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Kanye West Def Poetry Jam Complete

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:20:56 +0000

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Black Ice - Def Poetry 1

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:13:39 +0000

Black Ice on Def Poetry

Def Poetry - Oscar Brown Jr. - I Apologize

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 23:45:34 +0000

Season 2, Episode 4

Blythe Baird - Relapse

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:51:58 +0000

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The Will to Win - A Powerful Life Poem

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:25:08 +0000

Read by Shane Morris
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The Will to Win
by Berton Braley

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace
And your sleep for it,

If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
And cheap for it,

If life seems all empty
and useless without it
And all that you scheme
And you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God
or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that
thing that you want
With all your capacity,
Strength, and sagacity,
Faith, hope, and confidence,
stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty,
famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body and brain
Can turn you away from
the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim you
besiege and beset it,
You'll get it.

Pain - Khalil Gibran (Powerful Life Poetry)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:21:55 +0000

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A powerful poem on pain and grief from the great Khalil Gibran

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Rudy Francisco - "To The Girl Who Works At Starbucks" @WANPOETRY

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:21:31 +0000

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Anita D - And the Psych Ward Says

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:20:53 +0000

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I'm Okay │Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:19:56 +0000

I wrote this poem to vent a little but also because I remembered a professor of mine talking about how the majority of the time we say "I'm Okay" or "I'm Fine" when someone asks us how we are. So I wrote a free verse about it.

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Cloud - "Guess I Wasn't Enough" at Voices In Power | Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:19:38 +0000

Here's Cloud (@ohsocloudypoetry on Instagram) performing their poem "Guess I Wasn't Enough" at our Voices In Power (@voicesinpower_ on Instagram) Poetry Open Mic Experience located in Philly on June 10, 2023.

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Brandon Leake Will Make You EMOTIONAL With His Spoken Word - America's Got Talent 2020

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:19:17 +0000

Brandon Leake proves that there is power in words. Brandon might bring a tear to your eye with his passionate poetry to his father Tyrone.
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Brandon Leake: First Poet Ever To Get America's Got Talent GOLDEN BUZZER!

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:18:58 +0000

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TSleeveless - "Romantic Psychopath" @ Voices In Power | Philadelphia | Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:18:41 +0000

Hey, poetry family! We’re back with another gem for you. This is Tsleeveless performing "Romantic Psychopath" at The Poets Pit in Philadelphia, PA, August 2023.

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Spoken-Word Poet Rudy Francisco Performs His Poem "Rifle"

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:18:04 +0000

Spoken-word poet Rudy Francisco delivers a heartfelt poem called "Rifle" from his book Helium for the Tonight Show audience.

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King Yaw - "Black Bible" @ Voices In Power | Brooklyn 2024 | Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:17:20 +0000

Hello, poetry family! We’re back with another poem for you. This is King Yaw performing "Black Bible" at our Poetry Open Mic Experience in Brooklyn, NY, August 2024.

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Kennie Sings - "Because I Needed a Love Poem" @ Voices In Power | Brooklyn 2024 | Spoken W

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:16:53 +0000

Hello, poetry family! We’re back with another poem for you. This is Kennie Sings performing "Because I Needed a Love Poem" during her feature set at our Poetry Open Mic Experience in Brooklyn, NY, May 2024.

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Chev - "Black Boy" @ Voices In Power | Brooklyn 2024 | Powerful Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:16:26 +0000

Hey, poetry family! We’re back with another gem for you. This is Chev performing "Black Boy" as part of their Feature at our Poetry Open Mic Experience in Brooklyn, NY, June 2024.

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TSleeveless - "Teach a Boy to Cry" @ Voices In Power | Philadelphia | Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:16:04 +0000

Here's TSleeveless at our Voices In Power Poetry Open Mic Experience located in Philly on September 3, 2022.

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Mello - "Black Queen" at Voices In Power | Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:15:43 +0000

Here's Mello (@spoken_word_mello on Instagram) performing their poem "She's Just The Homie" at our Voices In Power (@voicesinpower_ on Instagram) Poetry Open Mic Experience located in Philly on June 10, 2023.

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Jennifer N - A million reasons to like you

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:14:49 +0000

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Alesha - Go Black Girl

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:14:25 +0000

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Ciara Chantelle featuring @ Voices In Power | Philadelphia

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:14:01 +0000

Here's Ciara Chantelle (@ciarachantelle on Instagram) performing at our Voices In Power Poetry Open Mic Experience located at REC Philly in Philadelphia on August 28, 2021.

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SURA Ali - My Ode to Black Girls

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:13:42 +0000

Urban Word - Three Poems

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:13:06 +0000

Shayo Aluko, Jennifer Martinez, and Stephanie Pacheco performing at The Town Hall in Yew York, NY.

