General Guidelines:
•Pick a topic about which you feel strongly. It can be serious or funny, deep or heartwarming, but you should feel personally connected to the topic so that your delivery of it will begenuine.•Your topic should not be something that will offend or hurt any particular person or a group of people. •You should have aclear message about your topic(theme) that you wish to share with the audience. •The slam poemshouldbe memorized and run at least 2 minutes.(Full marks for complete memorization, if not memorized your performance should at least demonstrate that you have rehearsed and do not need to read word for word from your paper).•Both the poem and the performance require considerable and deliberate planning on your end. When writing the poem, you will need to carefully choose words, rhymes, line breaks, and poetry/sound devices to enhance the oral nature of the poem. When planning the performance, you will need to plan for oral delivery (when to pause, when to speed up, when to raise your voice, when to whisper, etc.) as well as facial expressions, gestures, and overall body language.
Questions:Crisis– What’s the moment of tension leading up to your bull’s eye?
Bull’s Eye – How will you hit target and deliver your “punchline”?
My poem (pls help me add rhymes to this poem, thank you):
Thelittle warrior
Have you ever had your life changed in an instant?
One moment everything is fine and then BOOM
Your world shatters
Imagine this
White drape, plain
They call it clean
She’s my friend
She’s in this room everyday
All she wants is a little colour
She was just a little girl you see, only 8
She’s fighting for her life
I remember, the month
She lost her hair to the meds
She lost her smile long for then
Her parents never leave her side afraid that any moment shemight..
But no
They cannot think that way
She’s been there for at least 2 years
She outlasted all the odds
It started as a tumour but moving to her lungs
Fear, anger, shock, sadness, sorrowand all of that everyday
It has taking over
They might not get her back
She finds all day long and uphill battle
No one knows what the outcome will be
Sometimes the toughest soldiers aren’t on the battlefield
They’re right here in the town where you live
While you complain about too much homework or too many restrictions
She’s fighting for her life
While you stare in the mirror wishing you were prettier
She’s losing all her hair and growing paler everyday
While you wishing you were richer or had the latest iPhone
Her parent are spending everything they have and working two jobs to pay for her treatment.
The world doesn’t always revolve around you
Believe me, I’ve learned that the hard way
When you find that one person who you’d be willing to do anything for
Your world revolves around them
This girl is a part of my world
And every night I pray to god she makes it to the next day
It’s not a matter if she will die anymore, it’s when
I get scared, terrified as if it was me the time was slowly escaping from
I would trade places with her in a second if I could
I’ve realized that when you take things for granted
The thing you’ve been granted get taken
It is a flesh eating time destroying monster
It eats until there’s nothing left
But if you fight, if you refuse to lose hope, refuse to give up
There will always be a way