Author: wildsoundwritingfestival

A Dream Alive 1. Reconciliation of some dreams old, But I have lost seeing such dreams, long back Since days, many months and years , Even ages and eras are gone, Yet such dreams emerge as wild hounds/ dogs. 2. Tireless lake sees the oldest pale lady, Wandering on it’s shore in twilight. How she […]… Continue reading Read Poem: A DREAM ALIVE, by Pranjit Das — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

There were sixty-five valentines for you I colored the one from me your favorite blue I didn’t know the whole world loves you too with sixty-four adversaries I guess we could be through So did they all say “I Love You” or “be mine today & every day I want to be your valentine Be […]… Continue reading Read Poem: 65 Valentines, by David Ehrgott — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Performed by Val Cole via Poetry Reading: Under One Sky, by La Gina O. Gross — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film. via Poetry Reading: Under One Sky, by La Gina O. Gross — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor… Continue reading Poetry Reading: Under One Sky, by La Gina O. Gross — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film. — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Narration by Val Cole Visual Design and Editor: Kimberly Villarruel Produced by Matthew Toffolo via POETRY MOVIE: The Bombing of Tabriz, by Mary Freericks — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film. via POETRY MOVIE: The Bombing of Tabriz, by Mary Freericks — POETRY FESTIVAL.… Continue reading POETRY MOVIE: The Bombing of Tabriz, by Mary Freericks — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film. — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

(Genre: Painful, Betrayal, Love, Relationships) (unpublished in Candidthoughtsofawriter.wordpress.com) Where are you now? Where are your promises? Didn’t you remember I was your princess? Why you didn’t fight for me even just a little? I didn’t know we were two in the process You just left me hanging with those false promises Blind folded with your […]… Continue reading Read Poem: False Promises: A Tale of the Past Betrayal, by Jane Smith — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

I am like a ship sailing atop a raging ocean The high waves are thrashing, hindering my motion I have a destination in mind: to it I have great devotion. No, not any port in a storm will satisfy I am predestined for greatness by and by Yet these waves are getting bigger and I […]… Continue reading Read Poem: Raging Ocean, by Ramone — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

I’m swallowed in soil, engulfed in a trench On shorelines where I outlive better men. Does that sense of resentment get to them? As rounds fall in sand and the ocean breaks Blood red is distilled in the tide and the wake Immersed in the water where waves pummel my chest My feet sink in […]… Continue reading Read Poem: Pacific Theater, by Michael Ventimiglia — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

GENRE: Dark She was young, naive and innocent! He was in his adolescence… He was fond of her and she was fond of his presence… She aged less than a decade but he was older to her by more than a decade… She played with the dolls but he played with her, unafraid… She was […]… Continue reading Read Poem: THE DARK WEB!, by Vijetha Shenoy — POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

There are a good many things Indie writers and publishers have to be grateful for. Things we seem to have in common…apart, of course, from the abject poverty of living in unheated garrets whilst suffering for our art. (Look, we have an image to keep up, right?) Whilst I wait… and wait… and wait… I […]… Continue reading 10 Things for which the Indie Author is grateful — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo

My Dear Readers, I am humbled that I was voted Author of the Year at Spillwords Press. Thank you to everyone who voted for me, and thank you to the wonderful team at Spillwords Press (NYC). “…from the writings of the titans coming from the Latin American space to the writings of their counterparts coming […]… Continue reading My Author of the Year Interview with Spillwords Press #author — Short Prose