Colchester Poetry Open Mic Night

I have been writing poetry for many years but I was never brave enough to perform it in public.  

Last night, having read a couple of poems out at meetings with both SKOPT and Colchester Poetry, I attended the Poetry Open Mic Night at 15 Queen Street, Colchester.

I really enjoyed listening to the different styles of poetry and the variety of performance styles I heard.  As a result, I am really looking forward to the performances which are scheduled to take place at the Colchester Free Festival at the end of the month.

At the start of the evening, I was uncertain whether I would have the nerve to perform but as the evening went on, I made the decision to have a go.  In the end I performed 6 of my poems and I think it went well.  Now that I've given it a go, I hope to develop my performances.

The poems I performed were:

Tears

Dreams

The Schizophrenic Sound

The Beast

A Moral Tale of Childhood Obesity

Condemnation 

Here is one of them:

TEARS by Annie Bell

Tears

Rolling down the inside of my eyes.

Hiding my mess

For it must be disguised.

Comfort and love;

Nothing but lies.

What have I lost?

"Nothing!" they cry

But still

Wells that feeling, continuing to rise.

I'm broken.

Betrayer, it's you I despise.