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Welcome to 'This The Thing...' Thursday. Remember this Thursday is about revealing an austere life truth by just describing an experience or a process.

And reflection is a part of that, so here is my reflection on pursuing dreams:

I believe that dreams are real yet I had to modify meams. I went from dreaming to be a basketball player to dreaming about being a freelance expressionist — a lightworker that has created a self-expressionist strategy in marketing, writing, and movement. And as I connect the dots, as I reflect on how basketball is a movement expression, I realize that I am perceiving my dreams still. And I learned that life requires looking at the dream from a different angle, as we bear in mind our inherent purpose. Because as all things fit together, I learn that my childhood dream still holds true.

To me, this song touches on this perspective.

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Do me a favor, world.

Don't worry about me. Do I worry about you and how you feel given your whining and complaining, world?

No.

Do I fret for your security? your well-being? when you don't care about your own security and well-being at your times of emotional display, world?

No, I let you do you, world. I let you mock me whenever you want because I know you can't help it. Why would I worry about you doing you and reminding me about me?

Why would I worry about this twisted harmony? I used to. Shiiiit, boa I used to tremble.

My knees would clack together because I worried that you calling me to speak in front of hundreds of people at the age of 8 was humiliating if not terrifying.

So yea I worried, I was worried because those faces out there didn't have the same Crayola smiles drawn across the faces of my apartment's posterboard characters. As a matter of fact, they had none.

There were just dark figures in the shadow of spotlights that blinded my face. Did you worry about me then, world?

Hell no

You demanded of me. I was the only person on the stage so the focus was on me. The light you shined on me illuminated the fingers in which I used to practice my performance gestures the night before. The silence beckoned me to speak. The encouragements from the crowd — "You can do it!" "It's alright, baby" "Come on, buddy" — were just exclamations of others' expectations and ignorant of the way that my knees were wobbling wildly. Everything was telling me to do something.

You didn't worry about me! Me! ME! And how I felt at that moment! I swear I was on the brink of collapse but you didn't want me to collapse, you wanted me to speak.

So, I spoke.

With no script, with inflection, with my hands, and with sensation - both the worry and dramatic interpretation, and I held on to it like my life depended on it. And in the end, people stood up and clapped. I hurried off the stage — my little ass wanted to get the hell outta there.

But there was a twinge of self-respect. A part of it was how I satisfied the audience and the other part was the power of my voice.

MY Voice and its range of interpretation was my saving grace; is my saving grace. It has led me to torment myself and heal my self. My voice speaks up, speaks out, and speaks in.

Why worry? You never wanted me to worry, world, you have always wanted me to say something. The day you worry about me is the day I leave this Earth; you will worry if the next life I have will be worthy of the magnificent spirit you cultivated. And by that time, I will be in another dimension unable to fully care about your worry.

So don't worry, world. Because you never did in the first place. I will bet my life on my voice and its range of interpretation time and time again.

So, I guess, what I am really saying is, don't worry self.

Given how our organization is based in Chicago, I thought it would be best to bring attention to a Chicago social Group.

Well wishes for the Stop Eviction Avalanche Movement!🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾

Day 2 of our occupation begins. Get down to Daley Plaza at 10.

Hello All,

I have an interesting topic for today's Talk about it Tuesday: Negative Emotion as a way of self-learning.

Does sadness really turn you're perspective dull and/or put you in a gloomy state? Or does it remind you about what your values are?

Are you guilty because of others and yourself? Why? How did you really feel about breaking a rule?

These Questions Got me Like 🤨😭😔😡🤬🤔🤔🙃🙂😁😁😁😁😁💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾

Lol, feel free to comment any comment at all, comment one word or comment emojis

Here is one for Motivation:

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Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone's Monday is going well!

Here is a Little Motivation on this Motivation Monday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqfQXJSvbo4

Björk - Army of Me From the album "Post". Written by Björk, Graham Massey. ® 1995 One Little Indian Records Ltd.

