Poetry: Why it is Important: Scott Griffin at TEDxBishopsU

[@cfbanciu]

I would like to express my admiration and thanks, Mr Griffin, for your love for “The power and beauty of the written and spoken word!” and for your commitment to educate young people (and not only) to get access to this fabulous power and beauty that can sometimes save lives. During communism in Romania almost everybody was reading poetry. We had at least one literary magazines in every important city. BUcharest had about 4. We stood in line for books the same way we did for the missing food. Poetry and art was soul food and saved us from complete alienation, gave us trust and the power to survive.
And what a coincidence, today I read that the Romanian poet Ana Bladiana was honored with the LIFETIME RECOGNITION AWARD by The GRIFFIN TRUST FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY. This is great news.

[@zombie8me]

carmen-francesca Banciu
I would love to read Romanian poetry!

[@dare1839]

I stumble across this through my search of something completely different and question why? Somewhat curious somehow interested in the context of its title,
I press play and away my mind immersed itself into the sharing of words and vibrant execution of harvested thoughts projected in a palatable tone. I then ask myself why?
Why have I come to be in this moment in time, given the exposure to this subsistence to fuel my wonder and recall my mind from this journey…
Why now, somehow things seem to happen at a moment when I unknowingly need it most.
I suppose I’ll restart it now and once again lose myself in its subtle yet strong hold. Let the lesson be told, I am listening.

[@Apple_100]

lol

[@lsusan]

Lovely.

[@annayin7764]

I have watched this many times, it still resonates! Thank you Mr. Griffin!❤❤❤

[@jennyatmodus]

Thank you so much and what an absolute joy to hear you read Thomas and Arnold 🥰👏

[@rievans57]

"we all need to read poetry and when we come across a beautiful line to commit it to memory"...….Amen!

[@calebrichardson7119]

Who else is watching this for distance learning 😂😂😂

[@beansheeran7322]

Who is distence sorrh no england

[@oniketsoore7772]

poetry is the essence of language! precisely! It's also the essence of everything, the essence of life! I adore u, Scott Griffin!

[@lohkoonhoong6957]

Song and singer must unite together
For the wind to lift them like a feather.

[@user-ow6vv3pn3v]

Well said.

[@pdlyons1288]

i am so grateful to mr griffin for this poetry video. wonderful .

[@kentroklus]

How is it possible that this video only has 172 likes?! This is such a wonderful speech! I wish there were more like it.

[@zinebhaddaji600]

yes i say he same thing

[@justaroot4315]

Bring back poetry and philosophy...

[@isamar1632]

Thank you Mr. Griffin for your work for poetry and youth!

[@christophergood9533]

This talk is fine, I suppose, but Griffin's recitation is out of this world. I have rarely heard a more talented reader. I hope I have his voice at his age . . .

[@erickmeyer5351]

It kind of negates that whole punishment makes kids hate things argument I was told in college while learning to teach. What a fabulous punishment!

[@celesteamor996]

Indeed

[@Heartonpoetry]

Inspirational, motivated me to keep on writing and growing. Posting my work to social media platforms, hoping that they do some good to someone.

[@DrSylva22]

Extra ordinary way of expressing the beauty of poetry...by Poet Scott
l like to hear it many times more if I have time...
I wish I can...!

[@TheAnnayin]

More poeple need to see this....wonderful and powerful in its truth!

[@dennisr.levesque2320]

Please forgive me. I need to address the dark side of poetry:
Lost In Advice
Ground, ground, so much to plow.
Good from bad, discern it how?
Test & study, and retest again.
Waste my time. till I start to spin.
Life, life, such a high price.
I gotta go and get some advice.
Seeds, seeds, so many to sow.
Which will die, and which will grow?
The more I've thought, the more I've sinned.
Should I just cast them into the wind?
Water,water, but it's solid ice.
I gotta go and get more advice.
Things, things, so many to do.
Should I work until I turn blue?
The more I do, I find open locks.
Did someone open my Pandora's Box?
With advice I will gird.
But alas, it's only a word.
Words, words, so many to choose.
The more I need, the more I peruse.
The more I peruse, the more I need.
Should I use words until I bleed?
Damn, damn, this ain't nice.
Here I am, lost in advice.
Brains, brains, so easy to use.
They're so easy, I get confused.
Don't wanna reach my point of dispare,
And just throw my arms up in the air.
Think I'll go back the way I came,
And try again 'till I'm insane.
Needs, needs, so many to feed.
From this work, how can I be freed?
Don't want fatigue to cause me to sin.
But maybe later, I can try again.
Please, please, just take me home.
I am tired, and now I groan.
I know you love me, and you're the best.
So grant my prayer for a little rest.
Time, time, don't wanna think twice.
I'm already lost in advice.

[@lindaelainelucas]

Keep writing.

[@shadyinstrumentals4904]

keep writing bro

[@nallekarhu7994]

Poetry is is perfect
But music more so
For when im sad
Between notes ..i go
Mere words console
Of that no doubt
But vibrating strings
With some one who sings
Is for me
A more wonderful thing

[@dennisr.levesque2320]

That was good. Did you write that? Do you mind if I edit it a bit?
Poetry is perfect. But music, much more so.
For when I'm sad..., Between the notes I go.
Mere words console, Of that no doubt.
But vibrating strings, With someone who sings,
Are for me, more wonderful things....
With which I can't live without.

[@englishlover24601]

Funny...your anti-poetry response is actually poetry itself. Music and poetry are like salt and pepper.

[@monikamonika2698]

It is my first time to listening poetry really it is nice i really i enjoy it

[@terrymooney1125]

Excellent erudite presentation.

[@moranih]

No kid grew up hating the idea of buying a car because they were forced to wash one as punishment.

