What is spoken word?
Spoken word is a performance based poetry that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and story telling. Spoken word also can contains collaboration and experimentation with other art forms such as theatre and music. Spoken word tends to focus on the performance of the words themselves, the dynamics of the tone, gestures, facial expressions and rhyme.
The spoken word would consist of problems we face in our society today and a narrated video as the performance. The video performance would take us through a journey of this dystopia world we live in, which contains the problems our society faces today, and would be narrated by the writer/s.
Spoken word is something I recently got into several months ago and have attempted to write one myself, and will continue to write. I am not sure yet if I will be writing the piece myself or getting someone more experienced to write it, as I want this work to be inspiring.
Spoken word artists - Examples of various work
Kate Tempest - Balance
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJB7_faR9Es)
Anthony Anaxagorou - This is us - This is not a poem - The Pathology of like
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psftXEB55a8)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXohqBX9xck)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjllsZdMPkE)
Jon Jorgenson - A 'Godless' generation - Who you are
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zng2piCy4RA)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTAn-tk2pDA)
Clayton Jennings - What will you do - Get this off my chest
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9usS--6i7Ko)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCt-BRq9Zus)
Brandon Wellington - America in 4 minutes
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDNUGMMxLk)
Suli Breaks - I will not let an exam result decide my fate - Why I hate school but love education
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI)
Here is one of the first spoken word poems I have written; Titled: The Worlds Still Turning
The worlds stills turning
I see the people start a revolution.
But why start if theres no tender solution.
Caused by evolution, our minds grew in disillusion.
Money and greed isn’t the resolution.
Governments and politics be the reason for the worlds stubbornness.
No logic in what they do and yet we turn a blind eye to what they do.
No quality with the knowledge they advise. Like kids they need to be supervised.
Because at the end of the day
America be the victim, self deceiving, so stop all this terrorism.
Like muslims are the reason.
So close to committing treason, the worlds hit a dry season. No age of reason.
Disbelieving our world is leaving.
OBLIVIOUS TO THEIR LIES!
Their putting fear in your mind and wasting your time, like your death, dumb and blind.
Treating you like you’ve committed a crime, Fuck sake, which religion this time.
Ill sit on this rhyme until one day you’ll perceive these lines and realise.
This guy is right.
The truth is out and now your in doubt.
Whats wrong is right, and whats right is out.
So with all your might fight, till all is right.
No matter how long to keep the peace.
Starving children at the kings feet while the king feasts on deceased dreams.
Dystopian ideology.
Look what all this foolery has done to me.
Never knew it would be a burden to live in a place powered by hurting.
Feeling like I’m constantly cursing, the worlds still turning.
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