"I don't rejoice in silence, I rejoice in self-expression"

Good Afternoon Y'all!🤗🤗

Welcome to Self-Reflection Sunday! This content day is meant for people to share the life lessons they learned by self-reflecting.

With that said, I, POETS President Daniel Brown, encourage you all to take time out of your Sunday to reflect on how you feel and what you have been through this week. If you want to share what you learned from your reflection with the DePaul POETS Community, message POETS before 3pm. You can also comment on the content post as well.

now, back to " I don't rejoice in silence, I rejoice in self-expression." Not only did I think it would be fitting to share my moment of reflection with the DePaul POETS community because of POETS "Speak Up, Speak Out" theme but also because I believe self-expression contributes to self-understanding; and I don't think that anyone should deny themselves of that.

Whether you express your self-thoughts and feelings inwardly or outwardly, express them strongly. Because your thoughts and feelings matter, and that is always a matter worth rejoicing.

Peace and Love Everyone❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

There was a problem with the livestream. POETS will be viewing the episodes next week.

Again, message POETS if you all have movie and show suggestions for our Saturday night Live.

Good Afternoon POETS.

Lets Go Live for Saturday Live!

There are these two episodes on Gaia that are intriguing to me... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

They are about changing our brainwaves and reprogramming our genes. I believe that knowledge will provide us a deeper understanding of life and will enrich our individual knowledge bases.

That can only benefit us as Spoken-Word artists, or Spoken Word Enthusiasts, right? As always, I'd love to know what you think. Comment your views below.

Anyway, I will be hosting a viewing party of these episodes on this page tonight at 10 pm Eastern Time. I hope that you all will be able to attend.

Bring food, drink and an open mind, if you decide to come. 🤗🤗🤗🤗

As always, anyone can pm me about what they want to watch as a part of our live programming.

Have a good rest of the day.

Apologize for not putting up yesterday's content my dear POETS followers! Yesterday was a struggle, but I am back refreshed. If anyone has content ideas and wants to help message me via DePaul POETS messaging.

Moving Forward....

GOOOD LATE AAAFTERNOON POETSSS VIEWERRRSS! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 I hope the day is going well!

Today, is Flashback Friday, a time for sharing moments in the past. And boy do I have a moment to share.

So, yesterday, I broke my promise to myself to quit smoking w**d. Soon after I took a hit of the blunt, I was consumed with disappointment and guilt. And that started to weigh me down, and make my chest ache.

The beautiful part of me is how movement and laughter is my response to my disappointment and ache. The bad part about it I realized as I spent 45 minutes in the shower dancing, singing, and laughing about my condition versus staying on task, was that embracing the impact of what I did sets me up for true forgiveness. And made me stop finding a different way to cope with the consequence of my action.

So I cried. I cried as I felt disappointment and guilt. And I felt myself ease back into movement as I listed the pros and cons of w**d in my head. And silent awareness was my best friend in that.

I hope this flashback provides you all with a new perspective on how to process your emotions. If you have a flashback to share message POETS, and if you have any comments POETS welcomes it.

"Your words are worthy, speak them, write them and we’ll help you embrace them. Speak Up Speak Out POETS”

Good Morning my DePaul POETS Viewers!

This is Daniel again, and I am wishing you all Positive Vibes and Patience❤️🤗

Today is, There-are-Many-"We's" Wednesdays, and I want to start this content theme by identifying the most important "We" - our individual self.

If you ask me, our individual self is our own take on customs, practices, lineage, environment, experiences, and life. Our individual self processes all of these individual entities and creates a forceful expression. Wow! What Power That Is !! 😮🤩🤤🥴

Haha, I hope y'all send love to your self-community. Attached below is a quote from the poet Nayyirah Waheed and a video by Dr. Bruce Lipton that speak to the magnanimity of the self.

