Hey readers,
I did it, I went to Aston uni and performed 3 pieces of my poetry. 2 of them I have on this blog somewhere "to all my women around the world" and "poetry and what it means to me" it was the most nerve wracking and exciting thing I've ever done.
It wasn't my first time performing, the first time was at a small open mic event at my uni during freshers where the audience was 40 or less. But yesterday, dayum... There were so many people. I lost my nerve and forgot the words haha.
To break it down, I knew 2 of my poems of by heart and not the 3rd but when I walked on stage I was literally blinded by the lights, I couldn't see the audience or hear myself properly. So I stuttered and started again but tried to style it out with joking. People seemed to love my other poem called "to the lady in the mirror" that one went really smoothly because I've performed it last time and I tried to be funny in the intro. Because there were guys there aswell I introduced it by saying "It's called to the lady in the miror but if you're a guy obviously it would be to the guy in the mirror" people laughed, which is what I was going for.
Oh and at one stage I couldn't hear myself loud enough, so I paused mid poem and went can you guys hear me. People laughed idk if they were laughing at me or with me but it was both terrifying and fun. Which is why I would definatly perform poetry again.
I was so flattered when I looked at twitter, I though I really messed up, one of my friends thought I was confident and looked like I intended it. Which is great. I finished of my performance with "my poem is never fully perfect, there's always a flaw and I guess in some weird poetic way, it could mean that beauty isn't perfect after all"
Which suited my hiccups ha.
A girl I know came up to me after the event and gave me the nickname of closet poet, which makes me sound like I'm an undercover gay. Spoken word is something I'd deffinately want to do again.
That's all folks,
This post is a week late, I had exams lately so I wasn't really in a writing state of mind. But my exams are done for now :D
Amina :)
