Sarah Kay reads "Titanic"
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2020
- Sarah Kay reads Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie's poem, "On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart"
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Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie:
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I like how she reads from her journal in her own handwriting and is so enthusiastic about this poem, revisiting it several times a year. I am glad I am not alone in being poem-haunted. This gives me hope.
Big fan of those who are big fans of poems! - Paige
"Poem-haunted," sounds amazing.
@@sntjana9348 Edgar Allen Poe coming out of his study, raven: "you're done early", EAP: "poem's haunted", raven: "what", EAP, cocking 19th century musket, getting back in his writing room, "poem's haunted"
This kind of poem is so comforting in the way it's written. You don't have to study to figure out what everything represents and means. The poem explains itself in a way that you feel it deeper and deeper in your gut as it goes on.
This is a great expression of how I feel about this poem as well.
"Call it unsinkable, though it is sinkable. Embark, embark."
"I was in that feeling sorry for yourself state where every hallway is the hallway of your own wretched mind.." Brilliant
"I don't know", said Titanic. "I'm kind of a wreck."
Wow.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"I'm here to apprentice myself to wreckage" will stick with me.
And Sarah really did! Her first book is called "No Matter the Wreckage" and I've always wondered why she named it that. Now I know :)
"Well then be a writer". I think the Titanic just inspired me to become a writer.
Me: *is almost moved to tears by the poem*
Also me: *snorts at words 'ballrooms in you'*
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nooo you ruined it for me man ;-;
@@j3891 Sorry! I didn't mean to!!!
I keep coming back to this poem.
I had forgotten this poem. I'm so glad I stumbled backed here
this poem has almost single handedly mended every broken heart ive had so far.
Oh, this one hit me hard. “There are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you’ll ever love.” I too think this will be a poem I come back to again.
Eeeeeeeeerrkkkkk! is now my favorite quote from any poem
"Tell me did you see the iceberg coming?"
"I did." Titanic said
"And you sailed right into it?"
"It was love..." Titanic said
"there are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you will ever loved"
This line stand out for me🙌
I often revisit Sarah's poems. A couple time a year I'll revisit my favorites: "If I Should Have A Daughter", "Useless Bay", and most often visiting "The Type". Sarah's poems give me hope. It was so wonderful to hear her read her favorite poem. I will repeat these beautiful new words to my heart "I have enough ballrooms".
It finally happened. I saw a poem that wrenched open my heart and I feel so many emotions without being able to distill every single one.
Really grateful to this channel for letting me find this gem ❤️
Loved every second of it. May I recommend the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T. Coleridge? It's the poem I revisit at least twice a year.
A wonderful poem! I also really love Tiana Clark's "The Rime of Nina Simone" (www.southerncultures.org/article/the-rime-of-nina-simone/). - Paige
@@ourspoetica I'll check it out
"Did you see the iceberg coming?" Fantastic! I love it that these poems come at a time when I'm just unwinding before needing to go to bed.
Revisiting this because it answers to some of the events in my life right now, completely different from the ones it answered to the first time I heard it. It's comforting how a single poem seems to change and evolve with me
See how Sarah’s handwriting changes with the rhythm of her reading... 💕
I come back to this poem over and over and over again. I can't get enough
I really really hope they'll feature Phil Kaye on Ours Poetica too...
Sarah Kay is my favourite
I'm back here again, rewatching for the 5th time
a beautiful poem, and beautifully read
"Nonsense all the way down" gives me distinct John Green vibes. *sigh* I spend too much time engaging with nerdfighteria content, don't I?
...Distractions of my literary imagination aside, I really love this poem.
"Call it unsinkable, though it is sinkable.
Embark, embark
There are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you'll ever love."
This is such a beautiful sentiment, probably my favourite part of the poem. The contrast between "there are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you'll ever love" and it's earlier companion, "there are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone I've ever loved" is so striking. That is the reality of hope and heartbreak: you cannot go back to who you lost - but you can always learn to love anew.
Ha! I thought of John as well.
What! A POEM!. You know when you find a specific poem, that makes you rediscover and love poetry like the first time all over again. This is one of them for me.
"But you arent made of metal!" Titanic said,
"Im a writer, I can be anything." I said.
"Then be a writer." Titanic said
WOW.
I really love the imagery in this poem and the sense of place it gives. It’s prose-y and I like that.
Staying with this channel is opening my heart to poems that are like labyrinths and poems that wittingly leave me hanging and poems that I'll understand in twenty years or maybe never.
But when a poem puts aside the scalpel and opts instead to practice open heart surgery with the cleaver, you best believe I'm split in two.
I first discovered this poem because Sarah Kay mentioned it in Poetry Rx and I’ve thought about it so much since and then I stumbled across this video over a year later! It’s like a dream come true.
"there are enough ballrooms in you" aaaaaahaaa 😭😭 I wasn't quite ready to sob today lol
I don't float like I used to, but my daughter is buoyant bone dry. She still lets me hold the string, though.
I've watched this video so many times now I read the poem aloud along with her. It's just so beautiful, I can't get over it.
I have a similar feeling about Dreaming boy by Sarah Kay. I re-visit it for inspiration, for joy, for love, for loss and for hope and I cry every time.
I have listened to Sarah Kay read this poem over and over again. It makes me calm. It also inspired me to write my own poem.
