Tag: audio poetry

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rootless – SoundCloud

Listen to rootless by Cathy on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/Wo73v

Another little poem narrated by me; this one can be found in Perfect Imperfection and in WORD THIEF too.

I had to change/adapt “rootless” slightly to give it better melody. What do you think?

There is something missing, I think. Maybe some piano or guitar or something like that in the background, I don’t know, I am a bit unsure about this.

Thank you for listening, you are awesome ❤️

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Spoken poetry

I was thinking about this – spoken poetry, for a long while, but I am pretty self-conscious when it comes to my voice. As you all know, I am not a native English speaker, in fact, it was the fourth language I learnt in school and from listening to music. (My mother tongue is Luxembourgish, after that, I learnt German and French – both in school. Due to my Italian roots, I understand the language but cannot speak it, and Dutch is often easily understandable because of the other languages I know). I have an accent. And I have a lisp. It’s not always pronounced but it is definitely there.

Spoken poetry is different from written poetry. Things that sound good in my head or look good on a page don’t necessarily work as well when spoken out loud. Or so I think.

But, I want to give it a try. And maybe one day, I will tell you an entire story. Who knows?!

But first, listen to Fly, Lady Butterfly. It can be read in the book Word Thief – available on Amazon or on this very site.

What do you think?

More of this? More spoken poetry?

Have a nice day

Here is a SoundCloud link if you prefer that:

https://on.soundcloud.com/6GnXD
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Listen to WORD THIEF

The brilliant British musician, Daniel Cavanagh (formerly of Anathema, currently of Weather Systems) put the title poem “Word Thief” into music. I don’t know about you, but I really love it. I am grateful for the collaboration and for this beautiful outcome. Daniel wrote the music and narrated the poem I wrote. ❤️💜❤️💜

I love the outcome, the finished song, and I loved working on this project together. It was a new and quite enriching experience for me.

The melody and narration highlights the words and don’t take their shine. The poem is always at the front of the “song”. That it’s not me who narrates the poem makes it more precious and special – my English is good, but I am not a native speaker and that’s audible.

Again, I think this project was a lot of fun, and it opened my eyes a bit to the quality of my own poetry (simply by hearing it read out loud by someone else).

I am grateful for the opportunities given to me and for this beautiful song.

Thank you for listening to the audio above. It matters. A lot. And thank you to the handful of people who ordered their copy of WORD THIEF.

Have a nice week 💜❤️💜❤️