Note That due to the number of poets who may read, open mic time may not be available.
POETRY EXPRESS BEREKELEY
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Poetry Expressed Magazine Poets read their work 4/30/2018
04/30/2018 PoetryExpressed Mag poets read from their work published in the mag hosted by Gary
Note That due to the number of poets who may read, open mic time may not be available.
Note That due to the number of poets who may read, open mic time may not be available.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
04/23/2018 Paradise
04/23/2018
Paradise the Poet of a thousand poems is president of the International Black Writers & Artists, and was recently honored by the City of Oakland with his own day, Paradise Day, October 6, for his many years of community service in the local arts and poetry scene. He competed with the Berkeley team that finished 12th in the nation in Seattle. He is currently starring in his one man show, How to Be a Black Man in America, which includes him singing, dancing, playing the people and sharing his art. He has been called the Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson of the performing arts! And is known for such classics as, Beloved: A Love Letter to the Goddess in Every Woman, You Should be Concerned that it Takes Team of Scientists to Make Your French Fries, A Woman is Made of Love, I Love Everything About You, But You, Everybody Needs a New Name, and Why Oakland Has No Record Stores.
His work, called JazzFunkHipHoPoetry, has inspired the establishment of a new record company:
www.trueviberecords.com
Beloved
I remember before you were born
There was no sunshine, no light
You are the reason the Sun comes up
In the morning and the Stars come out at night
You are the reason God said
"Let there be light!!!"
So he could feature you
And be inspired to writes uni
Verses across the skies at night for you!
So while others dream of Heaven
Heaven dreams of you
................
And although you are God's gift
To himself - it's true!
God so loved the world
He gave us....YOU!
Paradise the Poet of a thousand poems is president of the International Black Writers & Artists, and was recently honored by the City of Oakland with his own day, Paradise Day, October 6, for his many years of community service in the local arts and poetry scene. He competed with the Berkeley team that finished 12th in the nation in Seattle. He is currently starring in his one man show, How to Be a Black Man in America, which includes him singing, dancing, playing the people and sharing his art. He has been called the Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson of the performing arts! And is known for such classics as, Beloved: A Love Letter to the Goddess in Every Woman, You Should be Concerned that it Takes Team of Scientists to Make Your French Fries, A Woman is Made of Love, I Love Everything About You, But You, Everybody Needs a New Name, and Why Oakland Has No Record Stores.
His work, called JazzFunkHipHoPoetry, has inspired the establishment of a new record company:
www.trueviberecords.com
Beloved
I remember before you were born
There was no sunshine, no light
You are the reason the Sun comes up
In the morning and the Stars come out at night
You are the reason God said
"Let there be light!!!"
So he could feature you
And be inspired to writes uni
Verses across the skies at night for you!
So while others dream of Heaven
Heaven dreams of you
................
And although you are God's gift
To himself - it's true!
God so loved the world
He gave us....YOU!
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Jeanne Lupton features 4/16
Jeanne Lupton is a writer and poet living in Berkeley. She has hosted Frank Bette Center for the Arts Second Saturdays poetry series for eleven years and leads a weekly memoir writing group at the North Berkeley Senior Center. She is delighted to feature again at Poetry Express.
73rd spring
honeybees wild
in yellow blossoms
i was born
for growing old
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
04/09/2018 Sharon Metzler-Dow
04/09/2018 Sharon Metzler-Dow hosted by Jim
Sharon Metzler-Dow is an internationally published poet and writer. Her poetry was published in the anthology Eternal Snow on world tour, 2017-2018. Based on her research in France, her poem “Beyond the Cave Wall,” was published in 2016 for international readership on The Leakey Foundation website, a major global anthropology organization. She was the 2014 Conference Poet for the annual International Conference for Women's Reproductive Health. Her poems have been published in Bay Area Generations chapbook and The B
At age 15 Lynne Cox swam across the English Channel and shattered the men’s and women’s world records swimming from England to France in 9 hours, 57 minutes.
Nightswimming
It’s another year
and time to swim the English Channel.
Safety boats at distance follow
but not near. At anytime a shark
can mistake us for a seal and devour
our whole estate for his next…
we wonder what’s nipping at our heels.
Higher, lower, faster, slower,
night’s tides test our willpower.
We navigate by watching moving sign-posts
in the black firmament above and below
and by currents pushing our back
then our toes
for good or detriment.
Hold onto the stars to avoid vertigo!
Liquid laps our skin, enfolds us.
Phosporescence scintillates.
Neon prosecco. Firefly fish.
Blue tears and blue comets.
Nightswimming
from Dover to Calais
treacherous and luminous.
A lot can happen
swimming to another continent.
40,000 armstrokes.
It’s all in the mind.
Sharon Metzler Dow © 2018
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