performance poetry
Performance Poetry is poetry out loud; poems brought from the page to the stage.
Stuck
It’s really hard to put work into being a better functioning person when expectations of you are so high, especially when you never get credit for any progress you make, and when you make a mistake suddenly everything about you is related back to your failures. It’s even worse when your failures are generalized and attributed back to one thing that you rarely have control over. It hurts most when those people that are judging you are the people you gauge your progress to be the ones you deem most important to notice. It really makes you feel like the people doing the judging actually hate you instead of supporting you, and that sends you farther down the rabbit hole. When you’re already on thin ice you can’t make any mistakes. Having a predisposition about a person on edge, well, that’s setting up them up for failure. It hurts most when people aren’t surprised when you meet their negative expectations, especially when you are actually on a positive streak. People see one little hiccup, and then all that positivity gets ruined too easily. You realize your faults and realize they are your own. You’re disappointed in your faults more than anyone and take them harder than anyone, but how come it doesn’t it go both ways? Why are you the only one accountable for your mistakes?
By Savannah Fessenden8 years ago in Poets
The Night
The Night was a dark wave of stars in the sky. All I could do is say oh my and why if ever there were beauty to see. The Night it would be and wrap my mind deep in stars as they are. The stars swirl in ways I could not of imagined. The sky is filled with diamonds that twinkle and shine. Ever bright is the night as I see it in my beating heart. Even though it may be scary I shall never walk with such shock when night draws near. So never fear the night is filled with cheer and joyful sounds of imagination.
By Virginia Worthington8 years ago in Poets
