How to write spoken poetry.

How to write spoken poetry

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 ​How to write spoken poetry

 Spoken word poetry is a word-based performing art in which presenters engage in powerful self-expression by sharing their views on a particular topic for a live audience with an emphasis on sound and presentation. Speaking performances require memorization, performative body language, pronunciation, and eye contact with the viewer.

Oral poetry is a form that does not require rhyme, but certain parts can be rhymed to accentuate the image or give it a lyrical quality.

 Here are some tips for writing this passionate oral form:

1. Choose a topic you are passionate about in your experience. Speech acting is full of emotion, so before you start writing, ensure that the issue you're dealing with feels strong or can trigger a lot of emotion.

2. Create a gateway line. The gateway line is like a city topic. 

3. Focus on sensory details. You want your audience to be right in the scene you're making verbally for them, and the best way to do this is to write vividly. You write what your audience wants to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell in your entire work and use literary devices such as metaphors and similes to make comparisons. You're not memorizing poems to read back to people but trying to immerse them in your world, even for a moment.

4. Use repetition and puns. By repeating specific lines or words in your work, you can emphasize an image or idea to your audience.

5. Make a good sound. Since spoken poetry is written to be read aloud, how the poem sounds are just as important as the content of the text.

6. Pause your poem for a while and then revise it. Sometimes, when you get caught up in the passion of writing, you realize that you can speak better.

7. Watch others perform. You can get a better feel for the rhythm, structure, and cadence by listening to experienced spoken artists do it.
8. End with an image. A conclusion should end the story for the audience or leave a lingering thought or feeling.r

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