Student Drops Knowledge on Crowd During Spoken Word
Tanisha Williams
Issue date: 12/15/07 Section: News
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Spoken Word is an act that allows poets, lyricists, and other writers to recite their creative work, by speaking rather than singing. Beral, 20, adopted the unique name "Fire", which stands for Flowetry-In- Response-To-Everything. He performed 13 meaningful poems which were a reflection of his life.
"My life influences me to write poetry," stated Beral. "I see what is going on around me and I take note"
As he performs, each poem illustrates a true story about his past experiences that pertains to topics such as religion, love, manhood, hardships and relationships.
Each poem conveys a message in which he hopes that people will open their minds and not be too timid to think.
"I want people to listen, comprehend my poetry, and use it in their own lives," he explains. "I feel as though my poems are all life lessons."
He begins the show by performing four poems, in which expresses love towards a friend and the idea that people who are "just" friends should remain that way because they may not be able to handle being significant lovers.
"Pretty Pretty", a poem that deals with relationships, is about a female who is being mistreated by her boyfriend. As the story in the poem unfolds, it reveals that Beral in fact was the boyfriend who mistreated his girlfriend and feels deeply sorry for his wrong doing.
One part of the poem states- "Pretty Pretty had a gansta' appetite/she wanted to be treated wrong/guess cuz she never been treated right."
He also performed a mixture of poems expressing a rollercoaster of emotions that dealt with his high school experiences, and one particular situation the loss of the friendship. In the poem titled, "Friends No More," he expressed the pain that he felt when his "best friend" was no longer his "best friend".
A line from the poem- "And this poem isn't to diss ya/wouldn't want the beef or the danger/just tryna explain when my best friend became a perfect stranger"
He finishes the performance by reciting three of the most powerful poems. The first poem titled," The Strongest Woman I Ever Met," a poem dedicated to his mother; the second, titled, "Sit Back and Think," about the views of society and the warnings and caution signs that everyone should acknowledge when bringing a new life into the world," and finally a poem titled, "Death", which was a poem that revealed his religious views.
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