(It's my modernist western-style poem written after the event)
Greg Bem: Monthly Open Mic Poetry Night
Thanks to everyone who came out last night. Thanks to Carly Beth Nugent and Puthpong Sao for being excellent readers. Thanks to James Freedomz and Phally Kim (and others) for their pictures, including the one taken here by James. Thanks to Daen Lia Kelly and Dana Langlois for the support, and the cafe staff for their excellent work. Please "Like" the Java Cafe page if you want to hear about future poetry events, and PM me if you want to be a featured reader. See you later in May!
Puthpong Sao:
What a great event, Greg, to me and who were there,
Java Cafe is like a place to play our mind,
Nice to have been there seeing new faces,
Becoming friends, though their names not all known,
You, Carly Beth Nugent, Daen Lia Kelly, Bryan, Dana Langlois and others,
Java's owner whose name is to know,
She speaks Khmer very well, from New Hampshire,
And a slim pretty woman with beautiful smile,
Looking Japanese but Australian she is,
And Clement from Paris of France
And his mate Manek of Indian ancestry from Paris,
Oh, and a man deeply plunged in his world of writing,
With his mate -- a computer -- working on something
He didn't seem interested to anybody and anything around,
Just wrote and wrote and nobody dared interrupting him.
My Khmer compatriots, young writers and aspiring poets,
One after another showed their mind through poems,
Phally Kim Lenghai Theng, a woman with krama scarf,
She just sat smiling and her smiles likes those on every face
Embellished the event,
Oh, what a regret, no other woman readers just Carly!
Only if other female figures had opened their smiling faces as readers,
Java Cafe would've been then Garden of Flowers like Eden,
And a Khmer cute woman fluent in English, on a motorbike,
Vanished into the dark outside with her smile, waving good night
And regret not to have known her name and everybody's
And a lot more and more to say ... leaving a real theatrical play.
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