Slam Poetry Dare to Create
[Music]
hello everyone i’m seoul huang and today
i’m going to be talking to you about
slam poetry
a creative outlet for students
we’re more focused on school and sports
and for you parents
you’re more focused on family and work
sometimes you’ll feel like there’s no
time left for
extra creative activities and i
understand because only 25
of us actually feel like we have
achieved our creative potentials
making time to be creative is essential
dr michelle who’s a psychology professor
in the states says that
having a creative outlet allows us to
feel more refreshed
productive and also increases our
happiness
and gives us a sense of purpose
you can also come up with new ways to
solve a problem
and it also gives you inspirations to a
lot of more things
you can also carry the personal
accomplishments that you feel in your
creative outlet to your workplaces
it boosts your self-confidence and makes
you feel more refreshed in general
moreover these are just some of the
reasons why people are more
successful nowadays because they have a
creative outlet
an outlet is where you can express
yourself in a creative way
whether it’s writing a poem or making
art
photography the list goes on and on
there are so many options that you can
choose from
for me i chose sound poetry
some poetry was just an idea that i
admired
i would see some ideas on youtube and
i’ll watch them sometimes but it was
never more than that
then soon it turned into an interest
when i
started to write poems in my english
classes i also got in contact with
assigned poet when i was in grade 7.
then it turned into a project when i
came into grade 10
is it was a time for us to start a
personal project and i remembered
some poetry fit very well because i
admired them
i admired sign poetry and i was very
interested in it
and that’s how my journey started
after finishing my project in a very
successful note i realized that slam
poetry
became more than just a project to me it
became an
outlet a method for me to express
whatever that was going on in my life
and now i am proud to say that sound
poetry is a creative outlet for me
i am a person who turns who tends to
stress out a lot and overcompensate and
when i’m in my life and i when i stress
out
over academics sports social life
i need an outlet so i can balance
everything together
before i discovered some poetry sports
was
my creative outlet in a way but then i
realized that sports
was the stressor this was the main
stressor
so so i
messed on poetry and i fell in love with
it and when i’m lost in writing
my poem all of my problems in my life
kind of just disappear and i focus on
writing the poem itself
and sometimes this is the outlet i need
to kind of distract myself from reality
and just focus on writing the poem you
know
and other people do this too
this person um uses quilting
as a creative outlet she co
she organizes these complicated patterns
and sews them and
in a way of organizing her complicated
thoughts and this is how she balance her
life
and these are just some of the artworks
that she created over
a long period of time
in the early years of microsoft
co-founder paul allen used to play
guitar after an
endless day of coding he said it forces
me to look beyond what currently exists
and express myself in a new way people
with unique outlets are more likely to
come up with new solutions to work
related problems
and if you’re looking for inspiration
try doing something that you really
enjoy to unwind
founder um the founder apple steve jobs
dropped out of reed college just to
stick around to study calligraphy
and this is some of the reasons why
apple products are more distinctive than
other
electronic products you can learn to use
outside skills to apply
to actual situation in work or school
my journey with slam poetry was a
challenge
after finishing my project i realized
how this had an impact on my life
sound protein was a new method for me to
express my experiences
emotions and feelings it also helped me
to become more creatively active and
challenge myself with new goals
it made me feel accomplished and also
relieved a lot of stress
even during my project and after writing
my poems
it truly felt like a challenge
accomplished when a poem on a word
document that took hours to perfect
turn into a successful assembly
performance
i do not think any words can describe
the feeling of accomplishing something
that i felt impossible
the challenges that you face in your
life is what makes your life worthwhile
and in my opinion challenging myself and
thriving
is what makes my life fun and marvelous
by setting new challenges you’re
constantly developing and
enlightening yourselves with ideas and
creativity
and honestly you should try it out too
experience excitement when you’re doing
something you enjoy
experience the happiness when you’re
doing something you love
i promise it’ll be a worthy journey
start your journey now with a creative
outlet of your own
and now i will perform one of my most
proudest poems i wrote
it is called the seed
a seed is a symbol of growth
they’re connecting water and sun to
become more
than a small peck a seed goes through
days after days of growth to show their
true colors when they grow
they contain a signature a
characteristic
or a personality that potentially become
a tree a flower a fruit
or vegetables every single one of them
has an origin and meaning
we are just like a seed
we’re connecting in the world to become
more than an
unknown we go through years after years
of growth to show our true colors when
we grow
we contain a signature a characteristic
or a personality that potentially become
a shop owner entrepreneurs engineers an
endless list of potential persona
or character but
character is not shown through jobs
character
is not shown through a name card
character is not shown through a title
character is not shown through a
paycheck
character is shown through all the
weeding you have to go through
character is shown through all the trims
and cuts you have to endure
character is shown through all the roots
you spread out over
the years character is shown through all
the battle wounds
that your body contain scars
are warrior marks the scabs will heal
but the scars will stay the scars
it will ache from time to time from the
wind crashing on you or the water that
the society sprinkles on you
whether it’s water with nutrition or
poison the scars
they will sting with regret the scars
they will sing
with misery the scars they will sting
with grief but
we will still grow the scars will ache
from time to time
and they will open sometimes but you
have to close them
with love and time
we will fight in our life
throughout the spring breeze and when we
arrive at the last day of fall
we will feel the cold air starts to glow
we will fight
in the blizzard for the spring breeze
but sometimes
a sea remaining is what we receive
to receive battle wounds to heal scabs
to leave a peck to become the known
thank you for listening