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30 April 2021 | NPM | “Poetry Slam”

April 30, 2021 By Natalia Corres

by Anna Marco

 Poets
 don’t be afraid
 to fall off the paper edge
 Into the abyss of
 A E I O U
 Aaay eeee eye Oh spinning euuu
 Fall Into word pools
 Get tangled up in xyz and ABC
 Break rules, Make rules
 Onomatopoeia excites
 Cuckoo meow honk boom
 Typing tapping
 Swirling twirling black marks upon white paper
 Form communication
 Soul speak spirit
 Heart to heart language 
 Be the opposite of normal
 Gifted wordsmith
 not crayon scripture
 It's how we live
 Throbbing head
 Midnight invocations
 we fall off the paper edge
 To sleep
 and start again tomorrow
 Go

Anna Marco was born into theatrical heritage, gifted in creative writing and majored in Media. Her professional writing career spans 30 years. She is an internationally published author to 6 books and 800 magazine articles. She won the Los Angeles Valley College Poetry Contest for “The Lemon Tree.”

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: April National Poetry Month, NPM

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  1. Annis says

    May 2, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    I love this! Great advice! Thank you. xoA

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