Spoken Word poetry is an art that is growing in popularity for the past decade. Spoken Word, by definition, is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection. Many if not all poets that practice Spoken Word focus of a theme their poem(s). Some of these theme include, love and loss, birth and death, and joy and sorrow. I found this poetry in the high school and I never looked back. It is so raw and full of emotion. These are some of my favorite quotations from some of my favorite spoken word poems. Enjoy!
(These are all just quotations. If you want to watch the full poems, I've attached links to the poets name after the quotation.)
"Before I met you, I wanted to be dead all the time. I still do cause the ,you know, mental illness. But now that you are here, I don't want to want to die anymore." ~Neil Hilborn
"Let my body be a Godless church, holy for no reason beyond itself." ~Danez Smith
"..Just happy being dope but them to doped to be happy." ~Javon Johnson
"There are some things you can't learn in New York City. Where fish nets do not mean stockings. Where the learning happens in between moments like after a wave pass and you break the surface, gasping for air." ~Sarah Kay
"I check under the bed every night for monsters but never the mirror. Not because I do not know what lurks but because this beast is a part of me I don't know how to kill." ~Cassidy Foust
"I like the air on the couch with you cause it's simple." ~Sean Patrick Mulroy
" Anxiety is the cousin visiting out of town, Depression felt obligated to bring to the party. Mom, I am the party." ~Sabrina Benaim
"This body knows too big, knows only one side of the piggyback ride, know entire stores that don't carry it's size. This body knows inadequate, knows that "fat" is the first thing they all notice." ~Beck Cooper
"I think the genes for being an artist aren't just related, they're the same gene." ~Neil Hilborn
"If you develop an eating disorder when you are already thin to begin with, you go to hospital. If you develop an eating disorder when you are not thin to begin with, you are a success story." ~Blythe Baird
"You are now 18, standing on the precipice trembling before your own greatness. This is your call to leap." ~Clementine von Radics
"Tell the floor, 'It was a beautiful final bed, a last pair of arms, a wooden womb of an exit." ~Akeemjamal Rollins
"This is for the 2 year-olds who can not be understood because they speak half English and half God. Shake the dust... Do not settle for letting these waves settle and for the dust to collect in your veins." ~Anis Mojgani
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