performance poetry
Performance Poetry is poetry out loud; poems brought from the page to the stage.
Read my Cries
Over 246 years of a ball and chain around my neck. Threatened to be lynched with a nuse and beat down when we wanna get cut loose, just disgusting. Torcher to the max, you put my people on their backs for what? Too much eye contact? Shoot, a black phone that looked suspect?
By Andrew D. Guillory "Drewspeaks"3 years ago in Poets
Beautiful Artists, Fetid Art
I have always hated poetry but idolized the poet. I cannot say the reason, but I can count on my fingers the poems that moved me. It always struck me as a pretentious hobby that idealized suffering, as if it were something to strive for. Then there’s the other side, the side that paints the world as rainbows and sunsets. The side that speaks only of flocks of geese taking flight above a grove of pine trees whilst the water laps at the rocky shores of the lake. Idyllic. Paradise. I would never claim that life is not beautiful, but neither would I deny its claim to a fair share of suffering. But in poetry, it always seems to be either or.
By Samuel W Reid-Mckee3 years ago in Poets
