posted March 09, 2012 03:26 AM            

Poems are meant to be performed and not read silently in your mind!!

share any of your favorite poems, you can just record your voice reading, or you can do a whole video (youtube) clip whatever suits you..

posted March 14, 2012 06:49 AM            

I was just reading some when I opened this thread. I recorded it in photobooth, so I didn't really have to do anything.

It was Steiner... I think it was the part about the Representative of the Air Element.
I never read it before, and only doing 1 take.
And i'll never do it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAyDMn-QMSU

posted March 15, 2012 04:39 PM            

Randall.... you have a LOT of Lurkers!

posted March 15, 2012 10:47 PM            

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Originally posted by SunChild:
Randall.... you have a LOT of Lurkers!

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posted July 24, 2012 02:47 PM            

Thanks for sharing

Anyone else?

posted July 25, 2012 04:54 AM            

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my voice is a little low though, also surprisingly quite rough..

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Ooooh this seems fuuuun...I think I'll look for a Linda Goodman poem that I like and try ta read that!

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I never read it before, and only doing 1 take.
And i'll never do it again.

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posted July 25, 2012 03:39 PM            

See, if I were to do this, certain people here would be like 'OMG, she's so obsessed with herself! Ugh! Can you believe it!'

LOL

So, I try not to share too much anymore or express myself, even though the arts are my life and passion. It gets taken the wrong way, like I think i'm full of myself or something.

similar to:

Anyway, cool thread.

An old Gemini friend of mine used to recite this one:
(his dad made him memorize it as a child)

IF

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!

Rudyard Kipling.

posted July 26, 2012 03:08 AM            

i still insist on you recording yourself for us. i know i'll like it. hell, there's nothing you cn do to NOT make me like it. poetry is self expression, you can read the cookie monster song and still touch me.

that poem is lovely, gave me goosebumps! how insightful of the father to make his son memorize it..

posted July 26, 2012 11:20 AM            

Well, maybe eventually when I set up a new youtube account. Right now I don't have one.

posted July 26, 2012 06:21 PM            

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red, im waiting eagerly

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OMg Venusssssss srory here it is: x
And the original: t

posted July 27, 2012 05:22 AM            

the original video kinda creeped me out, but it was awesome. i like weird, weird is good!

you on the other hand were pretty amazing, i loved the lyrics and they obviously mean much to you.. (also i like the half face while reading i think i started a trend heh)