Voiced Poetry thread

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Okay, here's the thing:

who feels like giving voice a shot here? Anyone can post a poem of theirs they'd like to hear others have a go at reading, and maybe take a shot at reading others offered up by ... others :D

here are two of mine, one long, one short. Charley and Tzara have already offered to voice them for me via e-mail; now people might want to put links here to the voice files they make, or do a voki, or go the route of pm or e-mail. It's entirely in your hands. this is just the place where it all begins. ok?




the shape of the thing

who can tell me the shape of madness?
what varicose seas drive forth
in tension of the blood
what sad, voluptuous dreams become
escape from inner voices
as they burn the heretics -
over and over




and you and you and you


too soon, too soon, the eagle flew
while you were busy drawing down
the moon into those icy hands,
purchasing one-eyed wisdom
to crowd your poppied mind
until you could no longer stand
but gently tumbled tousled thoughts
to fall asleep in twilight lands,
asleep in the laps of legends.

and, as you dreamt, a river of woe
washed over you and carried you down
to those blasted banks, where the rocking stone
could be toppled by the gentlest touch;
you stroked the smooth-skinned serpent's egg
and, though asleep, you cried real tears
for emotions that somehow eluded you
and for the names of the faces
you seemed to remember
with a distant and palsied anxiety.

and you dreamt you wrote a mystic piece
where vague and shuffling demons danced;
where Odin cast aside his mask
and settled on your shoulders, round
a mammoth task:
a burden irredeemable - a lance;
a lance to bear in diamond jousts,
advancing through the teeth of fear
to seize that chance to win the soured prize.

Methusulah, with his long grey beard
whispered in your sleeping ear
of fools and wise men, sons and daughters
the Devil's love for holy water
of a single, human footprint in the sand;
of the perils of duplicity
the rigours of respectability
of such passions as can tear apart a man.

and on the sharp infliction of
such sorrows' textured wounds, you woke
with knotted hair and eyes still chasing phantoms;
and even though the darkstream coursed
still dully in your veins, you spoke
of fields of blood and lonely Death's cold tantrums;
and lifelong cravings threatening to choke ...
to strain and break the slenderest of throats.

with that distempered mind you reached
for lightless needles littering the floor;
and, as a stray dog to its vomit, warm,
to poisoned dreams did you return, once more.
 
the shape of the thing

who can tell me the shape of madness?
what varicose seas drive forth
in tension of the blood
what sad, voluptuous dreams become
escape from inner voices
as they burn the heretics -
over and over

Can I just make an edit here? The flow of this poem is interrupted by an extraneous word or two and I can't wrap my tongue around it, especially with the words that precede it and the words that follow it. An reading through the poem, I don't know if the word fits in the poem at all.
 
Can I just make an edit here? The flow of this poem is interrupted by an extraneous word or two and I can't wrap my tongue around it, especially with the words that precede it and the words that follow it. An reading through the poem, I don't know if the word fits in the poem at all.

please, feel free to play with this however you will without concerns about me getting offended at all!

the line, for me, fits but the reader interprets their own experience. i blame Byron for the phrase, blame and thank :D
 
I've already done a voice poem for Lit, so I'm not too shy, but I must say that it's a bit disconcerting not being able to hear other interpretations of your poems, Chippy. Oh, how I dream of hearing Tzara peck a word or two. :D AND OH, how I wonder how you read your own poems! :kiss:
 
I'd love to hear you, Charley, as well as Tzara. My sound card quit on me or I'd join in too.
I already won some damn Lit contest for my voice poem a few years ago. It should still be online, a poem called 'Lipstick', Tess. As for Tzara? :kiss: I bet your voice is ... well, I don't want to bet or guess, I just want to hear, relax and... sink... into it. :devil: I doubt it's Mickey Mouse.

