Pages Matam | Looking for Your Voice? A Poetry Slam Champ Shows You How | TEDxZumbroRiver
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Pages Matam delivers a creative and moving talk using his skills as an author, playright and an award winning Poetry Slam champion. He discussing how to "use your voice" to communicate passion in the field of youth, activism and education.
I love the way he kept switching from speech to spoken word so effortlessly
4:06 "a h-a-t-e-r is just a person with their h-e-a-r-t all jumbled up"
just beautiful
He's got poetry in his blood
snake oil is not poetry
@@PerspectiveEngineer what??
You do too...let me think and I promise to do it fast....because you are me and I am you and God is here at last....running through my veins like the drugs in my neighborhood cause so much pain and these tears swell up in my eyes....for there's poetry in you for there is here in I
“I want to grow up to become a cigarette bc that is the only thing my father doesn’t abandon” wow. Feels.
Deep.
An exquisite wordsmith....creating stunning beauty in mind and soul..thank you for giving up medicine😊
I felt that so deeo
The oral fixation did a great thing for him, elevating him to the mountain of the Gods.
Mine gave up the cigarettes and switched to cigar ciggs. Lrq
That's seriously one of my favorite TED talks of all time
I 💕 his speech.
I can't sit through most of them, but I had no problem watching this whole video.
Ditto sis
Possibly the most underrated Ted Talk
My heart is crying, hands applauding, head is nodding and face is smiling right now!! Love this gentleman's message :)
Your heart is crying like hungry children with nothing to eat, head in rhythm like Friday night feet...smile stretched thin like not enough bread...poems inside you keep our mouths fed
This is the best spoken word performance I have ever heard 🤧😩🥲
This is really good slam poetry, proud to be a Cameroonian. Thanks for posting.
This Audience too quiet... I'd have been reacting and stomping, clicking and everything!!!!!! Yesss for this man1!1! Yes Pages!!!!
His name is Pages. And he writes. Wonderfully.!! He is amazing
Thanks
I believe poets are born to slay a verse. A poet's talent comes natural, not commercialized. But that's just me.
listening to this help me gain my poems to a high level instead of hold my words in
III CAN RELATE FAMILY.
This young man is brilliant!
So much metaphor, culture, vibe, spirit. Thank you, Pages, for your art, your journey, and your awareness.
“200 ways to say love” this mans words hold so much strength.
Seamless transitions from what was to what is to what he wishes to come.
I’m an actor, singer, dancer and an author I’ve written several poetry books but…DAMN I loooooove to hear spoken word and I would love to be as great as him 😊
That’s huge respect ✊🏿 Bruh.ZUMBRO SURELY DESERVES I.T.ANCESTORS SPOKE THROUGH GOD.
Good god, this is powerful. One of the best Ted Talks I've ever seen.
“Ain’t much God left in this world , but treat the world like there is plenty God left in you”😩
WOW 😮
That right there... so good. Spoken from the hearth, well done sir. "°"
He is a BEEEAAAST‼💞
I always thought I wrote from the heart; I will release more honesty in my writings after hearing this, thank you TED Talks! and Mr. Matam
'Those that cant show love need it the most'
Wow, wow, wow…. you can feel the appreciation for all of life’s lessons in his tone, you can feel the vibrations that resonate in his bones, and in all the colorful language, you can find healing in his voice alone. Glad I found this. ✊🏿💕🌞
Wow! I am so inspired after watching this. Thank you, Pages Matam!
Thanks god she's alive and well to see that you made it....
She must be a great mother
My Lord, this Pages is the absolute king! This is one of my favorite Ted Talks. The way he weaves and threads words, themes, mores....... Brilliant! Moving! Touching! Teaching! Inspirational! Poignant!
Very eloquent. He never bored a second
Enjoyed your poems. And your unique word choices enhanced the poems emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout.
I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor.
Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary:
Bashō’s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain.
~~
And my tanka:
returning home
from a Jackson Pollock
exhibition
I smear my face with paint
and morph into art
~~
-All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida,
Al
Beautiful
I absolutely love this man's mind
Omg, you had me bawling. “Oh, America, show us your papers!” 😭👏🏻👏🏻
the forked poet capable of many different avenues of the storytelling gene
The best of the best!!! Raw talent! I hear you, bro!
I admire the passion that he shows
The words he sings out loud; and
Tender movements of ten
Fingers - up and down, outwards and above
The tree-leaf sleeves and tree-trunk shoes.
I am.humbled.and grateful to you for this fantastic poem about me.
That is powerful! Incredible! 🤩
Wow. Just Wow. 👏👏👏
What a beautiful soul
Beautiful from beginning to end! Wow
Awesome. Listend to many times. Taught me do much about poetry I strive to embrace.
Wow this is incredible. More people need to see this.
There's so much truth in what he's saying.
This is probably the 100th time I come back to watch this!
how does this only have 2,000 views??
People find other things more interesting nowadays!
The difference a year makes......
because it sucks I'm only here for school
@@seyiadeniji3547 the diff 3 makes it has 73,000 views now
ERA OF THE SLEEP 🛌 WITH THEIR EYES 👀 WIDE-OPEN.
Awesome, I can't stop watching
Stunning artistic performance.
This is absolutely breathtaking and I am soooo happy I heard it
Fantstic style, noticing the gradual shift in between the public speaking and the slam!
simply amazing!
My absolute very poem of all time 💕💕💕
Still one of my favorite poems
He's incredible. I'm blessed to be able to hear and learn from him. Thank you!
"200 dialects. 200 ways to say love, family...."
Thank you. I paused this at 11:07 and wrote the first poem I've written in months. I appreciate the beautiful inspo.
Yaaaas! Snap! Snap! Thank you brother!
This was so immersive I forgot to put it on my tv because I couldn’t stop watching. I’ll watch this often. Absolutely beautiful work and I feel so inspired.
Poetry master. So beautiful
I don’t get tired of this. The more I watch it the more I want to hear it.
"The backwash of a dream" wow this was FIRE
I Love this wow, what a poet, salute.
Wow he’s amazing 🙏🏼🙌
He sure is
this was amazing!!!! so inspiring!!
This was amazing. Thank you for posting/sharing.
Great Poem!
Inspiring...
I wish to be a spoken word artist one of these days.
OMG!! …Loved This! Loved the natural teaching and ministering flow. Powerful message.
wow i admire the strong passion for poetry.
Beautiful spoken word
this is art
OMG this guy is amazing!!!!!!🤩
I am trying to learn how to write a poem . And his speech made me cry.
Now I know exactly what I want in a man.....no hay palabras
👌🏾Simply incredible💯
Thank you Mr Matam!
he was so poetic sometimes that he decided to lighten the mood in fear of swirling the peoples minds
6 years later this is my time to hear this wonderful spoken word...wow
Incredible story.
This deserves way more likes.
It’s really inspirational ❤
This is amazing
This is gorgeous
Just Phenomenal
❤❤❤ thiiiiiiiiisss!!
Wow!!!!!
Aye! He is so good!
Why am I now just hearing of this man but I've heard of all the lil and 6ix 9ine and other rappers/artists?
He was excellent
gorgeous and brilliant and thank you so much
Great!
Those who show you no love are usually the ones who need to see it the most.
“There ain’t much God left in this world but treat this world like there is plenty of God left in you.” Wow.
Amazing ❤
beautiful
Beautiful
This man is amazing with his art 👌🏾💯
Fabulous
Proudly Cameroonian 🙏🙏👌🏽👌🏽
What language do they speak in Cameroon???
Beautiful!!
Great performance 👏👏👏👏
amazing
I love this!