Poetry Slam = Poetry with an Attitude

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Poetry Slam = Poetry with an Attitude

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Silly Yoyos, tongue twisters are for kids. :twisted:
How about some poetry slams from:

http://www.poetryslam.com/

Here is a good sample:

A Poem is...
By Michael Salinger

http://www.poetryslam.com/modules/Poet_ ... linger.mp3

A poem is a 1957 Greyhound bus
Front tires balloon push wedged against the curb
Diesel idle vibrating the rear view mirror
So that the images blur
Pneumatically opening the door to individual interpretation
A poem can be a pair of wingtips
Exhausted leather shoes,
Or an angel's feathers
Either image will do (a transit token coin flip)
Sacrificial pawn centered atop scuffed linoleum square
Part of a pattern chess boarding across the floor
Of some Podunk town's art deco terminal
Cruciform-cracked plaster arching overhead
Stationed on the flatland of experience
Bustin' up the sunsank horizon with the blue
Transformational hum of phosphorescent neon
A poem can be the outdated pack of Twizzlers
In the silver pull knobbed candy machine
That you trade your last two quarters for
When you are starving to death
Or a poem can be that stale cup of coffee
On Formica counter at 3am
In front of the only occupied stool
At the end of a chrome and red vinyl mushroom line
When your dreams make you afraid
To close your eyes and go to sleep
A poem might be warp and woof weaved
Inside gray cotton ball puffs
Exhaling from a black tail pipe into sub zero air
As an engine revs in response
To the depression of an accelerator
Lurching away from a Plexiglas shelter
Accordion doors playing a traveling tune
As they fold closed
A poem can smell like burning rubber
When the accumulated slush
That has built up inside the wheel well of your mind
Has solidified into ice
Grasping spinning tire in expanding frigid vice
'Til you can't go any further
You just can't go any further
'Til you risk your life pulling off to the side
And kick the obstruction to the median
The rest of the world becoming the breeze of
Semi trucks roaring by
Then you pull away
Dissolving into the arterial rush of traffic
Leaving the clump behind
To become a reflection that is closer than it appears
Which will melt with the next thaw
Depositing salt bleached bits of gravel
In an indecipherable
I Ching formation
That confirms you were there

This poem will take you
To
Or away
From home
最後由 technobabel 於 週三 4月 05, 2006 10:33 am 編輯,總共編輯了 1 次。
I am not abandoning Yoyo, I am just dancing slowly away from it.
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How about this...
This is not a bad way to put your "listening skill" to the test.

Motor City
By Eric Darby

http://www.ericdarby.net/Motor%20City%201218.mp3
I am not abandoning Yoyo, I am just dancing slowly away from it.
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