slam poetry

Slam poetry: that magical mix of rhythm and rhyme.

Anxiety
Stop it! Stop it! You torture me! Can’t you stop for once? You make me jitter, You make me tremble, You make me laugh...
By Rika Lekay5 years ago in Poets
Why be a poet?
Why be a poet My skin isn’t of the raven So even with my best soliloquy I’ll never find safe haven I’ll never be invited to speak at an inauguration
By Kenneth cruz5 years ago in Poets
Ode to Mommys Monster
For you, I'll face a thousand demons Battle any inconvenience Rip apart Every wound and scar Because it's you that owns Mommys' heart
By Shaye B.5 years ago in Poets
Grunge poesy
The cherry burns red hot while the blurry cigarette selfie develops. I found myself alone, in a lonely parking lot around 2:51am.
By W. J. Bradford III5 years ago in Poets
Musings
1. capitalist cheese stacking on hanging human hocks of ham strange melodic mumbling disharmonious fading memories of Floridian shuffling hat & bag in hand---saddest sounds I never sang, "midnight strikes, mocking bird flies grabbed by the gravitational pull of your sapphire eyes"---soaring lightning fueled flying alibaba carpet ride, skin collides sparked fuse melodramatically crawling comet fire magnetized---I'm paralyzed
By Barb Snodgrass5 years ago in Poets
In You too deep
I want love deeper than the abyss Where we have no choice but to drown in each other cause where we are there is no Surface level…
By Luvert jr Holt5 years ago in Poets
Fear
maybe I don’t feel fearful, but inadequate. I’m not scared of what you’ll say but what I can do. maybe I’m not scared I’ll fail but I’m scared of successful responsibility and how it would look to fail at that.
By Ash5 years ago in Poets
Compliments
Compliments drip off the sender’s tongue like sticky saliva And when aimed in my direction Are unsavoury, unwelcome, uninvited
By Terry Anne Jones5 years ago in Poets
A love affair
In the midst of a passionate love affair My attitude is laissez faire I can’t think of anything else Except this darling dear
By Terry Anne Jones5 years ago in Poets
Mother
Relationship status with my mother? It’s complicated. She bore me at age 20 risking two lives aplenty in an age where hospitals were inhospitable.
By Terry Anne Jones5 years ago in Poets
Mixed Family
We are happy babies loving and kind just like our mommy and daddy. We do have a temper and we never back down. So let me tell you something so listen to me now, we aren't here,
By Tecoria Savage5 years ago in Poets
Hands
You’ve always been there for me, Always by my side, You reveal so much to me, About myself, That I never knew, And to think...
By Rika Lekay5 years ago in Poets