Slam Nation

I didn't know a lot about spoken word peotry before, so I found a lot of things interesting. Like the styles of the peoms and the way people said the poems. I thought it was really cool when the people did a collaborative poem and there were a lot of sound effects going on. Also on how you say the poem effects the mood and how the poem should be precieved. Like the Asian man who read a poem about Asian sterotypes it was meant to be funny but also serious at the same time. Like what he was saying had a deep meaning but the way he said it made it kind of humorus.

I Am!

I Am!

by John Clare

I am! yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost;
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;
And e'en the dearest—that I loved the best—
Are strange—nay, rather stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smil'd or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat!

" -- -- it was at the great concert given by the
Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing
`Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!'You know the song, perhaps?" "I've heard something like it," said Alice. "It goes on, you know," the Hatter continued,
"in this way: -- --
`Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle --'"

Lewis Carroll