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Hi moans!
For this month, I want to do some poetry reading for the SFW audio, so send me your favourite poems you'd like to hear me read. Links in the comments, Patreon messages, anonymous comments form or email are all great!

I'll collect them until I think I have enough to fill 20-40 mins, plus some talk back/my own commentary. Excited to see what you all send in!!

Have a great week and take care,

august 🌨️

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Ruth Hope 🩷

"Every day you play" by Pablo Neruda https://img.poemhunter.com/i/poem_images/202/everyday-you-play-pablo-neruda.jpg

sarah 💫

Imagining August’s voice reading this is driving me insane actually

Misa Yamamoto

I don’t really have any poems that come to mind at the moment, but I do think of a book that’s sorta like poetry. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. Maybe another month you can read some sections of a book. I’m excited to hear what poems everyone loves! Also august you should put your favorites as well.

Saya J

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” by John Keats: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44468/bright-star-would-i-were-stedfast-as-thou-art “As Winds That Blow Against A Star” by Joyce Kilmer: https://allpoetry.com/As-Winds-That-Blow-Against-A-Star Apparently I really like star imagery 😊

Anonymous

Ocean Vuong “kissing in Vietnamese” https://poets.org/poem/kissing-vietnamese ❣️

Anonymous

"It was like this: You were happy" by Jane Hirshfield

Ella

“Bright Star” was given as a declaration of love to a woman named Fanny Brawne, and his letters to her are spectacular. Can we count them as poetry? I think they should count as poetry. I think they’re poetry. As good as the poems are, the letters are just… beyond. Seriously, anybody who hasn’t read them, stop what you’re doing right now and read them.

Thelnie

No suggestions beyond Shel Silverstein or reciting something by Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan’s Island. I just know I’m probably going to fall asleep within 5 min of this audio and never get to the end and I’m very excited for it.

Anonymous

I'm really enjoying reading everyone's poetry recommendations. They're almost as good as the upcoming audio! Can the poems be slightly NSFW? If yes, I'd love to hear you recite the Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje and Why Things Burn and Watch Your Tense and Case by Daphne Gottlieb (you can switch around the pronouns for these since they're from a woman's perspective). Here are the links: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cinnamon-peeler/ https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-things-burn/ https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/467661-pelt

Ella

Ummmmm “Masks” by Shel Silverstein please

Rya Li

so glad someone else also wanted shel silverstein!

Little_Lapine

Hi, August! Excited to see what you pick out for this audio. This one is one of my favorites. https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2014-01/union/

✨ jo ✨

Not me furiously saving these all these suggestions to read later 😌✨ Anything by Ocean Vuong (mentioned a couple times already!) would be lovely, but especially "A Little Closer to the Edge": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/88734/a-little-closer-to-the-edge

✨ jo ✨

Also "Good Bones" by Maggie Smith - kind of a dark mood too, but somehow I think you would make it sound comforting 😭 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones

Ella

Can we have some kind of open document where people can put the poems they’re recommending? I’ve been looking up people’s suggestions because I’d like to read them, but some of them are just kind of tedious to find. It would be a lot easier for me—and for you, I’m sure, but mostly for me—if the full text to each poem was available in one place and people could just paste theirs in.