Long Reciter Poems

This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection 
Haters in my life 
only lead to introspection 
Understand 
I’m still the man
Who are you to question 
I agree to disagree
With all your...

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ADDENDA
READING ALOUD Reading a poem silently ( as  compared to aloud)is the difference between staring at sheet music and playing the music on an instrument.Recitation  equates poetry to the experience of viewing a painting or...

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My First poem posted here May 2007 was  an enigmatic Lanterne

Viduage

Tall
nettles-
the dutch hoe
rusting in the
shed.

My First ekphrasis (poem no 2 here ) BELLA

Bella

He
opened
the window-
in streamed his first
love
with
flowers,
dressed
in white-
she haunted his
art.

An Ekphrasis in lanterne  sequence on Marc Chagall

MY FIRST POEM I EVER WROTE poem no 3 here. a favoured form  AN ALLITERATION

Connections
Confront,clash,collide
COMBAT !
Cold shoulder,chill,cool
CUT-OFF !
Cry,crave,collect
CALL-ON !
Constant,compassion,consider
CHARITY !
Confer,commune,converse
COMMUNICATE !
Convene,concert,consensus
CONCORD !
COVENANT ! CHRIST ! CHURCH !

MY FIRST IMAGIST POEM -REFLECTIONS

Reflections

Deep into the pool
A blue moon,ephemeral,
Below white-coated peaks,
Bleak and surreal,
The transient image too soon
Dissolves,and ripples into space,
As water though my grasp.

MY FIRST CINQUAIN (after Adelaide Crapsey)

Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast

MY FIRST HIKU 

On the wind,a bell
Muffled from across the square
Raindrops fill the air
why hiku ?

HAIKU means  the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese'

whereas HIKU

is the English language version(including translations)with similar economy of words without "telling all" thereby to ' show ' (conforming to the key to...

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wobbling
   earth
      Phoebus
          slipover
               &
...

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spoke to stars

every 
   night
     when 
        world 
            slept
 ...

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THESE ARE OPEN(organic) VERSES using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols, the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' (intuitive cadence)& so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making this enigmatic form...

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Hostilities
  hate
   & hysteria
          world full
               of 
 ...

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This one
  for
    a 
      girl
         abandoned
           ...

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Dark space
               Cold 
           &
inexorable
    soul
  ...

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crushing defeat
   in 
     abyss 
         of 
          nostalgia
   ...

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Poem- Salt
Poet- Aditya Aneek
Reciter- Shimul Mustapha

In a  book fair, theater, cafe, on the first day of Bangla calendar, around the festive Valentine day
An ordinary boy is he, if one overlooks his insinuating efforts to...

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Written: April 30, 2025, for a contest by Brian Strand

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blow out 
        ...

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whilst
    courting 
       reveries
          in 
           chamomile...

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nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
       leftovers 
        ...

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Let's meet 
     on 
        side
        of
      honesty
honor
    &...

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Written: April 29, 2025, for Contest by Brian Strand

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diaphanous
        spirals
of 
...

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"say Brian"
 what is your poetry creed?"

                POETRY IS AN ORAL ART AT ITS BEST WHEN  RECITED
 it then...

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Vesuvius Eruption

flumped
feeling
  fading
     forthcoming
 carrying 
    his 
giant
   cyclopedia
in hand
  snaring
of 
 day's sun

believing 
  his soul 
hoisting
&
asked
don't cry
as
   I feel...

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dear heart
  life 
    not
       always
          bluebirds &
       butterflies
 ...

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Written: September 22, 2023
No 1242 New Poem Only Poetry Contest      Sponsored by: Brian Strand
______________________________________________________________

Jewel 
     winks 
         ...

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bafflingly 
    bemusing
         mind
       &
         mood
    ...

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TRIBUTES
overt
 the
 implication
& correlate
with
the
  traditional

 receptive
to
a
 witnessed
 desire

 themes
 at least
in part
 a reaction
to be
 explored

 the intent
 has
 an intrigue premise
 persuasively
 constructed
&
organised
yet hazy
concept
of  inspiration

sans rigour
questioning
or doubt
created
 through
 a complex
&  informed
relationship
of
 obedience
in
 manifested
attitudes

a refusal
to adhere
to
unfashionable
& ascribed
anathema
topically
 perceived

more
 receptive
to
 witnessed
 desire

 themes
 at least
in part
 a reaction
to be
 explored

 the intent
 has
 an intrigue premise
 persuasively
 constructed
&
organised
yet hazy
concept
of  inspiration

sans rigour
questioning
or doubt
created
 through
 a complex
&  informed
relationship
of
 obedience
in
 manifested
attitudes

a refusal
to adhere
to
unfashionable
& ascribed
anathema
topically
 perceived


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Fugitive Truth -Asad Chowdhury 
Reciter - Shimul Mustapha

Fugitive truth, where did they all go?
In bottled milk, rice bowls! Nowhere to know!
In the restaurants, hotels, salons
In a library and inside  antique smells
Television or cinema, radio
In...

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POIEMA PERFECTED

made divine
        & healed
        rescued
        &transformed 
our life
fully satisfied
    ...

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October vortexes
      summer 
  scampered
   with steam 
     auburn haze
Keats poetized 
   musings of
darkness
   In windswept
mardy
   asteroid
blizzard...

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