Metro Atlanta poet Nhataniel Placide considers poetry performance an interactive conversation
WABE’s “City Lights” series “Speaking Of” spotlights local creatives sharing their inspiration, influences and experiences. In our continued efforts to expand the series, we’ve recently added “Speaking of Poetry” to our collection. In this segment, Atlanta’s most prolific wordsmiths discuss the art of evoking emotions with words.
For this edition of “Speaking of Poetry,” we feature poet Nhataniel Placide. Placide describes his poetry as very conversational and very personal.
“It’s not really structured in any kind of way … there’s not necessarily a rhyme scheme or anything like that,” Placide says. “There is a lot of rhyming and a lot of metaphors, but it’s not very structured in that way. It’s very loose.”
“I write from a place of figuring out emotions, thoughts and stuff like that,” Placide reflects. “It’s interesting because I’m really bad at communicating in a moment how I feel but when I write it out in a poem, I find that I can really articulate how deeply I feel about any particular thing…”
In this segment, Nhataniel Placide shares an excerpt from his poem “Stained Glass Shards”
You’ve never been too broken for beauty.
Grace been embed in your veins,
How any flame formed against you falls flat,
And your glow continues to be
The brightest thing
My eyes have the pleasure of bearing.
And I’m grateful to be a witness.
Honored to be an active participant in our love,
Cause it provides me with all evidence,
needed to prove God’s existence.
Poet Nhataniel Placide can be found on Instagram here.
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