Slamming Slam Poetry

Jul6

I like traditional and literary poetry if it is not too self-conscious and cryptic.
I like song lyrics and other rhythmic forms of versification. I like dub poetry.

slam poet

But from what I have seen on the web exemplifying “Slam Poetry” I can’t enjoy it. It seems, at first, second and third glance to mainly be about self-aggrandizing, posturing, agitation and racial/ethnic/gender complaining. It is delivered with a lot of swagger and bombast but it seems weak on substance. I like reading poetry and meditating on it in tranquility- and the best place I ever enjoyed poetry (Oxford Anthology) was living in an old bus in the Arizona wilderness for 6 months. I don’t want to hear poetry in an atmosphere like an urban-issues council meeting at a comedy club. To hell with that – give me rarefied verse from 2 or 3 centuries ago in a quiet comfortable place. Any day.

Embittered empowered women screeching about themselves and why they are ticked off gets old very fast. Not very DIVERSE, I might add..

Give me some wit, some transcendence and some subtlety please. You all go to the poetry slam – I’m staying here with the anthology. In a clean, well-lighted place.

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Poetry & Glossolalia (Urdu)

Jun17

Why is modern poetry so bad?

Apr26

With their insistence on the impermeable barriers of race, gender and class, these liberal post-modernists keep anyone from saying anything about anything but his own private world. “How dare a white male poet speak for anyone but himself. . . . How can he raise his voice above a self-subverting whisper?”

full article by Ron Charles HERE

Also Sprach Scriptaculums

Mar10

Good poems have changed the world – and the poems can even today. A poem can be expressed differently, is often more accurate than everyday words and comes with excellent sound directly into the heart and soul. Think with the poet captured the love poem to a woman and hit the bow of the topics love about happiness to sadness. Even if the voice fails, the right poem can take on the task of the embassy.

But fortunately enough, most events in life are cheerful nature or you can give them with the matching poem a humorous appeal. New poems we have written exactly that! From the high-class speech as a poem, short poems with punch and imagination and telling little stories as a poem, and more. Our poems and sayings are written in the correct meter and can speak and understand well. Did you know that a poem is really good only while reading aloud ? Then the language opens up more clearly, as well as the emphasis and the sound of words, the results only from rhymed lines. Give it a try ! It opens up to you a new world of poetry ! And not only that, because you feel the class of a sophisticated poem on a word choice that is more than just a tedious rhyme at the end of the line. In a good poem, the words of a line swing in another when speaking with very melodic. The most common and recurring events are birthdays. The theme of the birthday poems we have paid special attention.

And so we, the authors of the Scriptaculums, always try to keep it in the words of Heinrich Heine ( poet 1797-1856 ), who wrote about the art of poetry and poetry follows, quote:

“A bit of foolishness that sees itself always heard to poetry !”

And also Christian Friedrich Hebbel ( 1813-63 poet ) was us a mental model of his sentence, quote:

“Poetry is not to say anything, but to let us dream of it.”