[@OXSkuldream]

Love

[@mananka1000]

My favorite poet is Galaktion Tabidze.

[@laraahmed979]

such an amazing speech

[@valuabletipseasylife]

Nice presentation.

[@haraldodunkirk1432]

Language the “mirror of the soul”? I’d say it’s the quantum of experience.

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

My favourite poets are Shadwell, Cibber, McGonagall and Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.

[@franzlisztish]

EXCELLENT!

[@bijoygogoi3044]

It doesn't always come from our soul or is reflections of our soul. One may dip into a topic and everything out is from imaginations. Poetry isn't always interested me.

[@atlast6]

and i'd have given anything to say that in the first place ... you see that's the beauty

[@Funz2022]

Contests and grants & Poetry months are all fine & dandy but you've got to start digging into the deeper, sometimes subversive elements of poetry to get it back into the hearts of man. There is no statue of Irving Layton in Canada because Irving offended & challenged popular notions. His work, in a way, offends the common man. But so does much of Literature. What you do is you make poetry appear like the true subversion of commonality that it can be & then it's an option for young people. Poetry Slams & spoken word curry too much to laziness & common ideas, it's doing nothing more than allowing people to pat themselves on the back. The discipline of real writing & poetry will seem a true life path to more if it's represented right, the right poets saying & writing about the right things. Especially in the world of poetry, the most of what has been written is negligeable

[@henrys428]

Sire…sire…please don’t call me a
liar, for I swear I have not destroyed your pen outside of this beautiful
empire.
I am your lord, Avoris, and the
truth of my pen, I aspire.
But please, my lord, my ruler, my
sire, I do not know; I swear I do not know where your pen is, for I am no liar.
Liar, liar, but your clever lies, I
do admire, but the truth of your treachery I solely desire.
But what truth can I offer, if I am
no liar?
Why, your soul, entire.
My soul entire? For the truth you
require? How my soul, do you expect to acquire?
Why, gods, rulers, miracles are my
attire, and so your soul, with divine fire, I will tire; your soul, in you, the
liar, and I will witness your soul retire.
Please, my sire, spare me this
grief, for I would never provoke your ire.
I know it is you, Avoris, my
squire, who stole my pen for your own desire, you stole it from me when we past
that spire, for it was your wish, against me, to conspire.
My lord, my sovereign, my sire, I
swear I did not take the pen, I couldn’t have…please believe that I am no liar.
I do care for you, my squire, but I
do not believe that you are no liar; I see your lies lifting you higher,
higher, with your mind on fire, into my wrath, entire. I see your soul, so
dire, surrounded by my divine slaves: the gods, the miracles, all disguised as
my attire…Avoris, let the truth transpire, save your soul, and for once…be no
liar.
Okay…it was me who stole your pen,
but I did not destroy it in divine fire, I couldn’t, I wanted to but I couldn’t
because I lost it prior.
I know, Avoris, I know you did not
destroy my pen, for I already have it back. It came back to me, Avoris, and it
told me everything. And that is how I knew you were a liar, and now I shall
take your soul, and watch it burn in divine fire.

[@prettypristinepoetry8984]

I LOVE THIS POEM SO MUCH IT'S PERFECTION

[@henrys428]

@@prettypristinepoetry8984 Now that's what I like to hear. I've been writing ten years now. I've written eight stories and some poems. I think it just takes a long time for your work to get noticed.

[@henrys428]

@@prettypristinepoetry8984 But yeah, I love this poem. It is a good one. I wrote it all at once as well. I bet it took me ten minutes. Sometimes the best things just come.

[@Checkersss]

im gonna do that to my kids. read them poems and then use it as a punishment..maybe they'll share my love of poetry that way LOL.

[@bumbuleetaaja]

hello,
is there a transcript available for this?

[@darynagladun7082]

Where exactly is Romania's border with Russia?

[@samwingfield9749]

Hilton college

[@yasusafari9747]

Poetree Feeds the Heart, Body, Mind, Soukl and Culture of Humanity

[@yasusafari9747]

Yes ! Sure Yarta

[@beansheeran7322]

No england sorry no understand

[@beansheeran7322]

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[@dicksonmukisa2590]

Wonder if humanity

[@jenniferarnold-delgado3489]

Poetry is how we wash our words with soap and water , to clean them up and dress them in their Sunday best .

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

What a Big Head!

[@Levan4KGaming]

His public speaking skills are impressive, but he didn't answer the question, Why it is Important?

[@ldinti03]

Levan 0:22

[@DragonCreature1]

At the end he says it "defines our humanity". I suppose he could have stated it in a stronger way, but it's there.

[@lindaelainelucas]

@@ldinti03 See minute seven. He states it pretty specifically.

[@aaronhernandez5009]

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[@mathewwright4129]

ITS NOT

[@mathewwright4129]

BTW I have had 1 girlfriend and I am 21

[@saucissauce8022]

You're so kewl.

[@peterstrianus1790]

The only problem is that for you English speakers exist only English speaking poets. Learn another language or read translations of others. A name ? ESENIN

[@Th3R3alD3alGaming]

FIRST

[@HappySlapperKid]

langweej

[@AshishBihani]

Yeah, reading an Alan Ginsberg poem in front of your dad. boom !

[@NOMVrewq]

never explained why poetry is important. claimed poetry is the essence of language but never supported that statement. this is kind of a clickbait with a plug on his whatever competition. i lost 15 minutes listening to this guy rambling about his life

[@Jittttttt405]

have to watch this bs for school 🤦

[@Apple_100]

fr real my guy

[@adamhoch7664]

Honestly poetry is a waste of time.

[@iamaliciashonta]

Love