PS. Chippy is the only one posting poems to read, I am betting she will read a few in return, and her Brit, or Scot, or maybe Irish lilt would give a new dimension to any poem Tess or Tzara. :D I don't personally have enough good poems to be read, but you two do!
 
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I already won some damn Lit contest for my voice poem a few years ago. It should still be online, a poem called 'Lipstick', Tess. As for Tzara? :kiss: I bet your voice is ... well, I don't want to bet or guess, I just want to hear, relax and... sink... into it. :devil: I doubt it's Mickey Mouse.
Don't be too sure, m'dear:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3172/2910190451_9f6ce81647.jpg

PS. Chippy is the only one posting poems to read, I am betting she will read a few in return, and her Brit, or Scot, or maybe Irish lilt would give a new dimension to any poem Tess or Tzara. :D I don't personally have enough good poems to be read, but you two do!
I'd certainly be curious to hear more or less any of my poems read by someone else. I might especially like to hear some of my "girly" (Minervous) poems read by someone female.

Can't do that myself, y'know. :rolleyes:
 
I'd be happy to give it a go, but don't expect too much. i sort of prefer the sound of me whispering my own than reading them properly, but i'll have a shot just for fun :D
 
I did one for survivor but I don't know how to link any new ones in here I'd love to read someones sexy poem lol
 
I read the shape of the thing out loud, I don't think anyone was recording me though. My computer mic is terrible, I'll figure out a different way to record it.
 
Gimme some time. I'll read them. Work is intruding on Lit.

I need to figure out which poem to submit as the next audio poem. I think I am going to go for grunge this time. Put a little more growl into it. Right Charley?
 
I read the shape of the thing out loud, I don't think anyone was recording me though. My computer mic is terrible, I'll figure out a different way to record it.
i'd be really interested to hear it when you do :)
how did you find reading it? did the lines/enunciation/stresses/word-choices cause you any problems at all?

Gimme some time. I'll read them. Work is intruding on Lit.

I need to figure out which poem to submit as the next audio poem. I think I am going to go for grunge this time. Put a little more growl into it. Right Charley?

i know the feeling :D


you know, after my own comments (and some others) expressed about how so many people don't do such a great job reading aloud (myself included), it's heartwarming to see there are those here willing to have a shot at it without taking themselves too seriously.

that's kinda cool. :rose:
 
ok I've made the wav ..... now what do I do with it? clean answers only on a postcard .....

i have no idea how you post audio here, but someone must. and the information's no doubt out there if we bothered to look but hey :D

you can send it to me in e-mail if you like, but it'll be a few days before i get to listen to it as i have to get a new headset first.

i hope people might post the files here so others can listen to them too, AND put up some of their own for voicing. :D
 
i have no idea how you post audio here, but someone must. and the information's no doubt out there if we bothered to look but hey :D

you can send it to me in e-mail if you like, but it'll be a few days before i get to listen to it as i have to get a new headset first.

i hope people might post the files here so others can listen to them too, AND put up some of their own for voicing. :D

I know how to submit them but that's about all you can have it email if u want it's not a very good rendering lol
 
i have no idea how you post audio here, but someone must. and the information's no doubt out there if we bothered to look but hey :D

you can send it to me in e-mail if you like, but it'll be a few days before i get to listen to it as i have to get a new headset first.

i hope people might post the files here so others can listen to them too, AND put up some of their own for voicing. :D

You can do an audio submission. Or you could link to a website, but you have to have a website to host it.
 
when i do mine, i think i'll voki them and then post their links here
 
Well that's me buggered then I used to have a website but ermmmmmm *lost* it it's still out there somewhere in the ether



What's voki?

ah, i'll put a link in here tomorrow. it's a funny little place where you can record a message with some little animated thing going on; i did a talking cat before. it's funny :)
 
xelebes if I put myself on youtube the whole thing would crash lol as a matter of interest why do you keep deleting your posts?
 
BEcause I note egregious errors in my posts after I hit the submit button.
 
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