In advance of my featured reading next month at the Village Poets, in Tujunga, California (just north of downtown Los Angeles) I share a few introductions and poems from Waiting for Word, from which I’ll be reading. If you’re in the area, I’d be thrilled if you join the audience and say hello. Say you’re a Mastodon! I’ll be signing copies and feeling generally poetic.
(Photo by Julia Dean)
Congratulations to Dreading #Slam #CaptionContest winner Pam Ski on get her #poem about the UK warning alert test published in Reading-Today.
Another success for Dreading Slam #poets in our local newspaper.
Picture from Wikimedia Commons
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Congratulations to Dreading Slam Host, The Legend That is Richard on having one of his #ruleofsix in the latest issue of Book Mark Type Magazine
another step closer to the rich and famous contract (#poets version)
I know some people think the rich and famous contract was made up to give the Muppet Movie a happy ending, well we will see.
#poetrylover #WritingCommunity
#ruleofsix #poets #poetrylover #writingcommunity
So what are you doing for national poetry month?
I’m using the #poetrymonth and #NaPoWriMo hashtag to publicise events I would be doing anyway
#poetrymonth #napowrimo #selfpublicity #crative #poetrylover
For World Poetry Day I thought I’d share a very old poem … written over 20 years ago. I decided to not edit it or tweak it and to let my voice as a 27 year old come through. 📣 What will your moment be?
©️ Saraphir Camille Legind
♾️♾️♾️
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Your Soft Lips
Deep the Seas of my passion
Oceans washing deep, and wide
Deep desire lusting, Lasting
Without your lips, I will starve
Deep driven
Lust Arising
Until I lie back
Desire ashen
Deep the Seas of my passion
Oceans washing deep and wide
Deep desire, lusting, lasting
Without your lips, I will starve
In your passion, I am trusting
I am with you always lusty
For your soft lips, I am surviving
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Passionate
I search for the poem devine
I want it to be ecclesiastical
I do not want to become overzealous
I try to shun the over-enthusiastic
I will not be so Deamon-Ridden
In passion I am abstinent
I long for great fortuity
I want some happy accident
I strive to be dependable
I will the essence distil
I hope I will not fractionate
In all I'm rattling Passionate
#poet #poetry # #poetrylover #poems
#poet #poetry #poetrylover #poems
Random Access Thoughts
Every act is hit-or-miss
I never do anything in Tandem
sometimes I just want to give up
But I still strive Nil Desperandum
You may think I am haphazard
Not all I do is done Random
#random #poet #poetry # #poetrylover #poems #poetryreading #poetrylovers #poetrymag #peotryatnight #poetrycommunity
#random #poet #poetry #poetrylover #poems #poetryreading #poetrylovers #poetrymag #peotryatnight #poetrycommunity
Gibbous Moan
Give is a Three Quarter Moon
We wait for it impatiently
Give us now a Gibbous Moan
Sinking down below the Sea
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#poetry #poet #poetrylover #poetrylovers #poems #poetryreading #poetrymag #poetryatnight
Sensitive
Sensitive to your lovely sight
Sensitive to your gentle voice
Sensitive to the brush of your hand
Sensitive to the smell of your skin
Sensitive to the taste of your flesh
My love for you is complete
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Sensitive
Sensitive to your lovely sight
Sensitive to your gentle voice
Sensitive to the brush of your hand
Sensitive to the smell of your skin
Sensitive to the taste of your flesh
My love for you is complete
#poetryatnight #poetrylover
The Gleam Issue 5 reading is about to start! Poetry lovers, there's still time to tune in! #poetrylover #poetry #poem #poetryreading
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Listen to Kate Wegrzyn perform a poem as part of Rucksack, a Global Poetry Patchwork! #poetry #spokenword #poetrylover #poet
#poetry #spokenword #poetrylover #poet
- the day I leave
"i have survived far too much to go quietly
let a meteor take me
call the thunder for backup
the land will crack
the sun will eat itself"
- Rupi Kaur
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Last night I dreamt I went to Ghent, Aix ! #goodnews #truestory #poetrylover
#goodnews #truestory #poetrylover
Transit
If music is the food of love, play on.
Let it be said
while in the midst of horror
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
Rita Dove
https://poets.org/poem/transit
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#poetry #poetrylover #ritadove #poemoftheday #poem #bookstodon
I was born as I am
Not appearing as I am
No longer hiding
#SupportTransLives #transremembranceday #transremembrance
#TransDayOfRemembrance
#haiku #poetry #poem #micropoetry #SmallPoems
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#poetsandwriters
#MastodonPoets #PoetsofMastodon #TransPoets
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RT @kyokoTHEpoet@twitter.com
You picked my petals
one by one
And I let you,
thinking…
I
had
won
Truth be told, before you finished with my petals
You were already
done.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kyokoTHEpoet/status/1593652145936633857