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Spoken Word
Spoken Word by Richard Perez
My style has a few but not many metaphors, I think that’s better for me because I like forming phrases that raises the level of my own poetry, even if there isn’t necessarily a greater meaning. So higher I can reach when it comes to the flyer words of speech. Don’t visualize what I’m saying just listen. I individualize my phrasing, no precondition. I like rhyming, finding different ways to flow in different timing. I can fly without having to flap, which means I can rhyme without having to rap. But I’d rather have no label, the word “poet” is able to express who, what, where, why and how we write. Because poets demonstrate through words, how we fight. Our tongues and lips our like fists, and our words are like punches and strangling grips, when we want them to be. But recently and constantly, my words have been about love. My own decision, to pick my words with precision to gorgeously fit in sometimes-awkward positions, but that’s love in my own tongue’s freedom. You may read them, but they’re not meant to be read, they’re meant to be said to a crowd, a friend, or that special someone I rehearsed it to in my head. You see, my poetry isn’t complete until it is heard. So I complete it, through the use of spoken word.
(written 02/28/10)
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