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Music to Write To: "Empty Crown" (Yas)
Black (Franko)
Overwhelmed (Tim Hernandez)
But who's not
Once I could think
But of what,
I forgot
My mind is caught
Inside a thought
Too big
And now it's
Bursting
What is true?
Am I, are You?
A dry well ever
Thirsting
This knot entangled
Synapse strangled
Mind encased in
Doubt
Can't find an end
Maybe my friend
My heart can help me
Out
Anxiety ridden
Emotions hidden
Tense and short of
Breath
Run away
No! not today
This time I'll face this
Death
I'm far too weak
Too shy too meek
Too insecure
Too immature
Too dumb too scared
Mentally impaired
Too useless
Too awkward
Too Broken
Searching for something
For someone to put my hope in
No one but You
Eternally true
Breathe me out
Breathe You in
Let it soak in
When I lose sight
Please hold me tight
And never cease
Overwhelming peace
Feelings (Austin J.)
I cried again.
Not that anyone would care.
I argued with them again, about something that's important to me.
Like always they don't understand and they don't care, or they just don't want to care.
It hurts.
The Painter (hitalot879)
EDITOR'S PICK: Shake the Dust (Anis Mojgani)
The Mission of Slam Poems is 1.) to showcase great slam poetry, and 2.) to create awesome conversations.
For these purposes, I frequently post examples of the best slam poetry performances that I have come across. This is a means of inspiring the slampoems.com community.
This slam poem model of excellence is called “Shake the Dust” by Anis Mojgani. I was inspired by the ferocious hopefulness, and the precision of delivery in this piece. I also appreciated how he crosses lines by delivering a message of hope to people on opposing sides of the equation: the bullies and the bullied, etc.
The site thrives on engagement from the slam poetry community.
We’d love to hear your comments on this one. What can be learned from this poet?
--Slam Poems Team
[VIDEO]
Hardships of Life (Callum Finlay)
Dark Thoughts and Great Movies (Mr. Brightside)
Dark Thoughts and Great Movies
They say most girls dream of being a princess and want to be rescued by the prince. What about the boys? I for one wanted to be the prince, find my true love and live happily ever after. Isn’t that what most of us want. I did not know the story ends with the princess sleeping with all 7 dwarfs the Ogre and even the donkey too. Why can’t we be like penguins or seahorses or better yet a Werewolf? Damn you Morpheus and your red pill. (yes, I just referenced Snow White, Shrek, National Geographic, Twilight and Matrix, that’s how messed up my head is).
Find Your Giants
Stand (S.M.B)
Perfect Strings (A Star)
My head is pounding
I can't stop thinking
Everything's going wrong
God bless me so this headache will go away and I can sleep
It's no use
Tear slicked eyes
My mind reminds me of everything going wrong
I can't stop thinking
Running through scenarios
And memories
And none of them happy
To the Forgotten (Rachel Travers)
Not boys looking at women like shark bait
To all the little scenarios that go on inside your head
Even though you know damn well they won’t happen
I Am BlakaFemale (BlakaFemale)
No longer able to see or hear my elders named, Amina of Nigeria, Candace of Ethiopia, Makeda of Sheba, Nefertiti of Kement , and Yaa Asantewa of Ghana. These powerful Black African Queens taught Maya Angelou the reasons Why The Caged Bird Sings.
The Rocks (Row MC)
Editor's Note: New Contest - "Why We Write"
Last week's contest is still running.
Music to Write To: Anatu (Bleach)
You Know Who You Are (Lorelai)
You know that you’re the one And I don’t mean the one in which I love I mean the 13 year old boy who took everything from me
To Be A Writer (Jenn Smith)
One Girl (Indy Schalk)
Touch (Johnny Levy)
Old cornfed, elbow-swinging suckah.