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Pictured, “Nice Thing ‘Bout Getting Old(er)” –
Post is in response to Writing Spoken Words prompt from dVersepoets
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i spoke my mind, kinda : original love poetry
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dVersepoets Prompt – Translucent Poetics: Writing Spoken Words
hosted by claudia schoenfeld and ami mattison
ami, a spoken word poet artist, describes how spoken word poetry differs from traditionally expected written poetry :
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“Spoken word is intended for a listening audience. Thus, it must somehow manage to speak itself in a way that makes its various images and metaphors easily apparent, or accessible, to any listener and not necessarily to someone “schooled” in poetry or even spoken word…
“translucency, or poetic transparency is a key element of spoken word poetry….”
ami goes on to of course acknowledge similarities, but then progresses to describe the use of first person narrative to achieve success, ie, communication, with a live audience
as a person who has done a touch of community theatre, and a few years of summer outdoor amphitheater work in galveston, i can relate to how much it must mean to ami to do this type of poetry
maybe one day i’ll merge that old interest of mine with this old interest of mine 😉
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I Spoke My Mind, Kinda
so i said, you gotta be…
and she cut me off
like a third arm
with no sleeve
to fit in
you’d think cause i smiled and
nodded my head she’d
cut me some slack
but all she kept saying was
“you told me you loved her, you
told me you loved her! you’d protect
her!”
i do i did i told her again, again each
time she said “you told me you
loved her!”
how could i tell her her cat and my
cat turned out made for each
other
love ain’t something i plan you know…
© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma
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namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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I love this… can definitely see it being performed on stage.
Thanks for the comments on my blog. I can’t believe you remember the rowdy neighbor poem. It’s better.
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can’t forget it 😉 let’s say i have a personal-experience-affinity for it 😉
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ha this was a fun read….cant plan love no you cant and hope you are ready for a litter…playful all the way through man which plays well on stage…nicely done adan
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you bet, thanks so much brian 😉 it was fun to write too 😉
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Love this, I thought I saw some of myself in your responses – could be wishful thinking! Well done.
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it’s strange, cause your poem of your tree born the same day as yourself, reminded me so much of tiny sapling an uncle and i planted in his front yard, and maybe 25 years later seeing it again on a visit to that area
and, glad you also see some of you in the comments, i know the feeling 😉
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I love the ending!
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thanks! yea, that ending kinda took me by surprise, true, but still like an “oh yea 😉 ”
glad you stopped by
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haha…what a fun piece..much enjoyed…would love to see your face when you would read it…i love poems, written with a twinkling eye
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a twinkle a wave of an arm and just a bit of “tone” in my voice 😉
spoken poetry is in my future i think, but patience, patience, sigh, patience 😉
thank you claudia, your smiles made me smile this morning!
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Your voice has such humor and jollity in it! You really enjoyed the red herring that leadS us on to think there might be a fatal lover’s quarrel brewing. 🙂 Great story telling technique, and I can sincerely say that I never suspected the punch line. Good write, Adan.
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hey 😉 glad you liked it! i thought it was pretty funny, but was worried no one might see it that way too 😉
i think it had to do with the cropping, like a picture on the camera of a beautiful shrub with flowers and a bird, but you don’t show the busted beer bottle and cars parked all wacko to the right (making all that up you know 😉 but kinda works like that, sometimes)
thanks chaz 😉
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Really fun, spoken word piece! Using another voice is a great device. Thanks for sharing!
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glad you thought it was fun! 😉 i was a little worried ’bout it, not having an actual audience 😉
like johnny carson used to tell the audience when he hit a bad joke, hey folks, we don’t take this stuff out on the road
funny 😉
thanks again ami, really nice prompt write up, very interesting piece
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