
I'd remember without your letter.
Yet here it is, you write
like you love,
flowing and gentle.
Once, behind those slight breasts
you had the grandest of upheavals.
Where dreams and hope
traded gold rings.
Where souls wed
one another secretly,
while hands were kept constant
to avoid jewelry.
But under your dress
there's an anklet
necklace, or piercing
that signifies all of this.
Who needs to know
away from us.
Who else is anywhere
that truly exists.
I have lit four candles,
one to cover each distance.
Although you'll come from the east,
still, I want everyone
to have something to turn to
when they feel darkest.
I fed your letter to candlelight.
The peeking moon squinted
side-eyed.
I laid the torching words
upon the marble tray.
The one where our chess pieces
huffed impatiently,
as we left them to suffer
through our activity.
Gray ribbon-smoke rises
from the sacrifice of words.
The moon wads it up into clouds
and taps the roof.
Rain perhaps, or maybe not.
Yet the fire lifts defiantly
in yellow cursives.
It's every promise from your lips
from when you wrote this song.
I'll play it back for you,
to lead you home.
Written by Styxian
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Non-Entry... I just want to support the comp...
All Dreams by Styxian (Read with permission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36oniP9XrY
I also wanted to say if anybody is stuck, or would like some help with recording their poem, I compiled a handy video "how to" guide over lockdown for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of the LoudSpeaker Poetry group:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/groups/loud-speaker-poetry/discussion/3964/
All Dreams by Styxian (Read with permission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36oniP9XrY
I also wanted to say if anybody is stuck, or would like some help with recording their poem, I compiled a handy video "how to" guide over lockdown for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of the LoudSpeaker Poetry group:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/groups/loud-speaker-poetry/discussion/3964/
Northern_Soul said:Non-Entry... I just want to support the comp...
All Dreams by Styxian (Read with permission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36oniP9XrY
I also wanted to say if anybody is stuck, or would like some help with recording their poem, I compiled a handy video "how to" guide over lockdown for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of the LoudSpeaker Poetry group:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/groups/loud-speaker-poetry/discussion/3964/
That is a most excellent read of a wonderful poem!
Also thanks for the heads up on the group, most appreciated!
All Dreams by Styxian (Read with permission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36oniP9XrY
I also wanted to say if anybody is stuck, or would like some help with recording their poem, I compiled a handy video "how to" guide over lockdown for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of the LoudSpeaker Poetry group:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/groups/loud-speaker-poetry/discussion/3964/
That is a most excellent read of a wonderful poem!
Also thanks for the heads up on the group, most appreciated!
Wow.
Can a heart break in a good way? Mine just did. This is the grandest, kindest thing anyone has done for me in a long time. I am truly humbled by your result. For giving it a voice.
Thank you Missy. At least a thousand times, thank you.
Can a heart break in a good way? Mine just did. This is the grandest, kindest thing anyone has done for me in a long time. I am truly humbled by your result. For giving it a voice.
Thank you Missy. At least a thousand times, thank you.
SAVE LADYBIRDS
on the bus high timing the shadows
of big buildings with the opening
of my right eye to avoid sun blindness
and am quietly proud thinking nobody else
has thought to do this today
I bet. listening to alive Ukrainian music
dressed in muted natural colours
save ladybirds L stitched into the scarf.
I lose a tight sense of identity
and melt into the world. not someone
in the world. a world with someone with a heart
unhealthily ok with overstimulation in it.
Written by MrAlptraum
(Mr A)
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SAVE LADYBIRDS
on the bus high timing the shadows
of big buildings with the opening
of my right eye to avoid sun blindness
and am quietly proud thinking nobody else
has thought to do this today
I bet. listening to alive Ukrainian music
dressed in muted natural colours
save ladybirds L stitched into the scarf.
I lose a tight sense of identity
and melt into the world. not someone
in the world. a world with someone with a heart
unhealthily ok with overstimulation in it.
Written by MrAlptraum
(Mr A)
Go To Page
Jestalessa said:SAVE LADYBIRDS
by MrA
https://youtu.be/ZDlXFxgmkpk
What an absolute stunning read...
Thank you so much for joining us!
Big ups to MrA too!
by MrA
https://youtu.be/ZDlXFxgmkpk
What an absolute stunning read...
Thank you so much for joining us!
Big ups to MrA too!
*Notice*
I'm aware that somehow the comp description changed to nomination.
I'm unsure how, but the idea has not changed.
You post your own read of another user's poem as the posters above have done.
Thank you for joining us!
I'm aware that somehow the comp description changed to nomination.
I'm unsure how, but the idea has not changed.
You post your own read of another user's poem as the posters above have done.
Thank you for joining us!
... a window through an urban thicket...
whenever it presses,
my particular inadequacy
that pull of all my knowing better
especially in the evenings
when my mind wonders
I walk until I can see the sky
if even just a glimpse
through my dense urban thicket
to be reminded of my place
my true insignificance
relishing, in the moment
There's a perspective
that billions of miles away
hammers home
with it's eons
of punctuation
I walk to the moonshine
and it's bathing of me in her secrets
a breadth of promise
as my lonely triviality shies
allowing minutiae of millenia
to soak deep within
I walk to remedy and to endure myself
spending intentional time
in my own head
realizing how selfish
the words 'I & me'
sound in such repeated succession
I walk to be free
and to lose myself in that freedom
letting go of all that I can peel from flesh
allowing secrets of the universe to burrow
to breathe of found cosmic amnesty
remembering that we're all,
colored of pure stardust
