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8 Spoken Word Poems You Need To Listen To

Break out the tissues.

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8 Spoken Word Poems You Need To Listen To
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Spoken word has the power to transform otherwise difficult to explain feelings into tangible heart wrenching ones.

Whether it's about your recent break up, mental health, or a funny story, spoken word can take you through the journey of one person's experience and make it feel like your own. With incredible artists such as Andrea GIbson and Sarah Kay, it's hard not to fall in love with this art form and all it has to offer. Here are 8 spoken word poems that will challenge your thinking, pull at your heart strings, and remind you of the power of words.

1. The Nutritionist- by Andrea Gibson


"So let me tell you I know there are days it looks like the whole world is dancing in the streets when you break down like the doors of the looted buildings
You are not alone and wondering who will be convicted of the crime of insisting you keep loading your grief into the chamber of your shame
You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy"

2. OCD - by Neil Hilborn


"She told me that she shouldn't have let me get so attached to her; that this whole thing was a mistake, but how can it be a mistake that I don't have to wash my hands after I touch her?"

3. Shrinking Women - Lily Myers


"And I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking, making space for the entrance of men into their lives, not knowing how to fill it back up once they leave"

4. 14 Lines From Love Letters or Suicide Notes- Doc Luben


"I always imagined this would happen without warning, like on an ocean cliffside. But this is the kind of thing, we're waiting for the time to be right would just mean waiting forever"

5. Explaining My Depression to My Mother - Sabrina Benaim


"I am sleepwalking on an ocean of happiness that I can not baptize myself in"

6. If I Should Have a Daughter- Sarah Kay


"There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away"

7. The Fifth One That Walked Away - Carrie Rudzinski


"I did not know to fear the hands that loved you before my own. You stained her all over me, left the windows open while I slept in your bed. washed me with a sponge doused in her spit. Every night I watched you slit off my skin and hang it on her bones. I could not open my mouth for fear she'd come spilling out"

8. I do- Andrea Gibson


"Buy me a ring that will turn my finger green so I can imagine our love is a forest, I want to get lost in you"
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