Daily Verbal Communication: Poetry

In the past two days, I've attended back to back poetry events with my some of my friends. I love attending these events because you get to meet others in the art community, theres so much love and support, and its fun and affordable. This past Thursday, I attended Rhythm and Rhyme, an art, music, and poetry event created by my friend Princess Pizo(she has a beautiful singing voice), held at a local bar/lounge called "4Play" in Aiea. She asked me to be on the line-up, of course I said "yes!" lol. I performed my recent piece called "Pearl". Other poets, singers, bands, and rappers performed as well, everyone was amazing. The night and early morning was filled with talent, artistic bonding, and hilarious moments(my homeboy Thai and I could not stop cracking up lol).

Yesturday, my friend Lisa and I went to the Youth Speaks Hawaii Slam held at Farrington High School in Kalihi. Sterling Higa hosted this event, a poetry competition between local high schools. Some featured guest poets were featured in between as well. We came to support the youth, its important to support the next rising brave voices. We had such a good time. After the show we bought Youth Speaks Hawai'i legend books, which features some poems from the team members, champions, and mentors. I read half so far, I love all the poems, the pieces are all inspiring! I encourage all of you to go out there and find poetry events to attend, in some places it may be underground, but they are out there, you just have to research and find them. Once you find these treasure spots, volunteer to share by stepping up to the mic, or sit back and enjoy the artistic showcase.

    Photo taken by Thai, performing my recent piece "Pearl"

Encouraging you all to get inspired through art,
Deanna