More of my poetry online

[skonen_blades]

That man amongst men, Warren Dean Fulton, has been taping the shows on a regular basis and getting a record of most of the poets. Check out his YouTube channel here. These are two more that he put up today. The Billionaire slam poem is from the night that I tied for 1st with the amazing Lucia Misch. Check 'em out. They're both short.

Wall Street

By the way, Commercial Drive in Vancouver is sort of the acknowledged home of the free-trade coffee drinking, dressed in hemp, let's legalize pot, lesbian, patchouli-wearing, single mom, hand-knit, human-rights protest, neighborhood. So this is a real burn against the community seeing as the Poetry Slam is held right on Commercial Drive. The name has always struck me as ironic since most of the people that I've met on the drive are one hundred per cent against the commercialization of the world yet the street is called Commerical Drive.

This next one has some nice imagery.

Warfare

In the second one, Warfare, I found myself slipping into 'poet voice' and it sort of threw my delivery. Plus, I think the audience may have been waiting for more of a point. A few people came up to later and asked me if that piece was in reference to the violence in the Gaza Strip. That didn't even occur to me but upon reflection, it could be made into something topical. Anyway, it's some fun wordplay.

Let me know what you think. Talk to you later.



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Comments

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

You're fuckin good. I don't really enjoy poetry slamming, but I like yours. You make it look like something I would enjoy attending.

ObCrit: More lacunae! Pause and let the audience express themselves, so that they don't cheer over any of your words!

[drcuriosity]

I agree with the ObCrit. I found myself skipping back a bit at a couple of points - not something you can really do with a live performance.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you but keep in mind that the poems have to be under three minutes long or they start docking points off of you for every 10 seconds that you go over. When the audience starts cheering and you know that the timekeeper started keeping time from the moment you started talking, you start to power through the cheering. That Wall Street piece went over time, for instance. I got points taken off. I still won in a haiku death match but it was still a tie-breaker instead of a straight-out win. Something to keep in mind.

[drcuriosity]

I think I preferred the second one, just for the texture of the piece. And for teaching friendly fire to cuddle.

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Cheers. I agree. I do think it needs more of a point, though, like I said. I'll put that one back in the tool shop for a while, maybe.