Tag: audio poetry

• A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud

  

  For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

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• “Note”

  poem read aloud for your listen Note by Jade Nicole Beals The dark does not hide what I would like to see A still star is still prettier than a shooting star, despite the rarities in science. Fireworks in the sky as a display are not a thing I’ve sought out after, but there is […]

  12/20/2022 6:03 am

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• “Pride”

  This is a very recent favorite poem I wrote, “collage” poem, inspired by the text of Pride and Prejudice, on Jane Austen’s 247th birthday: “Pride” …as this poem really is a “sound” poem, and the meaning may be felt more fully in this reading: by Jade Nicole Beals Giving over? Giving up?  I’ll never be […]

  12/16/2022 4:25 pm

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• “Dream Catcher”

  “Dream Catcher” by Jade Nicole Beals –for Kira hear me read the poem: You are a few years younger than me, and you’d already felt much wiser. I remember when you sent me a poem; I thought, is this by William Shakespeare? It can’t be for me? It is so good. It was in the […]

  12/09/2022 4:25 pm

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• “Resonance”

  by Jade Nicole Beals How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed. I want to kiss as a practice. If you wish to. How did I find this video again? I practice the dance; I must try it again. I go to the mall to buy a […]

  12/02/2022 10:55 pm

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• “I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird”

  

  featured photo is a painting by Franz Marc, “Birds” (1914) I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird by Jade Nicole Beals for May Ziadeh (b. 1886 – 1941) I was very disturbed when what I’d found logical what could explain all this is that I could’ve been a bird before this. A canary, your […]

  04/07/2022 8:32 pm

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• “A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You The Sun” 

  

  Enjoy my second ghazal poem I wrote, just complete. You can listen to me reading it aloud…and read it on the page. My first ghazal was “This Ring.” A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You the Sun I am standing far below the sun in gold and I am star-following the best […]

  03/23/2022 9:31 pm

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• “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake”

  

  my own photo, local garden in massachusetts, september The sonnet I wrote I’ve been telling you about was just published on Lothlorien Poetry Journal today! Here it is: “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake.” and listen to me read this traditional sonnet: —Jade

  02/25/2022 6:14 pm

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• I Adore…

  

  Most recent poet found with random book taken off shelf, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop fit in perfectly with the ‘Sagittarian Invasion’ artists on the blog recently told of…following Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (same sign: Austen turned 246 earth yrs on Dec. 16; Waldrop turned 89 on Dec. 11) what I thought… […]

  12/31/2021 9:47 pm

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• A Lord Byron Reading in Nearby Nature and Autumn Air Among Sunlit Trees Still Green

  Let’s enjoy some poetry read aloud on a warm autumnal day. A restorative and peaceful thing for me to do today and to share with you, reading a poem from Lord Byron’s Selected Poems, his most well-known one ”She Walks in Beauty.” Feel free to check out the other audio poems I’ve read of different […]

  10/18/2021 3:22 pm

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• I Heard It

  

  I felt as if Edna might be saying, ‘All this talk of May Ziadeh, and what about me?’ And I forgot about my morning petition until I heard the rain fall and it was answered. I felt these were some good flowing moments to read a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (an audio only […]

  06/04/2021 5:08 pm

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