The Poetry Jam is an original idea by Steve Garside.  Send your audio poems together with the text of the poem (word format or rtf) to stevegarside@hotmail.com

Just so that you can sing along, here is the text of this month's Jam:

A ripened blue plumb
splitting in my skin
the caress of barbed wire
for a while causes pain
but a ripened blue plumb

keeps the beast in the field
so it can remain

adhering to your face

from a distance
where none can harm it
while driving by

bound by parasitic pledge
and it can observe safely from a distance
over the edge

and it can observe safely

from a distance together

walkers such as I

over the edge together

for bitter or for worse
 

This month's Jam was made by the minimalist-inspired juxtaposition of two poems:

You and I by Winston Plowes

A ripened blue plumb.
Splitting in my skin.
 
Adhering to your face.
For bitter or for worse.
 
Over the edge together.
Bound by parasitic pledge.
 

and

The Caress of Barbed Wire by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

The caress of barbed wire
For a while causes pain
But keeps the beast in the field
So it can remain
Where none can harm it
While driving by
And it can observe safely from a distance
Walkers such as I.
 

Please send both the audio and text when submitting to the Poetry Jam.  Also, please do not add backing music because we add our own music to the composite poem.