These posts are made for comments, reflections, and/or insights you have. So, I hope to hear from every one of you all's individual communities about this topic in the comments below🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 Peace and Love
❤️❤️
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Hey y'all!

It's Daniel, again, hitting you with Talk About It Tuesday!

I created this Tuesday content because I know sometimes I don't know how to feel, I don't know what's on my mind, and I don't know what to say.

And that the only way I can find out is by describing the emotions, thoughts, and words as they come.

And I hope this content, and future content to come will help you all if you all ever find yourself in that endeavor. Or should I say, rites of passage?🤔🤔🤔🤔

Anyway, with that said, I got a riff for y'all. Comment below opinions, or your own riff, about the complex emotions, thoughts, and words you can only communicate through simply describing:

"This one doesn't have a title,
Although I'm a struggling Christian, this one isn't in reference to the bible.
This is an activation of intuition,
one outside himself and watching the steps on his mission.
I wish people will listen, but that is not for me to decide.
I don't decide the way people internalize.
I don't decide the way my father deals with my actions against his grand-master plan for me.
I don't decide how my mother deals with the stress-induced hair loss.
I just try to breathe.
And exhale a feeling, then thought, or a thought then feeling,
Ugh, brain-heart coherence is an interesting and fandangled thing.
That I have to write about in my delayed Up-Cancer Article.
DON'T SAY IT DEMONS OF THE DARK
Don't you dare attack my mind with notions of me as a failure.
I was up last night putting in work, before I was putting in work, time is relative to me unlocking "my light!"
Uh-huhh, there's the Christian.
"The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak"
These thoughts about materials won't define me.
I have found courage and love, I think. I hope.
I need belief to cope.
Where is my belief? Where is my belief?
Thanks, for the route-change calling-it-for-what-it-is writing.
You're cool.
Onto looking into the profundity of belief for my article.😁
Oh, and F**k Grammarly🖕🖕🖕"

Hello POETS Viewers,

It's Motivational Mondays!

Today, I, POETS President Daniel Brown, have a question that can hopefully spur discussion and provide insight into the Spoken-Word World:

How does the "Spoken-Word" motivate you?

My answer: It motivates me to keep feeling and keep making an effort to be in tune with myself through its simple act of expression.
I was in a conversation with my parents and the way they used the Spoken-Word to articulate their views, made me want to take the time to get in touch with my feelings and articulate what I was saying.

The force of the Spoken-Word is everywhere. So, again, how does the "Spoken-Word" motivate you?

What's Up What's Up DePaul POETS Followers!

This is Daniel, the POETS President, coming at you live from the corner desk in my parent's room. Lol, I feel great and am Lit, writing this post and bopping to "Teammates" by Local Memphis Rapper timothy Gentry on Soundcloud.

From here on out, POETS is not just going to display the beauty and truth of spoken word on its page but also host an inspirational, motivational content campaign and work to get to know and engage its followers.

With that said, hope you can comment below what you doing and how you feel as a part of our theme event Self-Reflection Sunday!

And if you want to check out this rap, I'm bopping to, you can click below.

https://soundcloud.com/tim-gent/teammates-prod-by-sabawoofa

Teammates (prod by Sabawoofa) Can't Ball W/O my Teammates

I really hope y'all have the time to open y'all ears to this man's story, perspective, and rapping abilities - rhyming and wordplay is fire! "I am a walking affirmation, that imagination, and focus and patience get you closer to your aspiration" I'm going to analyze this, this weekend. And check this dude's mixtapes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmQgSpV3fA

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A publication opportunity for any short story writers and poets. You have to submit a collection of short stories and poems though. And you also receive a $1,000 cash reward upon submitting it. Deadline is August 31st

Black Lawrence Press - The St. Lawrence Book Award - Fiction Each year Black Lawrence Press will award the St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length collection of short stories or poems. The winner of this contest will receive book....

