My Piece on her Piece called "#BeQueens"

                                         


The theme this week is insecurities/the idea of getting rid of them or not having them. This piece is about how to not be insecure and to be confident in who you are. Sophia Thakur is a young poet who is performs her poems on YouTube. Her poems are described as something people can relate to and emotional, which I can agree with. This poem specifically is about how women need to embrace themselves and do whatever it is that makes them feel comfortable. The line that stuck with me the best is when she said just because she wears make-up and weave doesn't mean she hates herself because that is a common belief. People think girls who wear make-up are insecure and don't find themselves attractive without it, and although that may be the case with some girls it's not the case with all. She stressing that girls need to be confident in who they are and "be queens" because everyone is royalty. I love this poem because it is uplifting females instead of tearing them down.

My Piece on their Piece called "Let Me See Your Phone"

The theme this week is the idea of insecurities/how to get rid of them. This poem is more about insecurities and the idea of insecurities in relationships being fueled by technology and social media in this generation. This poem was performed at a Brave New Voices festival in 2014. Brave New Voices is an annual festival for youths around the world who write and perform spoken word pieces. These festivals are held in different places every year, this particular semi-final was in D.C. This piece is about how teenagers in relationships have insecurities that are shown through the lack of trust with their significant other and their technologies -- hence, "let me see your phone". They talk about social networks as well and how people will go to no end to find people they think their significant other is talking to or likes. What I found interesting was them talking about how they thought it was official between them because of Instagram posts and bios -- which obviously aren't the things to depend on for trust, I like this piece because I have personally witnessed insecure people do things like this and make big deals out of nothing on social media. This shows insecurities because like they said at the end "you don't need my password to unlock my trust". There should be trust in a relationship without a "let me see your phone" type attitude, to me at least.

My Piece on her Piece called "If I Should Have a Daughter"

This week my theme was the idea of future children or daughters. Sarah Kay is a big inspiration of mine because she does a lot of things I like to do. She is from New York and is considered to be a spoken word poetry teacher along with being a filmmaker and a photographer. In my near future I would like to do all of the things like she does. This poem is about all of the things she will tell her future daughter and how she will raise her. She starts off the poem by saying her daughter will call her point B so she knows that she can always find her. She talks about hows she will tell her daughter how real life is and not tell her it's all rainbows and butterflies and that reminds me of the way I plan to raise my children. I think this poem is so realistic and honest and coming from a woman I find it a lot easier to relate to the things she is saying (I have found that guys find it easier to relate to what Andrew Tyree is saying). My favorite line of this poem is when she says "remember your mama is a worrier and your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more" because it sounds so true and ideal. From this poem she seems like she will make a great mother and will lover her daughter and raise her so well.