Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161119192054/@comment-25396609-20170211061652

And yet it comes across as about as soulful as a piece of styrofoam.

A spoken word has emotion.

You wanna see a poem with passion and emotion?

My great grandma is a poet who has been writing for over half a century, she has been published several times in small local printings and i think had a few full books published.

A poem, a song, whatever, is written with a level of heart, you don't just throw it together in the span of a few moments. you sit down and take time to pour your heart into it.

Doing it well, and doing it repeatedly, takes a certain spark not everyone is born with; it can be learned or ignited by personal experience, but it still takes time and dedication. You have potential for greatness, everyone does, but you don't put enough heart in. you throw words together in a way that tangentially reflect what you have seen happen without delving into the deeper soul, the motivation, behind the things they do.