Powerful👌

CNN messed up with titling the poem and copying and pasting the poem copy. I believe this poem is called "The Rock, The River, and The Tree"

A favorite line of mine is: "Each new hour holds new chances for new beginnings"

Can anyone of you write your favorite line from this poem, your favorite line from another Maya Angelou poem, or name another Maya Angelou poem that is your favorite below in the comments?

We Love to Speak Up and Speak Out!

https://youtu.be/8ecWterxtq0

Raw: Maya Angelou's poem from Clinton's 1993 inauguration Maya Angelou recites her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's first inauguration on January 20, 1993. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/ To lic...

The beautiful aspect of poetry is its ability to take us somewhere, to take us along for a ride. And I must say, Maya Angelou did exactly that.

There is a Netflix documentary about the life of Maya Angelou poets, and I suggest you all watch it.

Until then, listen to this...
https://youtu.be/UjEfq7wLm7M

Maya Angelou reading her poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" Maya Angelou reads her poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" which she wrote in commemoration of the UN's 50th Anniversary, in 1995. A Brave and Startling Truth...

Hey there! Winter quarter workshops are starting up! Presenters Of Enlightenment Through Spoken-word (POETS) will be meeting on Mondays from 6-7pm in room 380 on the third floor of DePaul's Lincoln Park Student Center. All you'll need are a pencil and paper and a desire to get creative. Spread the word around DePaul, too! We're always open to new faces and new creative expression. Hope to see you there!

"Your words are worthy; speak them, write them, and we'll help you embrace them. Speak Up, Speak Out, POETS."

Hello DePaul Followers! We're starting back up at DePaul again this year, and it would be great if you all could post about: How does poetry or creative writing help you hear your Voice? If you prefer not, dope, check out what other people write about the prompt instead!

POETS Tabling was a success!! We met sooooo many new creative people and we’re extremely excited to get to know everyone and get inspired! Whether it be poetry, spoken word, rapping, creative writing, etc. we’re ready to provide you with a positive & encouraging creative environment. No prior writing experience necessary.

Our first meeting will be Wednesday, November 6th from 6:30-7:30pm in the Student Center Room 316. All you’ll need is a paper & pen followed by an open mind. We hope to see you all there!

“Your words are worthy; speak them, write them, and we’ll help you embrace them. Speak Up, Speak Out POETS!”

1 More Day Until the Revealing Event. Come to our Open Mic!! Light Refreshments will be there!

A week from today we have our final performance. We welcome you DePaul and Chicago to tell us your truth. The first half will be our club members preforming their pieces, and the second will be an open mic.

A single post-it flew from its nest
Dear, dearly departed Post-It
You will be missed.
No time to pick you up
I swim with the flow and if I squander even a “second” to put you first
and my priorities second
I’ll be on my own and not know where to go.
I’m sure you already know.
Because you landed right near dudes feet.
And he wouldn’t waste a beat to give you back home to me.
I won’t pick you up post it because you must learn a lesson.
You rely on built relationships before you seek protection.
Cuz in time you will become brittle and shriveled. Covered in grime....
Be mindful of your hearth and your ancestry before you depart Post It, please...
Because my dear Post It, you are truly a reflection of me😔😔😔

First meeting of the quarter is tomorrow night starting at 6pm room 313 of the Lincoln Park Student Center. Everyone is welcome to join us!

Tonight! come out and have fun by listen and/or preforming.

Join us on the 15th for an open mic at LPSC 7-8:30pm! Bring friends and listen to some poetry.

Join us on the 15th for an open mic at LPSC 7-8:30pm! Bring friends and listen to some poetry.

I turned my head at the mention of the busy body slogan “ I won’t rest until I’m dead”
I peaked interest,
At the ones sole interest for bustling energy and life.
Why fall asleep because of this deterrent of strife that makes you unable to reap the opportunities so ripe?

Come join us on Fridays from 6-7:30! Bring friends and come in at any time in the year. Everyone is welcome