Let's Hear It For The Poets

[Lyricalli]

https://soundcloud.com/todski28/just-porn

https://soundcloud.com/todski28/she-poetry

These are just delicious. Do you take requests?

 

[Trixareforkids]

the salt marsh
is beautiful
when viewed from above
mud and brine transformed
to shining flats etched with fractals
patterns that glitter in the light of day
glimmer
beneath moon and stars

how far away it seems
how long
since first we sprang from soil
tiny rivulets
kissed by grass
trickled
as streams
counting gravel in our beds
swelled
cut through steep-banked valleys
fields of grain alike
felt the rush of power fed by rains
were spurred
by the knowledge of mortality

till we found pleasure
in taking just a little time
to meander in thought
reflect on blue or stormy skies
and how it feels to harbour precious
life that seems to open up
even as we're shaped by silt

till
here we are
spilled, joined,
contemplating beauty in our now
curling round
splitting into intricacies
delicate capillaries
before time and tide claim us
and we reach our endless sea

She said I could, so I finally did...

https://soundcloud.com/mistress-heather/untitled-piece-by-butters

 

[Lyricalli]

She said I could, so I finally did...

https://soundcloud.com/mistress-heather/untitled-piece-by-butters

Gorgeous.

 

[Trixareforkids]

And a little frolic inspired by Todski's just porn
https://soundcloud.com/mistress-heather/animal-appetites

 

[Angeline]

Not me reading but

I find this hilarious.

Allen Ginsberg reads and is heckled by drunken Gregory Corso. What a find!

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I find this hilarious.

Allen Ginsberg reads and is heckled by drunken Gregory Corso. What a find!

Wow! Somebody shoulda sat on that guys head. old Ginsberg gave as good as he got tho.......his reading is pretty bad.

 

[Angeline]

Wow! Somebody shoulda sat on that guys head. old Ginsberg gave as good as he got tho.......his reading is pretty bad.

I like that Allen's father Louis gets into it too.

 

[butters]

She said I could, so I finally did...

your voice is so southern-rich!

delightful reading, trixie, bringing life to the piece

 

[butters]

And a little frolic inspired by Todski's just porn

*listens*

*fans self*

awesomeness x2

 

[Trixareforkids]

your voice is so southern-rich!

delightful reading, trixie, bringing life to the piece

the moment I read the first line, I heard it in my southern drawl. Thanks for letting me have at it.

 

[legerdemer]

Helga, by Tzara

Helga, by Tzara

I don't like my emphasis on "too" in "too shy," but I like the rest, so here goes. Hope Tzara and Trix like it.

 

[legerdemer]

Entwined

I was inspired to read a couple of mine as well.

Entwined


Man supplicates before a woman,
embraces flesh made marble, warmed
by superheated breath.

Lips lost in love, in lust, arms wound
tight, tighter, melt into each other
to share beating hearts and throbs.

What soothe will you caress her with,
bestow that fleeting melding of the soul
beyond which it's impossible to go?

What mere material gift can render
whole the feeling that you're hers
and she is yours?

And, when lost in thought, you mourn
her loss, what memory will bring her back?
The art embodies all of that, and more.



This poem was written for the Erotic Art Challenge, organized by greenmountaineer. It was inspired by several sculptures, starting with Vertumnus and Pomona, by Camille Claudel, followed in order by The Eternal Idol, The Kiss, and The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin.

Here's something I didn't know: "The Thinker was entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work. The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry." (from the Musée Rodin description)

It is dedicated to AlwaysHungry.

 

[Angeline]

In which I take requests

I'm not sure how I feel about my read of the last two lines. I did try to do Tzara's fine poem justice.

Also I think it's my connection, but I had to reload it a few times to get it to play through. I hope it won't affect your listen.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0COOe6mePhu

 

[AlwaysHungry]

 

[Tzara]

I'm not sure how I feel about my read of the last two lines. I did try to do Tzara's fine poem justice.

Also I think it's my connection, but I had to reload it a few times to get it to play through. I hope it won't affect your listen.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0COOe6mePhu

There's something like a kind of joy, hearing someone else read a poem you wrote.

God. I would marry you, but that would be bigamy.

 

[Tzara]

Helga, by Tzara

I don't like my emphasis on "too" in "too shy," but I like the rest, so here goes. Hope Tzara and Trix like it.

I don't hear much of an emphasis there, and your reading is quite beautiful and makes my poem sound better than it really is.

It's an odd thing, having one's words being read by women one might quite like but will never meet. (I'm thinking here of Angie, too, and GP, who did a wonderful reading of a poem I wrote some time ago.)

It somehow seems extremely intimate, yet distanced.

It's odd, although it shouldn't be, that your voices are more engaging than any photographs would be.

 

[Trixareforkids]

I don't hear much of an emphasis there, and your reading is quite beautiful and makes my poem sound better than it really is.

It's an odd thing, having one's words being read by women one might quite like but will never meet. (I'm thinking here of Angie, too, and GP, who did a wonderful reading of a poem I wrote some time ago.)

It somehow seems extremely intimate, yet distanced.

It's odd, although it shouldn't be, that your voices are more engaging than any photographs would be.

I love your work, and the way the ladies read it. They have such lovely restrained voices that work so well with your pieces.

I've quite enjoyed all the readings so far. I agree that it makes both the pieces and the those reading them come to life in a wonderful way.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

It's an odd thing, having one's words being read by women one might quite like but will never meet. (I'm thinking here of Angie, too, and GP, who did a wonderful reading of a poem I wrote some time ago.)

It somehow seems extremely intimate, yet distanced.

It's odd, although it shouldn't be, that your voices are more engaging than any photographs would be.

I remember that poem, it was lovely and a privilege to put my voice to.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Shell

 

[Angeline]

Shell

Beautiful poem and reading.

 

[Trixareforkids]

A few I've been meaning to get to

Waiting on Mama

Lovers

Make Space For Me In Your Coffin

Duh Orange White and Blue

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

thanks Ange, I'm finding hard to pick a good, clear recording site......or p'raps it's my audio system.

 

[Angeline]

thanks Ange, I'm finding hard to pick a good, clear recording site......or p'raps it's my audio system.

Maybe check your audio settings? I had to turn my volume down when I recorded. If I turned it up too high I got a hissing sound. I'm a real techie, eh?

 

[Tzara]

thanks Ange, I'm finding hard to pick a good, clear recording site......or p'raps it's my audio system.

Tess (I hope I may still sometimes call you Tess?), what I do is record locally on my PC using the Audacity application, which is a free download from http://audacityteam.org/. This lets me make multiple recordings (I often mis-mouth words when I'm reading) and then I save the one I'm happiest with as an MP3 file. Vocaroo has an option to upload audio files, as long as they are under 50 MB.

I bought a pretty cheap USB headset to get something I could use as a microphone for recording and it's worked pretty well.

I've been completely unsuccessful in finding something to upgrade my voice, though.

Your voice, as I suggested earlier, is fabulous, so that is definitely not a problem for you.

 

[Trixareforkids]

Hey y'all a little note to address some of Angeline and Tzara's concerns about recording other Lit poet's pieces. Soundcloud has a Private function. When using it, the file is only available to those you share the encoded link with rather than the whole of the Internet. Sending the private link via PM to the author and having them post it, so that they could later delete it if necessary, may alleviate some of the concerns expressed.

I'm not sure if Vocaroo has a similar function, someone who uses it could let us know. If not, I'm sure there's another way we could work it, possibly by emailing the sound file to the author and allowing them to post.

Thoughts?