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Microphone or Bust!
Author:
Jason L. Ammerman
Published:
3/28/2008 5:31:06 PM
Pages:
228
Keywords:
Jason L. Ammerman,Microphone or Bust!,Poetry,Slam,Spoken Word
Audience Level:
Mature
Genres:
Poetry / GeneralArt / General
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Poetry about love, life, despair, happiness, war, peace and existence. Jason L. Ammerman's latest collection is a recollection of events over the past two years that have led him to a spiritual epiphany. His abstract look at what makes us tick is not only relevent to everyone but a must read for the soul who feels lost and the soul who has found their way to happiness. The poetry climaxes with a group of poems inspired by the great John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." Also included here for the first time, Jason L. Ammerman's epic "Windows." A poem about being an innocent bystander in life, watching the world go by from a third story tenement window. |
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Jason L. Ammerman was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana to a working class family whose constant support has kept him going throughout 20 years of writing. Jason has been a spoken word performer for eighteen years culminating into an impressive resume of speaking engagements such as Lollapalooza Music Festival in Indianapolis, 1994, the Rust Belt Regional Poetry Slam in Dayton, Ohio, 2001 and reading before some of the most critical poetry audiences in the Midwest region at the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago, Illinois. Currently Jason resides in Indianapolis and has recently been nominated for Poet Laureate of the State of Indiana. His determination to bring Indianapolis and Indiana back to the literary front has made Jason one of the most prolific writers of his time. |
Underneath An Indiana Blue
The pillows are messy
Hardwood floor sympathy
For the independence of the lover is...
Nothing
For I cannot do this unless you are here
With me
Hand in hand/underneath an Indiana blue/sky
My manifesto is written into stone tablet/morally
Biased
Kind of revolutionary
With my frilled sleeves
And imaginary pony tail
Powdered wig
Jealousy
For tomorrow, we will do what we do
Every day
Sing Buddy Holly songs/I have never
Watched you grow up and until now/I have never seen
You look so magnifiscent/seven a.m./eyes closed and
Dreaming
(C)2007 Jason L. Ammerman |
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