Most teens, don't like documentaries or non-fiction anything, so you have to understand how amazing this documentary was that everyone in my class loved it, and we still talk about it on occasion to this day. Looking back on it now, I think I know why the poems that the students wrote and preformed had such an impact on us, it was because it had so much heart. After watching, each individuals' life unfold before our very eyes and then listening to how they interpreted it themselves, was marvelous!
Over the years, I happen to watch a few slam poets on Youtube or currently on Vine, and what I love about each and everyone of them is that they speak the truth. And the truth, is something so rarely heard from the media and etc. that it feels great to know that someone is thinking the same thing as you and has decided to spread the word about it. They do this, not by lecturing you, or yelling or with a long book or movie. They simply, use a few hundred words, their mind, their voice and a whole lot of heart. All together they manage to create something so amazing and tell a tale or teach a lesson that lasts with you longer that any school course ever could.
So here is my introduction, to spoken word poetry and I hope that some of these poets messages have as much as a lasting effect on you as they have had on me. And if not, I hope that they make you at least stop and think.
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