Get Mouthy 11

 

A warm evening.

The dread of all

poetry nights.

Will the venue be

all hot and sweaty?

Will we have

an audience, any poets?

 

I'll be honest.

I was starting to sweat

as the clock crept past.

My voice had been cast

into a dark abyss.

A dark abyss kept

under rumpled up carpets

where abyyses are swept.

 

 

 

so, I was thinking where would

our words come from.

Great clumps of hair

started to appear at my feet,

as I sat in my seat

gripping my head

ripping hairs out

thread by single painful thread.

 

 

 

As I sat there alone

time turned.

Slowly.

Like growing a pet stone,

it goes on forever.

Can I go home? I started to moan.

Then slowly people start to trickle in,

A stream. Complete with

little bubbling words

popping to the surface,

No great rivers

but picture postcard

perfect peaceful,

placating streams.

 

 

 

And as there were less people

we were less stressed,

So, we entered our little basement recess

and allowed words to profess.

We were a lot less worried about time

we gave everyone more time to shine,

let them delve deeper into their collective wells 

and find

more treasures to tell

as we sat transfixed by their spells.

 

 

 

Then we gave the floor

to our headliner

to hear him roar.

Now Jae is a special poet,

he can make the earth

shake to its core,

I'll be honest I was more

than a little worried the ceiling

would cascade down on us all.

But instead, his words just wowed

the supporting crowd,

no need for a mic

his voice so very loud.

Buy his book!

 

 

 

Then we welcomed our open micers

back to the stage, I even read a poem,

though my back and throat ached.

The words were sublime,

the atmosphere a dream,

seems sometimes

all you need is a perfectly

orchestrated stream.

 

 

 

We dispersed into the night,

proud again of all of the open mic performers

 who had taken the stage, the new and old faces.

Our headliner Jae Jenkins Scott

who literally raised the rafters,

the audience who joined with tears and laughter.

Our wonderful venue and its amazing crew.

Big Difference we love you.

And to ourselves

we managed to pull it off,

even though the sun was out!