What is spoken word poetry? This type of poetry is projected to an audience. It demonstrates a heavy use of rhythm, improvisation, free association, rhymes, rich poetic phrases, word play and slang. Spoken word is more in your face, trying to get a point across then most poetry.
"Scraps" is a poem by a young poet named Kioni "Popcorn" Marshall. In this poem Kioni is expressing herself about terrible experiences people face like rape, murder and being abandoned, however the main focus is loneliness. She says "[she's] been feeding off scraps of love ever since you left". The mood she sets is strong, and powerful. You can tell she feels passionate about how other children without a family feel and how they get by alone.
Shane Koyczan is another poet who is very passionate and powerful. He says to " Be confident. Know that now is only a moment, and that if today is as bad as it gets, understand that by tomorrow, today will have ended" in his poem "Instructions for a Bad Day". This is about that you should always look on the bright side, that "Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever". The way Shayne speaks his words it very intense and has the audience tuned right in to what he says. He says "Every nightmare has a beginning, but every bad day has an end.". It is easily relatable because most people have had at least one bad day in there life and we should know that life simply goes on.
Another different poet is Beau Sia. He is different because a lot of the time he brings humor to his poems. The poem "love" that he wrote is simply about love. he uses his humor and witty attitude to project to the audience how important yet silly love is. "[he] just want[s] to be in the arms
of [his] true love, in a house, in a room, in a wonderful, perfect world with [their] two children". In his poems he speaks the truth and lays everything down, It has a really intense mood, however the humor adds a bit of peace to it as well. He says what's on his mind weather it is a good or bad thing.
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