performance poetry
Performance Poetry is poetry out loud; poems brought from the page to the stage.
Craquelure
My word: craquelure - a network of fine cracks in either the paint or varnish of a painting. My connection: Well, I was going to choose crapulent, catarolysis or cockalorum as they would be quite funny. Then, I found craquelure. It made me think about my long-standing views on ageing and the high, ridiculous beauty standards placed on people, predominately by the media, big businesses, influencers and celebrities, or at least the culture and business they inhabit. Societal pressures to maintain unrealistic standards when ageing is something we all go through has never sat well with me. When I see lines on a face, I don't ever think I've thought "ew". I know that not everyone loves their lines, cracks and imperfections, whether age-related or stress-related. But, in my opinion, like craquelure that naturally develops on an old painting, the lines on a face and imperfections add to an individual, rather than making them less. Fine lines and grey hair should be admired and respected. Plus, does it matter what someone looks like? Like, really?
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
To Sunderland; I Leave My Heart
1. Beautifully bodacious & blooming, but sultry in His approach, that is how He hesitantly hovered over My quiet spirit, until I found Myself drawn to every rhythmic wave of his harmonious hands taking the melodic sound down through His sensual shoulders, then releasing the next move with climatic collisions and precision so His hips made the decision to ignite this hypnotic process all over again.
By Andrew Little2 years ago in Poets
