SLAMNATION

I like the chinese guy because he is funny and he talks about sterotypes and how people look at you and automaticly think something about you . I like his style and i also like the guy that was making fun of how spoken word is portrade . I dont have a style yet and im not going to copy of anyones but just get a good inside and take bits and pieces from it. I like there styles because they make a point but also are funny at the same time. The group spoken word is funny as well , we should do that some day.

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





favorite line-"I am! yet what I am none cares or knows "
response- I like this poem because it seems like its about someone who no one pays attention to and is speaking out and saying im important,I AM. I love this poem and it speaks to me in a way

Passing Time

Passing Time

by

Maya Angelou

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

One paints the beginning
of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
sure beginning.