Short Recitation Poems

JUNE youtube RECITATION

IN 

SOUNDS OF MODERN VERSE...

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Rise & fall
cadence is all
one breath.....   is 
the natural   call...

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read aloud * a poem lives

*http://youtu.be/RfQCyNiNDAY an example of mine...

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gestures of irony
convulsions of language
limitless
infinite
peculiar
...timeless...

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William Topaz McGonagall
said to be the worst poet of all
Recitation made him a cult figure
a way to sucess for sure...

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instead of just viewing
ingest the words proudly
taste them all -- chewing
when you read aloud-ly


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Simple symbols of self expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour ..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor...

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Frank Mceachran a Cambridge don
poetry was lifelong song
He advocated recitation in 'spells'' size
Remembered now for his annual prize...

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The 'I am' Giotto of Poliziano
a monument to the artist ego
He claimed his art equalled poet Dante
only recitation & contemplation can say...

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A.Sunday morning- August Kleinzahler  

a craftsman, a maker of lines
      stands out from the crowd
                        if read aloud...

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In Llanbadarn-y-garreg, mid-Wales
There lives a preponderance of males
But Saint Padarn's church
Would never besmirch
Recitation of old fairy tails...

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HEAVENLY KISS XL1


My dynamic paraphrase  translation excerpt of one of Quirinus Kulhmann's (A Christian sonneteer) series depicting the union of the soul with Christ...

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shapes
          adjacent
subliminal postures
in elements
              of purity:
a surfeit of harmony
shards of enlightenment
minute observations
luminosity articulated...

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nothing moves,
silence!
echos of voices,past
awake!
faces appear,then
depart!
a tear trickles,
slowly!
the music plays,
faintly!
emotion erupts,
again!

regret whispers,
in pain!...

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Dangling diligently daring Debbie’s duos tries
Testing twin trapezes two ton Tony dies
did dangling Debbie dilgently try?

Comments from audience upon recitation.
"Meow" "Purrrrrrrrrrrrr"...

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statuesque beauty-
                           stillness, frozen in time 

You may see this haiga of mine(and other artwork) and listen to recitation of much of my PS work on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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Reciting prayers,
Body splayed across the floor,
Reaching for heaven.

Knees gnarled and bent,
Mouth calloused from oration,
Hands clasped tightly shut.

Passionless faith is,
Just ceaseless recitation,
Magic doomed to fade....

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Craft me a tiffany
that others may see

Cut out a matisse
for my mantle-piece

Throw me a pollock
to which others will flock

Abstract me a rothko
I can keep on show

Sculpt like epstein
this profile of mine

Draw like da vinci
a portrait  of me...

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SOUND WORDS

novel.  
            not new
temporal
                but true
invented
               not found
fragments
               of words
seen..spoken..
                  ....    heard
apart from
                  the crowd

a happening
                      aloud...

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Alone for a moment
 measuring
sound
Frozen pieces
in a
particular way
to wonder 
about
myself
To relax for hours
 as in
a childish dream
and revolve 
in
all directions
this prolongment
of self
limp..lonely..lost….
then
instantaneous
three pieces in form
with picturesque preludes 
I open my mind
 notice
&respond...

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JMW TURNER pre impressions 

fluid skies
wash
surreal
              scenes
from the horizon,
clouds
            rise
             light from sunsets
abides,hides
swirl rides
          above
          the sea

highly wrought
    strange
          &daring
translated
transcribed
      views

        naturalistic
inner visions
interpreted
the
      intense

revealed

derived
from reality...

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The man who spurned two love-wrought snakes 
   In reptilian copulation
      The blind seer, auspicious he
   And his clairvoyant recitation.

Born a male and died a man
   But for committing a transgression,
      Lived some years on the distaff side
   In a feminine intercession.

At the moral of the auger's tale,
   The head, interspecting, nods:
      We should take an active role
   In abiding by the gods....

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My keyboard is an extension
of my soul; every key I punch
reveals muted intimacy
by contriving words and phrases
given voice through  recitation.
An intimacy in peril
especially in poetry
where I lay bare emotions and
thoughts to catholic criticism.
Nevertheless, I do not write
expressively for consensus;
if I did, the first bad review
would force me to give up writing
and seek a different endeavor....

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Sundrenched scenes fusing space and light..
Abstraction ,fantasy and dreams.Images
transformed with intimate freshness.
Tranquillity of shimmering light
saturating the everyday garden scene
incandescent,yellow,red and green.

inspired by the Impressionist garden painting exhibition 

Hear my recitation of much of my PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro ..and

read  my short forms @strandpoet on twitter...

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Your vision, Your vision.
The recitation of a poem of metaphor.
And the blink means a throng.
Standing and clapping, clapping and clapping.
The world remains in grief.
Who's forgetting that?!?
Death is the same as rain, on either hand.
What is happening in the waterways. What's happening.
Just eat us. Just eat us.
The bread that's reddish.
Who watered it. Who irrigated it.
And who complains around the misery?...

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