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THE PHILADELPHIA POETRY FESTIVAL
April 23, 2011
April 23, 2011
12pm: Opening Remarks, Leonard Gontarek
1ST SET
Hosted by: LEONARD GONTAREK
- The Free Library Teen Poetry Slam Finalists (Aurora Sanchez)
- National Black Authors Tour (Dr. Maurice Henderson/ B. Michelle Horton)
- The 34th Street Poets (Betti Kahn / Deidra Greenleaf Allan)
- Poetry as Performance (Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon )
- Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (Dr. Christopher Bursk/Amy Small McKinney)
- Moveable Beats Poetry Series (Peter Baroth / Courtney Bambrick)
Hosted by: JOANNE LEVA
1:00pm: Special Guest, Thomas Devaney
- The Green Line Poetry Series (Leonard Gontarek /Charles Carr/Elyse Fenton)
- Overbrook Poets (Peter Krok / Tree Riesener)
- Poet-tree en Motion Performance Series (Gabrielle deBurke)
- Monday Poets Series (Amy Thatcher)
- Moonstone Art Center (Larry Robin)
- Certificate Program in Writing & Publishing –Drexel University (Harriet Levin)
Hosted by: TAMARA OAKMAN
2:00pm: Special Guest, Nathalie Anderson
- Mad Poets Society (Eileen D’Angelo / John Timpane)
- Painted Bride Quarterly (Kathleen Volk Miller/ Paul Siegell)
- Apiary Magazine (Lillian Dunn / Tamara Oakman)
- Philadelphia Poets (Rosemary Cappello / Peter Baroth)
- Poetryplus.com (Catherine Weiss-Celley)
- Philadelphia Writers’ Workshop (Rachel Kobin / Kathryn Smith)
Hosted by: AUTUMN KONOPKA
3:00pm: Special Guest, Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
- Making Poems that Last: Poetry Workshop (Leonard Gontarek /Catherine Bancroft)
- Poetry-Go-Round (Barbara Brenner /Christopher D. Ney)
- Poetry Noir (Joanne Leva / Scott Edward Anderson)
- East Falls Poetry Series (Courtney Bambrick )
- Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio (Alison Hicks / Kay Peters)
- New Philadelphia Poets (Debrah Morkun)
- Schuylkill Valley Journal (Peter Krok/Fereshteh Sholevar)
Not a Philly Poet, a Cleveland area Poet, in Love with a woman in Philly. and wanted to get this poem out there, and maybe get my poetry portfolio out there.
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Feeling
A Bit burned out
But hanging in there
missing the kiss
the spark
the unbridled passion
of woman
to awaken me
to re-energize me
about to drift off to sleep
wondering
what I will dream of
what the new day
will bring
when I awaken
Feeling
So tired of the lonely nights
Needing a Vacation
Needing a release
Needing the one my heart
Bleeds for
and my Soul Aches for
Needing the one
who told me
She wanted to kiss me
Needing the one
that brings me into Balance
Needing you
Chayil
Needing the one
who brings Joy to my heart
and Euphoria to my Soul
The one who Lives and Works
in Philly.
You had me from the Start
Your Beauty, and my love
for you grew slowly day by day
Its been about a year
since we have known each other
the ups and downs we have
shared.
The near misses in being
together in reality
I don't want to wait until Tomorrow
How do I show you
a woman I have never met
what you mean to me
You breath new life into me
you give me hope
you give me confidence
You give me feelings I have never felt before
I look into your eyes
and I see a paradise
We share so much in common
and I want to share so much with you
Feeling lost without the phone calls
lost without the emails
This is not april fools joke
I just wanted you to finally know
How deeply you are missed
How profoundly you have touched
my heart, my soul, my being
this past year of Correspondence.
With Affection
Mike, aka Meren aka Merseus
waiting
to hear from you again Chayil
MJ Meren