Zuhair's Core Blog: Slam Poets Response

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

• How to save my poem alive throughout the whole preformance by having those two lines playing consecutivly after each stanza.
• How to see the right words to put in your poems.
• how to arouse 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 instance when she was talk around the heart.
• I could relate to their poems because I sort of stole their repetitive chourus and transformed it to my own.

1 poem that you wrote yesterday. Here is your adventure to proceed 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 relate with the audience, step 3 -perform!). Take some time to shine your poem from the 10 minutes ofwriting you did yesterday. Unity Somthing must be changed, the children are watching Guns, bombs, and atomic weapons Have infected this world like a lethal infection Spread by the leadership 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 contend Not realizing what the experience brought to their children Why cant we all live in peace? Why take 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 damage 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 state of avarice which makes it a scramble to give their needs clenching the last of their reletives to their hearts and shed no crying 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 remove from their previos location Along with their children who still carry pain Of the gore and tears unimaginable to our eyes And made this an agreement of their way of living Brought with them an exercise to show unspoken Results are abuse, and murder leaving lives broken Jail is the issue of their pasts appaling reflection Somthing must be changed, the children are watchingOne species, one world, we are all human, lets act like some.