SPOKENWORDPOETRY

is about to take over the world.
Just come back from Manchester where WordCup Final 2010 was being hosted.

http://www.applesandsnakes.org/page/66/Home/214

Wow. Is all I can say.
Kids aged 13-16 getting on stage and performing spoken word poetry to a substantial audience.
Some of the lines they had written...mind blowing.
I was definitely inspired.
The subjects they were dealing with too; politics, injustice. Big stuff for little people. So impressive.
One of my favourite lines - one boy from the west midlands saying how he thought war was pointless.
"Why we usin bullets when we should be usin ink?"
Jeeez. Crowd went MENTAL.

Haha. And it was nice, having performed the night before, just to enjoy the next generation speaking their minds with such eloquence and maturity.
I was just soaking it up I tell ya.

And afterwards I started writing, and I couldn't stop.
Next blogpost - rough draft of my longest poem ever ha.