Slam Music Tour Dates: Zuhair's Core Blog: Slam Poets Response

Zuhair's Core Blog: Slam Poets Response

3 things that you are looking forward to learning, developing or using in your poetry over the course of our Slam workshops.

• How to keep my poem alive throughout the whole preformance by having those two lines playing consecutivly after each stanza.
• How to see the good words to put in your poems.

• how to evoke emotion onto the the audiance/ reader.

2 things that Greg or Beth Anne reinforced that we have already been doing in class, or you are already using in your own writing.

• Well certianly similies using like or as for example when she was talk about the heart.
• I could refer to their poems because I form of stole their repetitive chourus and transformed it to my own.

1 poem that you wrote yesterday. Here is your chance to go to go on step 1 of the 3 step poetry writing process (step 1 - write, revise, edit and proofread,step 2 - memorize, so you can connect with the audience, step 3 -perform!). Take some time to reflect your poem from the 10 minutes ofwriting you did yesterday. Unity Somthing must be changed, the children are watching Guns, bombs, and nuclear weapons Have infected this world like a lethal infection Spread by the leading and now a desease All created by hate, will it ever cease?Somthing must be changed, the children are watchingSomthing must be changed, the children are watching Instead of unite, they chose to fight Not realizing what the experience brought to their children Why cant we all be in peace? Why have we made fighting our most valuable option?Somthing must be changed, the children are watchingSomthing must be changed, the children are watching They stood there and watched with their young eyes Held acountable for the price of their people With weapons is how they replaced education And stood their to protect their cherished nationSomthing must be changed, the children are watchingSomthing must be changed, the children are watching Future is not a catagory in a country of avarice which makes it a scramble to make their needs clenching the death of their reletives to their hearts and shed no tears for this is their way of lifeSomthing must be changed, the children are watchingSomthing must be changed, the children are watching Lost voices are left with imagration Forced to withdraw from their previos location Along with their children who still carry pain Of the panel and tears unimaginable to our eyes And made this an understanding of their way of life Brought with them an example to show unspoken Results are abuse, and murder leaving lives broken Jail is the result of their pasts appaling reflection Somthing must be changed, the children are watchingOne species, one world, we are all human, lets act like some.