Imaginary Toads

Today the garden is full of poems from Patrick Farris, Oscar Garcia, Al Williams, and Sarah Gill. Truly a gift. Enjoy.

Imaginary Toads made a call to the community for poems and they answered - we have two guest poets Carley Senioris and Chase Tomerlin offering their hearts and souls - along with Patrick and Will as per usual.

Will and Patrick in conversation with Fellow Poet Chase Tomerlin.

Reading a few of Wills poems and reading some other works by Langston Hughes and Ted Kooser.

Have you ever written a poem for someone? What about in response to another? Would you write us a poem?

How does music alter a poem? Patrick and Will work through how song writing changes how we write poems. How music shifts poems into another dimension. We play some of our original songs and we even mumble someone else. We laugh and cry - its a special time we are glad to share with you!

Where does the poem sit with you ? Do you feel the words coming off your lips? Does the pen dragging across the paper send signals directly to your brain? What does the physical conception of our ideas, art, and poems manifest? Where is the incarnation of the poem?

A developling theme continues into this episode from the last - what is your passion? where does it come from? How does it change the way you live? How does it walk around? How does it bend the light around you ?

Patrick and Will discuss the way we use language, and why we , you, or anyone continues making art.

And of course we use poems.

Enjoy.

Patrick opens with a cover of Adele. We read and think through some Wendell Berry poems, and then we read a poem Patrick and Will Wrote together this week.

if you stay to the end you'll hear a recitation of part of an Allen Ginsburg poem rapped over a Beat by the Infamous Nico Garza.

Enjoy and share with your friends, write us some poems, read ours out load with your close knit friend group.