Verseful

Maniza Pritila
  • 5.0 (4)
  • ARTS

Verseful is a podcast about the verses in our lives and how we feel them. Meaning, it is a podcast about poetry. It is a rather informal and inept endeavor by me and my friend, Meghan, to have fun talking about poems and how we relate to them. This podcast is for those of us who do not necessarily feel well-versed in poetry but who like to feel the poetry of life nonetheless. Perhaps it would be fun for you to eavesdrop on our feelings. (Taking a shot for every time I wrote "feelings"? There is more of where that came from ;).

  1. 02/21/2022

    15. Lake Gatun

    Lake Gatun (Verseful 15) -Shyanne Figueroa Bennett Glimmering membrane of water split when she enters. Sinks to clay floor. Sand. Shell. sedimenting to form a woman   dark as lake floor. Dark as they created. In debris of dynamic heads. Silver men glisten unsewn and woven into her being broken, hollowed to carry remnants of souls strewn in man-made waters. What can be made from nothing? The question hooks to her neck. Her curl hair gills for breath. Iridescent scales shed from slender sinewy form as her intricate jawbones mechanize for an open -- unprecedented speech for she who was carved out of isthmus intended for silence.

    12 min

  2. 01/21/2022 · BONUS

    Happy New Year

    Nothing much. Just wishing that you have a happy new year :).

    3 min

  3. 12/25/2021

    14. A New Dress

    A New Dress  by Ruth Dallas I don’t want a new dress, I said. My mother plucked from her mouth ninety-nine pins. I suppose there are plenty, she said, girls of ten Who would be glad to have a new dress. Snip-snip. Snip-snip. The cold scissors Ate quickly as white rabbit round my arm. She won’t speak to me if I have a new dress! My feet rattled on the kitchen floor. How can I fit you if you won’t stand still? My tears made a map of Australia On the sofa cushion; from the hot center My friend’s eyes flashed, fierce as embers. She would not speak to me, perhaps never again. She would paralyze me with one piercing look. I’d rather have my friend than a new dress! My mother wouldn’t understand, my grownup mother Whose grasshopper thimble winked at the sun And whose laughter was made by small waves Rearranging seashells on Australia’s shore.

    23 min

  4. 11/20/2021

    13. A Night in a World

    A Night in a World Heather McHugh I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t stay home where the big dipper rises from, time and again: one mountain ash. And I wouldn’t have thought without traveling out how huge that dipper was, how small that tree.

    10 min

  5. 10/15/2021

    12. Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem

    Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem Mathew Olzmann Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage might work: Because you wear pink but write poems about bullets and gravestones. Because you yell at your keys when you lose them, and laugh, loudly, at your own jokes. Because you can hold a pistol, gut a pig. Because you memorize songs, even commercials from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming. You have soft hands. Because when we moved, the contents of what you packed were written inside the boxes. Because you think swans are overrated. Because you drove me to the train station. You drove me to Minneapolis. You drove me to Providence. Because you underline everything you read, and circle the things you think are important, and put stars next to the things you think I should think are important, and write notes in the margins about all the people you’re mad at and my name almost never appears there. Because you make that pork recipe you found in the Frida Kahlo Cookbook. Because when you read that essay about Rilke, you underlined the whole thing except the part where Rilke says love means to deny the self and to be consumed in flames. Because when the lights are off, the curtains drawn, and an additional sheet is nailed over the windows, you still believe someone outside can see you. And one day five summers ago, when you couldn’t put gas in your car, when your fridge was so empty—not even leftovers or condiments— there was a single twenty-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew, which you paid for with your last damn dime because you once overheard me say that I liked it.

    27 min

  6. 09/26/2021

    11. Love After Love

    Love After Love by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

    21 min

  7. 09/05/2021 · BONUS

    Break

    We will have to slow down the pace of this project. So, a few announcements regarding that and some food for thought.

    3 min
  8. 10. I Died for Beauty

    08/29/2021

    10. I Died for Beauty

    I Died for Beauty Emily Dickinson I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth,--the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms. Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

    29 min
See All (18)

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
4 Ratings

About

Verseful is a podcast about the verses in our lives and how we feel them. Meaning, it is a podcast about poetry. It is a rather informal and inept endeavor by me and my friend, Meghan, to have fun talking about poems and how we relate to them. This podcast is for those of us who do not necessarily feel well-versed in poetry but who like to feel the poetry of life nonetheless. Perhaps it would be fun for you to eavesdrop on our feelings. (Taking a shot for every time I wrote "feelings"? There is more of where that came from ;).

Information

  • Creator
    Maniza Pritila
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Maniza Pritila
  • Show Website
    Verseful