Here is my poem. It is written in Afrikaans my home language (I am from South Africa)
Die Titanic het gesê
Ek vermoed jou taksie lig is af
Dit keer my nie
Ek wil in klim
Ons kan in die geparkeer kar bly sit
Ek wil jou in en om my voel
Al is dit net vir n rukkie
Die Titanic het gesê ek kan maar sink;
ek het longe wat my sal help om weer op te kom
Die Titanic het gesê ek kan maar danse al is dit net vir n tydtjie,
Die dans saal is groot genoeg
Ek wil dit alles vir jou sê
Die vraag nou is
Gaan ek...
"The trouble with you humans is that you are so concerned with staying afloat. Go ahead, be gouged open by love."
Amazing! I think I'll be rewatching this video many a time.
Thank you so much for bringing Sarah back. Her reading of her own work or any work is so enthralling! I felt that down to the pit of my stomach.
Titanic has puns. "I don't know. I'm kind of a wreck." xDDDD
I'm a huge fan of Sarah's work (I have her book!) and this poem was an amazing choice- Thank you for this excellent video!
Oh! I read something by Sarah several years ago, where she mentioned this poem. And I found a live reading of it by Brown-Lavoie, and it is WONDERFUL in that performance (too I should say, because Sarah reads everything of her own and others' creation wonderfully). But this version has several parts, that the version I found did not have - so thank you, for more pieces of one of my favorite poems. I hope Brown-Lavoie will someday be published, so I can have this poem on a shelf and not just in my heart.
The way Sarah describes how she feels about this poem is how I feel about one of her poems, Extended Development. It moves me, without fail, every time.
I fell in love with Sarah Kay's poems after first seeing her on this channel. I bought her book and it was the first poetry book I ever properly read. I was beyond excited to see her on here again and the poem was absolutely incredible
I want to cry, but don't know why I can't.
This video introduced me to this poem just at the point in my life when I needed it. Thank you.
This is such a gift thank you thank you thank you for bringing this to us. I didnt even know this poem existed and now i have it memorized in the five hours that it has been in my life. thank you!
I love this thanks Sarah for always being awesome 💖
This is beautiful. Sarah Kay has always been one of my favourites.
That’s so beautiful!!
Oh God....suddenly the Type and how it was written makes so much more sense now. Thanks Sarah for sharing another wonderful poem :)
This got me teary-eyed. I'm really glad I watched it.
" In a 100 years, I will still be writing about this feeling"
Man! Repeat mode. The more the poem sinks in, the more my heart breaks yet by the end the hope glows brighter.
Fantastic poem and wonderfully brought, thank you.
Me already in tears at the 3:00 mark, and kilometers deep at the end....
I have loved Sarah Kay and now I love this poem. Thank you, OursPoetica team, for sharing it with us. "There are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you'll ever love", that'll really stick with me.
I've never cried from a poem before this, thank you
One of best poems spoken through one of the best voices.
I have never felt this thankful in my life
I checked the time when I almost clicked away from this video. Something told me though, that Sarah would eventually hit something in telling this story that would hit something in me because she usual does. I stuck it out till the end and I am sooo glad I did. I write this with a tear in my eye. Good Job Sarah. Thanks
Thank you. I needed this tonight. 🥰
Well, there's my cry for the day. Beautiful.
Sarah Kay. Just so glad you’re alive. You and your brother are treasures to the written word. Love you guys
That was so amazing.
This is amazing. Every single time.
I have such a deep appreciation for Sarah Kay ❤
I adore Sarah Kay so glad CZcams suggested this to me
I love that part about how humans can sink beneath the waves and come up again. Because we're NOT ships, when we sink we don't have to stay down forever.
This brings me peace like no other poem♡
Oh. My. Heart. Thank you Sarah
Sarah Kay, thank you for inspiring every single day my Oscar Academy Award victory speech moment. I turn 26 years old this May I am a writer storyteller and artist and I live in Jerusalem Israel.
Sobbing 💛
This is beautiful. I will share it with my friend Edzweeeeeeeeeny in a while.
Amazing poem. It's also interesting how one of Sarah's books is called "No Matter the Wreckage" - this poem gives me an idea where that may have come from.
Holy shit! That hit me so hard, over and over again... like my heart was a punching bag. Its the first thing Ive heard on this channel that's spoken to me at all and wow, just wow
This also sounds like a conversation between someone young and their grandmother who has experienced life
Oh my god?! This is amazing
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SO GOOD
I am stunned at the beauty of this
I love you so much Sarah Kay u inspire me a lot in my spoken word poems I fight not to copy exactly how you sound pose write but to only look up to you Dear Sarah Kay.....I love you
Thank you Sarah Kay
Wow. Just.
Wow.
I love this channel
I love how you use your handwriting to read the poem. I met you through Twitter and now follow you here.
I STAN SARAH KAY 🥺❤️
I really like her voice and I really like this poem.
This is beautiful
Such a beautiful poem can only be recited by Sarah Kay.
Her voice is so beautiful
I remember watching Ted talk in 5th grade and Sarah Kay spoke. I grew up with an abusive mother and when Sarah Kay spoke about if she had a daughter it made me cry back then.
Her voice is so soothing
Awesome job.
I love it, has this one poem just devoured me?
Thank you for reading this!
I wasn't sure to do this... And I will.
I'm glad to have this. Today especially.
I'm still thinking of this poem and have the sneaking suspicion that I always will.
wow !!!
Beautiful
I truly love every poem you read.
This is the longest poem I've listened to on this channel so far but it felt like the shortest.