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Humus - "I Like A Man" @ Voices In Power | Spoken Word Poetry in London

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:12:42 +0000

Here's Humus - "I Like A Man" (@humchuhan on IG) at our Voices In Power (@voicesinpower_ on IG) Poetry Open Mic Experience in London on June 15, 2023.

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Matt Capone - "A Love Poem" @ Voices In Power | Spoken Word Poetry

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:12:21 +0000

Hey, poetry family! We’re back with another gem for you. This is Matt Capone performing "A Love Poem" during his feature set at our Poetry Open Mic Experience in Philadelphia, PA, June 2023.

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Black Chakra - "I Spit Fire" @WANPOETRY (SLAM MANIA 2019)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:11:52 +0000

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Jae Nichelle - "Friends With Benefits" @WANPOETRY (TGS 2017)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:11:37 +0000

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If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:09:57 +0000

"If Tomorrow Starts Without Me" attributed to David Romano and read by Tom O'Bedlam.

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If by Rudyard Kipling - Read by Sir Michael Caine

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:09:32 +0000

Sir Michael Caine's rendition of his favorite poem, "IF" by Rudyard Kipling. Kindly overlook the missing 20 seconds and focus on the overall meaning of this eternal verse. It brings together all the virtues of life: perseverance, humility, and integrity, in a way as to create the ultimate dose of inspiration.

If— by RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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Life Changing Poems for Hard Times

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:09:08 +0000

The Greatest Poems from our Powerful Life Poetry series.
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Read by Shane Morris

0:00 - Defeat by Khalil Gibran
3:20 - A Psalm of Life by H. W. Longfellow
6:15 - If by Rudyard Kipling
9:33 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley
11:15 - Desiderata by Max Ermann
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Music by Tony Anderson, Chris Coleman & Whitesand
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Oh Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman (Powerful Life Poetry)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:08:35 +0000

Read by Doug Barron
Music by Hammock
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Walt Whitman is America’s world poet - a successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

O Captain ! My Captain! is an elegy or mourning poem with the theme that every victory comes with a price.

Whitman wrote this poem to honour Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America. Lincoln successfully led his nation through the turmoil of the civil war and brought an end to slavery in America.

The speaker states that though the ship (United States) has braved the tough storm of civil war, it has lost its Captain (Abraham Lincoln). The speaker is torn between relief and despair.

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:07:53 +0000

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2Pac - The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Poetry Collection)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:07:15 +0000

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If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:06:19 +0000

Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson - Flight From The City

Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse)

Full poem:
Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

There are no fortunes to be told, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.

The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reasons why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

Suppose all the lions get up and go,
And all the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.

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Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:05:44 +0000

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there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.

then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?

When I die - Rumi

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:05:13 +0000

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Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th century mystic poet, was truly one of the most passionate and profound poets in history. Now, today his presence still remains strong, due in part to how his words seem to drip of the divine, and startle a profound remembrance that links all back to the Soul-Essence.

Voice : Md Taufikur Rahman
Music: Armand Amar

Transcription:

When I die
When my coffin
is being taken out
You must never think
I am missing this world

Don’t shed any tears
Don’t lament or
Feel sorry
I’m not falling
into a monster’s abyss

When you see
My corpse is being carried
Don’t cry for my leaving
I’m not leaving
I’m arriving at eternal love

When you leave me
in the grave
Don’t say goodbye
Remember a grave is
only a curtain
for the paradise behind

You’ll only see me
Descending into a grave
Now watch me rise
How can there be an end
When the sun sets or
the moon goes down

It looks like the end
It seems like a sunset
But in reality it is a dawn
When the grave locks you up
that is when your soul is freed

Have you ever seen
a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life
Why should you doubt the rise
of a seed named human

Have you ever seen
a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty
Why lament for a soul
When it can come back
like Joseph from the well

When for the last time
you close your mouth
Your words and soul
will belong to the world of
no place no time.

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Jennifer N - Steps on how to love me correctly

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:03:23 +0000

Rudy Francisco - My Honest Poem

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:02:37 +0000

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Do Not Love Half Lovers – Khalil Gibran (Powerful Life Poetry)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:02:20 +0000

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese- American writer, poet, and painter chiefly known for his poetic essays and philosophical short stories.

The featured poem, ‘Do Not Love Half Lovers’ is perhaps one of Gibran’s most treasured works, urging us to live lives that are true to ourselves without compromise.

We hope you enjoy our rendition of this wonderful poem.

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We worked with the following artists to produce this reading:

Voice-over by Shane Morris
Score by Steven Gutheinz
Self-portrait by Khalil Gibran (1905)

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