It's The 2025 Poem-A-Week Challenge Discussion Thread

[Ash999]

https://www.literotica.com/p/koyi-hota-jisko-apna
My Hindi Bollywood translation also published here on Poem a Week...ly thread has been accepted in original Hindi version in Poetry with Audio section....as before wud be delighted if my fellow poets listened to this lonely love ballad

 

[Angeline]

https://www.literotica.com/p/koyi-hota-jisko-apna
My Hindi Bollywood translation also published here on Poem a Week...ly thread has been accepted in original Hindi version in Poetry with Audio section....as before wud be delighted if my fellow poets listened to this lonely love ballad

Another lovely tune and heartfelt rendition. I think the audio quality is good and clear on this submission.

Poets, give Ash's latest effort a listen and a vote if you have a minute. If, like me, you don't know any Hindi you can still listen and read along in English.

 

[SmilingLez]

Question to the Man I Will Become

By Bear Sage

°

Future self,

tell me what still lingers

when the marrow of time has thinned

are there moments you cradle

like river stones in your palm,

worn smooth from touching them

too often in the dark?

°

Do you carry the weight

of chances left behind,

like locked doors

whose keys rusted in your pocket?

Or have you built new houses

where regret cannot enter?

°

If I could press my ear

to your chest,

would I hear laughter echo louder

than the silence of sorrow,

or is there a hollow there

where I buried a “maybe”

instead of a “yes”?

°

Tell me what you would change.

Was it a word swallowed

when love needed breath?

Was it a day you gave away

to worry, when joy

was waiting on the porch?

°

Future self,

I ask not for prophecy

but for mercy

the kind that teaches me now

to live with fewer ghosts,

to leave behind

a trail of flame instead of ash.

My favorite line -

"Was it a word swallowed"

Choked on many

 

[SpermFactory]

Another lovely tune and heartfelt rendition. I think the audio quality is good and clear on this submission.

Poets, give Ash's latest effort a listen and a vote if you have a minute. If, like me, you don't know any Hindi you can still listen and read along in English.

5 stars. I like the lyrics.

 

[Wonderer67]

https://literotica.com/p/raatkali-ek-khwaab
I am delighted to report the Circa 1972 love ballad I translated and posted in Poem a Week Poetry only thread has been published in original Hindi in Audio with Poetry section. Wud be prepared for whatever reactions ---- Brickbats or Bouquets or even Bullets à la Utah in all humility!!! If fellow poets wud deign to listen to my singing

Dude - that is killer! I loved it.

I spent some time in India after I got out of the army. It was/is an amazing country.

 

[_Land]

My favorite line -

"Was it a word swallowed"

Choked on many

Thank you ......

 

[42BelowsBack]

A shout out to everyone contributing to the poem a week challenge. Applause to the super stars who haven’t missed a week. A massive thank you to everyone contributing as and when we can. I try to read everyone’s poems. At times I find myself waylaid by a outstanding individual effort. Caused to pause and contemplate it.

So if I don’t get around to reading your poem you now know why.

A special thank you to @Angeline for ensuring a safe fun space to share. And also for posing a challenge that develops the discipline to write with regular frequency. Angeline you probably didn’t think of it like that, but discipline is happening.

Love the variance in styles every one it’s simply inspiring.

Yeah okay I hear ya “fuck Up 42 Who the Fuck are you??”

 

[42BelowsBack]

Sometimes a poet will write a poem to intentionally move one’s tongue in your mouth: To create a visual, aural, audio loop.

Visual), imbibing the words on the page, aural), the way the sounds move your tongue, audio), said, listened loops back through your mind.

Poetical Psych 101. Yawn, I must have slept through the rest of that lecture

 

[Angeline]

Sometimes a poet will write a poem to intentionally move one’s tongue in your mouth: To create a visual, aural, audio loop.

Visual), imbibing the words on the page, aural), the way the sounds move your tongue, audio), said, listened loops back through your mind.

Poetical Psych 101. Yawn, I must have slept through the rest of that lecture

Thanks for pointing that out. It's natural for most of us (well me in my complacency ) to think of poems as just a reading experience, even though some of us try to engage a reader's senses (hence the success of the 5 Senses challenge thread). But in fact poetry derives from song and speaking. It can engage us in many forms. Look at WSCGarland's Antique thread in the Hangout or Ash's (and others) audio submissions, Bn2f's illustrated poem, Wonderer's photographic accompaniments. And yes, sound and the way it engages us can be the focus of a poem (makes me think of Eric Baus again).

Thanks to all of you who are exploring and sharing different ways to make poems reach their audience.

 

[Wonderer67]

Thanks for pointing that out. It's natural for most of us (well me in my complacency ) to think of poems as just a reading experience, even though some of us try to engage a reader's senses (hence the success of the 5 Senses challenge thread). But in fact poetry derives from song and speaking. It can engage us in many forms. Look at WSCGarland's Antique thread in the Hangout or Ash's (and others) audio submissions, Bn2f's illustrated poem, Wonderer's photographic accompaniments. And yes, sound and the way it engages us can be the focus of a poem (makes me think of Eric Baus again).

Thanks to all of you who are exploring and sharing different ways to make poems reach their audience.

I always write as if I am saying the words.

Sometimes I actually do say the words and record them on my way to work, making a recording or doing voice to text.

https://voca.ro/17mmEhiJZGsb

 

[Ash999]

https://www.literotica.com/s/plz-grasp-my-hand : my erotic/ romantic Bollywood lyric/ poem ' Please Grasp my Hand" has been published in Audio with poetry