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The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 145,782 ratings — published 2018
Black Coffee Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,367 ratings — published 1992
Let Them Eat Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,372 ratings — published 2016
Take Me With You (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,522 ratings — published 2018
SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.81 — 160 ratings — published 2020
Running Upon the Wires: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,160 ratings — published 2018
Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.94 — 117 ratings — published 2009
Hold Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,075 ratings — published 2014
Brave New Voices: The YOUTH SPEAKS Guide to Teaching Spoken Word Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.06 — 32 ratings — published 2001
Eric The Pilot (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.23 — 31 ratings — published 1999
Alligator Pie and Other Poems (LP record)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Gravidity and Parity (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
You Better Be Lightning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.65 — 10,541 ratings — published 2021
Pansy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,458 ratings — published 2015
Talk is Cheap: Volume 3 (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published 2004
Nights Behind the Tree Line (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published
Everything (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.09 — 81 ratings — published 1996
Sweatbox (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 1989
Don’t Keep Me Close Just in Case: Poems for the Ones Who Stayed Too Long, Loved Too Hard, and Finally Chose Themselves. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Spreading the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 1995
The Holy Bible New Living Translation Old And New Testaments: 2022 Edition (NLT)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.97 — 86 ratings — published
A Silver Memory: Verses for the Soul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Contemporary North American Poetry)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 2014
My Little Poem Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.55 — 34,478 ratings — published 2017
Inslä vom Glück (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published 2009
Polifon Pervers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.42 — 48 ratings — published
Dirty Hands, Broken Ribs, & Other Places My Heart Has Lived: Poems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.33 — 72 ratings — published 2020
Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 153)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2011
I Fall Apart: A Love Story in Verse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.69 — 112 ratings — published 2018
Born to Love, Cursed to Feel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,307 ratings — published 2016
This Is Me Letting You Go (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,085 ratings — published 2016
Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself: growing up is a wonderful thing to do (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.09 — 150 ratings — published
Scorpio Rising (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2024
Talk is Cheap: Volume 4 (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.55 — 20 ratings — published 2004
Talk is Cheap: Volume 2 (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.54 — 28 ratings — published 2003
Think Tank (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.26 — 35 ratings — published 1998
Talk is Cheap: Volume 1 (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.34 — 29 ratings — published 2003
The Boxed Life (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.42 — 52 ratings — published 1993
Live at Westbeth Theatre (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.57 — 30 ratings — published 2001
Rollins in the Wry (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.39 — 67 ratings — published 2001
Live @ McCabe's (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.17 — 24 ratings — published 1990
Essential Vonnegut (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.97 — 215 ratings — published 2006
I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.32 — 114 ratings — published
Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.77 — 140 ratings — published
What the Moon Gave Her (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.60 — 447 ratings — published 2022
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,834 ratings — published 1977
I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)
by (shelved 1 time as spoken-word)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,569 ratings — published 2020
“منتظراً، مثلكِ، وعداً من خلف البحرِ
ومنهمراً مثل الأمطارِ على بيروتَ،
وأقنعُ نفسي ألا ضير بقفزٍ من سطح الغيم إلى بئر الحب..
وأكتبُ: في موت القطراتِ حياةْ
كالموجِ أميلُ يساراً جهةَ القلبِ، أفكرُ أين سأصبح بعد كتابين من الآن،
أصوّرُ نفسي حتى لا أتصوّرُ نفسي من غير يديك وأحلمُ بالآتْ...
ضوءُ نهارٍ آخرَ فوق الشاطئ ماتْ
تنكسرُ على قدم المقهى أحلامُ البحرِ وأمواجُ العاشرِ من آذار... كما تنكسر على شفتي الكلماتْ
في آخرِ سطرٍ في دفتر هذي الليلةِ أكتبُ:
كفّاكِ سفينةُ نوحٍ...
صدركِ: ذهبُ الله الأبيضُ..
قلبكِ: كبريتٌ يشتعلُ جمالاً وطموحْ
شفتاكِ: عناقيدٌ تحلمُ أن تُعتصرَ نبيذاَ أبدياً...
وتُعتّق في خابيةِ الروحْ
هل قلتُ يداكِ سفينةُ نوحٍ..
نسيتُ التوضيح:
حياتي نوحْ...”
―
ومنهمراً مثل الأمطارِ على بيروتَ،
وأقنعُ نفسي ألا ضير بقفزٍ من سطح الغيم إلى بئر الحب..
وأكتبُ: في موت القطراتِ حياةْ
كالموجِ أميلُ يساراً جهةَ القلبِ، أفكرُ أين سأصبح بعد كتابين من الآن،
أصوّرُ نفسي حتى لا أتصوّرُ نفسي من غير يديك وأحلمُ بالآتْ...
ضوءُ نهارٍ آخرَ فوق الشاطئ ماتْ
تنكسرُ على قدم المقهى أحلامُ البحرِ وأمواجُ العاشرِ من آذار... كما تنكسر على شفتي الكلماتْ
في آخرِ سطرٍ في دفتر هذي الليلةِ أكتبُ:
كفّاكِ سفينةُ نوحٍ...
صدركِ: ذهبُ الله الأبيضُ..
قلبكِ: كبريتٌ يشتعلُ جمالاً وطموحْ
شفتاكِ: عناقيدٌ تحلمُ أن تُعتصرَ نبيذاَ أبدياً...
وتُعتّق في خابيةِ الروحْ
هل قلتُ يداكِ سفينةُ نوحٍ..
نسيتُ التوضيح:
حياتي نوحْ...”
―
“في حضنها كن ندى.. كن غيمةً... مطرا
واغمض يديك على نيرانها لترى
لن تفهم الحب، حاول إن وقعت به
أن تفهم الفأس لا أن تفهم الشجرا...
ولا تفكّر كثيراً، دع غداً لغدٍ
كن عاشقاً، أجمل الأغصان ما انكسرا
خف من بقائكما لا من رحيلكما
لن تحبس الريح مهما تحبس الوترا
لا ورد يملك عطراً، وهو يسكنه
والليل مهما سرى لن يملك القمرا
دعها تحبك... دعها أن تحب... غداً
يبقى من العمر... حبّ كان... وانتثرا...”
―
واغمض يديك على نيرانها لترى
لن تفهم الحب، حاول إن وقعت به
أن تفهم الفأس لا أن تفهم الشجرا...
ولا تفكّر كثيراً، دع غداً لغدٍ
كن عاشقاً، أجمل الأغصان ما انكسرا
خف من بقائكما لا من رحيلكما
لن تحبس الريح مهما تحبس الوترا
لا ورد يملك عطراً، وهو يسكنه
والليل مهما سرى لن يملك القمرا
دعها تحبك... دعها أن تحب... غداً
يبقى من العمر... حبّ كان... وانتثرا...”
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