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Forum Presents: Your Listener Poems

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4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Forum asked listeners to submit recordings of their original poems for a chance to be featured on air. Every Friday in April, we’ve heard some of these poems, representing a range of themes like family, love, nature and self-reflection. To close out the month, we’ll play more listener poems and talk about the power of poetry. Tell us: what do you love about poetry? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

0:39.7

In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, we asked listeners to submit recordings

0:44.3

of their original poems for a chance to be featured on air.

0:48.0

And we got an amazing response, 115 submissions, including this one.

0:53.5

My name is Kavita Shreder, and I like writing poem as a passion.

0:59.4

And today I want to recite one of my poem on friendship,

1:03.8

always together.

1:05.7

When I am hurt and you feel it, when you feel it, I decide to ignore. When you, when I ignore, you agree. When you agree,

1:19.1

I forget. When I forget, you come back. And when you come back, we walk together again. No sorry, no forgiveness, just friendship,

1:32.4

always together. That was Kvita Shreder and her poem, always together. And if you're passionate

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