PERFORMANCE POETRY

PERFORMANCE POETRY

I’m not very good

At this sort of thing –

I suffer from what

The impatient might call

“Crippling shyness”

So standing up

In front of people -

An ‘audience’ if you prefer

Isn’t really

My sort of ‘thing’

The problem with writing

Performance poetry

Is that eventually

Someone might ask you

To actually perform it

And… unfortunately

You can’t really expect

Someone else to

Do it for you

Can you…?

Unless that is

You happen to write

A play in verse

But we’ll come to that -

Later on

So for now - here’s a poem

Steeped in the frustrations

Of spending time writing

Performance pieces

That will never be performed

Martin A W Holmes, March 2017