I Wanna Hear a Poem - Steve Colman, 1998 Slam Champion



I Wanna Hear a Poem - Steve Colman, 1998 Slam Champion

I wanna hear a poem

I wanna learn something I didn’t know

I wanna say "yes" at the end, because I'm sick of saying "so?"

I wanna hear a poem about who you are

And what you think

And why you slam

Not a poem about me and my poem

Because I know who I am

I wanna hear a love poem

A sad poem

An "I hate my dad" poem

A dream poem

An "I'm not what I seem" poem

An "I need" poem

An "I also bleed" poem

An "I'm alone" poem

An "I can't find my home" poem

I just wanna hear a poem

I wanna hear a poem about revolution

About fists raised high

And hips twisting in a rumble like a rumba

I wanna follow the footsteps of Chè

And hear the truth about the days of CIA killed the mumba

I wanna hear a poem about struggle

So that when I open my mouth, I can step outside myself

I wanna listen to no less than the sounds of protest

In the factories where workers sweat and make Air Jordans and Pro-Keds because

If you wanna take shots at people

Target Phil Knight and Bill Gates

Contemplate how

They own the products

And they got the goods

How they act like they care

But they're just Robin Hoods

I wanna hear a poem where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jealous

Where the subject matters so much that adjectives start holding pro-noun rallies at city hall

Because I wanna hear a poem that attacks the status quo

That attracts the claps of the cats with the fattest flows

That makes the crowd pass the hat

And pack my cap with a stack of dough

I wanna hear a poem that makes this audience yell “hoooo!” (hoooo!)

Because I wanna guess your favorite color

Then craft rhyme schemes out of thin air

I wanna hear a poem about why the statute of limitations for rape is only five years

I wanna hear a poem

I wanna feel a poem

I wanna taste a poem

Give me your spot on the mic if you wanna waste a poem

I wanna

Hear

A poem

Love Like by Shihan

I want a love like me thinking of you thinking of me

thinking of you type love,

or me telling my friends more than I've ever admitted to

myself about how I feel about you type love,

or hating how jealous you are, but loving how much you

want me all to your self type love,

or seeing how your first name just sounds so good next to my last name,

and s**t, I wanted to see how far I could get without

calling you, and I barely made it out of my garage.

See, I want a love that makes me wait until she falls

asleep then wonder if she dreaming about us being in love

type love,

or who loves the other more,

or what she's doing at this exact moment,

or slow dancing in the middle of our apartment to the

music of our hearts, closing my eyes and imagining how a love like this could just hurt so much when she's not there.

S**t, I love not knowing where this love is headed type love.

And check this, I want to place those little post-it notes

all around the house so she never forgets how much I love her type love then not have enough ink in my pen to write

all there is to love about her type love.

Hope that I make her feel as good as she makes me feel,I want her to distract me form whatever I'm doing type love

and I want to deal with my friends making fun of me the

way I made fun of them when they went through the same kind of love type love.

Only difference is this is one of those real love type loves.

and just like in high school, I want to spend hours on the phone with her not saying anything,

then fall asleep then wake up with HER right next to me,

and smell her all up in my covers type love

I want to try to counting the ways I love her, and then

lose count in the middle just so that I have to start all

over again type love

I want to celebrate one of those month anniversaries even

though they ain't really anniversaries, but doin' it just

cause it makes her happy type love.

And I want to break down the time we spend together into seconds just so it sounds like we spend more time together type love

And check this, I want fall in love with the melody the

phone plays when her number is dialed into it type loves

and then talk to her until I lose my breathe, she leaves me breathless, but with the expanding of my lungs I inhale all of her back into me

I want a love that makes me need to change my cell phone calling plan to something that allows me to talk to her longer

because, in all honesty, I want to avoid one of them high cell phone bill type loves.

I want a love that makes me regret how small my hands are

I mean the lines on my palms don't give me enough time to love her as long as I'd like to type loves,

and I want a love that makes me st-st-st-st-stutter just thinking

about how strong this love is type love.

I want a love that makes me want to cut off all my hair

Well, maybe not all of the hair

maybe just cut the split ends and trim my mustache, but

it will still be a symbol of how strong my love is for her.

And check this, I kinda feel comfortable now, so I can tell y'all this I even be fantasizing about walking out on a green light just dying to get hit by a car just so I could lose my memory

get transported to some third world country just to get treated then somehow meet up again with you so that I could fall in love with you in a different language to see if it still feels the same type love.

I want a love that's as unexplainable as she is, but I'm married, so she is going to be the one that I share this love with.

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