Best Oral Poems

Oral Presentation of a Poem

Introduction

This poem to me God Himself imparted
Even if you happen to be heavy hearted
Should always stick around for a while
God will greet you with a great big smile.

Poem Itself

Have heard that only to certain degrees
But yet not ever can you perfectly...

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Separate Fate scratching Chance so that it may be secure.

Offerings Pile up, Circumstances of Dismantled monotony and softly licking dance.

Undiminished cheekbones flushed with Hope,

Slide up and Down,

Autoerotic, Hanging me,  with vivid--tight nerves, Chaining throat to soul.

As an oddly subtle sound escapes my Lips…

One of...

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A law is oral, 
when it's on moral.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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We’re mostly big and contorted 
From snacks and diets distorted
If you are still thin
You no longer fit in
Small portions our culture's aborted


Author's note: Just got back from the continent.  People are still much leaner there than here.  We need to stop filling ourselves...

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speech and debate team members
competed every week
new schools, new judges, input sought

national finals at Niagara University
eleven hundred contestants 
vying for trophies worth their weight in gold

mix up the meter, don't stress the rhyme
select a "poem" that would be unique
then give it your own tweak

casting Longfellow...

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A tradition rooted in the pain of African chains,
On the auction block, where slaves experienced the insane.
Separated...the strong from the weak...the young from the old,
So that by "The Dozen" these cheap laborers could be sold.
Amongst slaves, this distinction was viewed as a "low blow,"
But was...

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Bathsheba has wandering eyes
For brownies, cake, and apple pies
Her appetite
Is dynamite
The Harem call her, "Thunder Thighs"...

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A French walked into Nigeria with it,
Straight to Rose flower Hotel you can’t quit;
The Man’s Partner: Her Cleanest prostitute
At negotiating prices The Astute
And because he was dying for it ‘shrewd,’ 
Over her cruel price did not dare brood…

Hotel Material and Four Figures high, 
Not caring...

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To speak
               my words
               you need
your
ear
e'en
           ...

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You are a flower for thirsty lips,
your dew drowns.
Flesh parts, opened by 
the caress of teasing clouds.

This oral poetry
smears words into silence.
Breathe through this
muted opening,
lift the hunger of your hips.

Meet me in the dark red bloom,
covet the deeply drinking tongue,
close your unseeing eyes my love

I...

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In days old, oral poetry existed
(When most people, including
the authors of poems,and stories, lyricists,
artists,....couldn't read and write.)
as a part of oral literature
which had no titles,nor were the authors known.
Yet, these are from the heart
captivating the listeners.
It flaws like a river ,
with streams falling into it...

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Words going around and around,
Like in a washing machine,
Only there in my head,
I pluck one out and put it aside,
There's more going around again,
Through the dark tunnel the words continue to spread,
The poem is almost done,
Then I see it .... Yes its done.

Reading it out...

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I'm frozen here
And shall remain
While anaesthetic
Eases pain 

My lips are fat
My tongue just lies
No words untrue
While spittle flies 

A mouth aghast
While tools engage 
And rubber fingers
Squeak outrage

Construction
Of the oral kind
So mastication 
Is refined...

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before script
stories
before their histories
told in rhyme and verse
so early humans
can remember
as they wander
gathering plants
they eat
stories
seek
inspiration of land
of flora and fauna
of the song in the wind
they’ve come to know
of mating
before love
lives metered
shaping realities
of tribal minds...

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