Spoken Word Poems | Examples of Spoken Word Poetry

Do what you like or want But don't go beyond your limits Don't bite more than you can chew Don't ride on another Because you got the powers God take vengeance, good always prevail. Use what you have...Read the rest...

BROKEN My heart in pain for broken it is: The keeper of my heart left it's gate and eloped with it's key The pain in my heart not so plain It drained my sobs and tears Couldn't scream Couldn't shout Couldn't Smile Couldn't...Read the rest...

“Stage Fright” Where are my lights? My camera? My action? It's not supposed to be like this! I trained long enough for the stage, for stardom. I know I did. I just know what I did. I was surrounded by the actors and stars. I...Read the rest...

Life is.... Life is to live, To make something of ourselves if we can. Then to relinquish it all to the past. As to live is also to die. ...Read the rest...

Without my partner, our kids, mates, and family, I'd be lost, adrift, no direction. Literally up the creek without a paddle. What would I do? How would we navigate alone? So many wrong choices we'd inevitably make. No advice to steer...Read the rest...

I love you he said I love you so much I'm never letting go You can't share a love you haven't given to yourself yet So, I dug up the dead pieces of my heart and replanted...Read the rest...

If i could just save one life.... If the words you write can light just one flame, Ignite the night, end someone's pain. We each have one arrow, life’s bow to string, Whatever life aims, let your heart sing. Take me, for...Read the rest...

323 years later, I fell into his tasteful melody with those jaw-dropping harmonies that take me to the prettiest places when I fall into real dark places. It’s so unusual how he’s the only one...Read the rest...

I know I’m dying, we all are, that’s life’s game, But mine’s sped up by cancer, it’s not the same. Don’t worry, Liz, everything’s gonna be alright, See, I’ll be here ‘til I’m 85, or until my last goodnight. Set your worry shackles free, believe in what’s...Read the rest...

Same people Different cultures Different beliefs Same nationality Different religions Different awareness Different state of reasoning. One people Different languages One earth Different continent One Sun Different deity One nationality Different agendas. Nobody wanna be inferior Everybody wanna be superior Nobody wanna...Read the rest...

Now this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine... until I'm down by the river. As I wait for the good Lord... to pass my way. And even tho I have many rivers...Read the rest...

There is a tenderness in hard work, a calling not easily dismissed, and I sense you feel this deeply. -- You’ve taken an oath, a promise to remain steady amidst the currents that swell around you....Read the rest...

In land of light, where spires rise high, We speak of love yet let it die, For quiet faith and tender creeds Are strangled by our selfish needs. We drape ourselves in robes of white, Yet shadows thicken, day and...Read the rest...

Waves The waves in her hair Bounces up and down If only about herself she could care Her mouth twists to a frown When I praise her As if down the road She’ll miss me When I ask her how she’s...Read the rest...

As the darkness fades, and the first light of dawn creeps over the horizon, a new day is born. For many, 5am is just another hour, a time to sleep in, to dream, to escape reality....Read the rest...