Pompey poets hit the Guildhall big screen on National Poetry Day 2025

video by Anna Jones

Transcript

00:00...right in the scene.

00:02Will you ever etch your entrance into a heart in the silence

00:05and look at the waves working out at the sea?

00:08That's my fear.

00:10To bring the paint to the outer face,

00:13to almost be scratched as a canvas

00:15like an animal trapped inside a cave

00:17and accidentally dance.

00:19I've always felt a scratcher.

00:22I can feel it, I feel it.

00:25It's like a new silence inside the tunnel of the sun.

00:29I can feel it, I can feel it,

00:31because it reminds me of the other times.

00:33Before my eyes closed over,

00:35let's have that kind of pain.

00:37I will dip in the bushes as a person,

00:39put my syllables into wings

00:41and watch my eyes playing through my fingers,

00:44holding my mouth really ears to God,

00:47and my heart is a mouth.

00:52And so my words give you to a place to the sun,

00:54and wanting my wings to speak.

00:56And as they feel upset,

00:58they're locked with on the shoulder,

01:00and rolled with thick skin,

01:01that became my arm,

01:02and each time someone said,

01:04Speak up, we can't hear you.

01:06So during the scene of the box,

01:08holding the door,

01:09and the door,

01:10and the door,

01:11and the door,

01:12and the door,

01:13and the door,

01:14and the door,

01:15and the door,

01:16and the door,

01:17and the door,

01:18and the door,