The Liminal Threshold

Spoken Word Poetry by Tala Sage

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I describe my poetry as painting with words. Now, with the superpower of AI animation, I get to creative direct my poems into short films: sculpted in ceramic, mended in gold, set in torn paper twilight and animated at twelve frames a second.

The short films

Step into a poem

One poem, one world. Hover to wake a scene, click to watch.

How the world is made

Broken, then mended in gold

Ceramic and kintsugi

Every figure is a mosaic of faceted tiles. When feeling breaks it open, the seams fill with gold.

Torn paper twilight

Watercolor landscapes in perpetual dusk: violet, coral, rose, teal and gold.

Twelve frames a second

Stepped like stop motion, cut on the breath, ignited at the surge. Every frame moves.

Character sheet of Tala as a painted folk icon: ceramic mosaic figure with gold seams, chestnut hair carved in ribbons, opal eyes
Tala, as he lives in the world

The poet

Tala Sage

I've been writing poetry since I was 14 years old. More than 100 pieces have waited in my backlog for years, ready to jump into a visual form.

2026 is the year I made it happen.

The Liminal Threshold is where each poem gets to become the place it describes.

Stay at the threshold

A new short film, each time the door opens

@the.liminal.threshold everywhere

The Liminal Threshold

Spoken Word Poetry by Tala Sage

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