At that part of the poem, Rives begins to quote what other speakers at the same TED conference. He keeps quoting previous speakers (mimicking mockingbirds) until around 3:05.
@JPhands It's about uniting our divided world by listening to each other. If he is the mockingbird and his words are the song then maybe his message can reach out and touch every single person he talked about in that poem.
i just noticed... on youtube UK 5 stars comes up as 'excellent' as apposed to youtube USA where it comes up as 'awesome'. i think they should change it to 'spiffing' or 'top notch'. sorry, irrelevant i know. but yes naturally 5 stars and a favorite. stunning performance.
its worrying how such a great video such as this has only 150,000 views after 5 years of youtube existence. yet we have this crap which gets 1 million views an hour...
Rives is absolutely amazing. The way he uses words to play with ideas is incredible. I want to see him live.
At that part of the poem, Rives begins to quote what other speakers at the same TED conference. He keeps quoting previous speakers (mimicking mockingbirds) until around 3:05.
To ignore the art of creative speaking is to be blind to a whole new world of creative and inventive beauty.
I come back to listen to this constantly
My english teacher showed us this. I thought it was awesome that he can talk so fast and not mess up on his words....wow
This moves my heart. Rives is absolutely incredible
I wish I could see the works he pulled this from to see how it all came together. So love this poem.
he is one of my favorite poets.
I don't think some people realize how amazing this video is...
This guy is amazing! Thank you Sarah Kay for leading me to this.
Brilliant. Thanks for letting me know.
Rives is just about as cool as it gets with spoken word.
Someone please give this man the key to the city !!!
Damn this guy is a genius I just got my mind blown!
@JPhands It's about uniting our divided world by listening to each other. If he is the mockingbird and his words are the song then maybe his message can reach out and touch every single person he talked about in that poem.
This was amazing. Sounds like someone writing down everything that came to their mind for a whole day. XD
love it love it love it!
what a lovely vision! xD
man dat hurt wen he said "i'll get your ex lover telling someone else goodmorning"
Beautiful
I usually don't like poets, but this guy's incredible :o
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I'm wondering how music singers (not much talent, auto tune and stuff) but spoken word poetry isnt the shit... this is crazy good
i just noticed... on youtube UK 5 stars comes up as 'excellent' as apposed to youtube USA where it comes up as 'awesome'. i think they should change it to 'spiffing' or 'top notch'. sorry, irrelevant i know. but yes naturally 5 stars and a favorite. stunning performance.
Loved it's!
f*cking amazing...love his stuf ..x go rives x
@th3fatalpride when it comes from the heart you dont need to recite, it you just flows out of you.
hes crazy awesome
that really was amazing. i love his rapping episodes just awesome
i wish i was as great as a poet as he.
I'm glad I saw this after seeing a few other TED movies.
Did he write this on the spot?
brilliant
this is amazing
no no thank you ted! that was awsome!
Amazing ❤🎉❤🎉❤
sounds a bit like Woody Harrelson's poem "Thoughts from within"
I loved❤
Awesome
At 0:56 there is a guy laughing, the loudest guy and he is in the majority of TEDTALKs, every year. You can recognize his laugh. Watch out for it.
Awsome poem XD
this dudes a rapper
That just blew my fucking mind lol.
well... damn.
sorta speechless now.
My brain just jizzed...
anyone know the song from the part at the end?
its worrying how such a great video such as this has only 150,000 views after 5 years of youtube existence. yet we have this crap which gets 1 million views an hour...
great
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
goood gig
WOW
@bailesie
I agree.
Wow
Wow! n_n
woah, what just happened to me?
haha this was posted four years ago
soo funny
This is a wonderful poem and there is nothing wrong with it but what's up with the overly repeated hand motion?
just so you know, you're kind of my hero.
It's all about him.
It's all about him
NOOOOOOO!
在我看来他说了5分钟驴唇不对马嘴的废话
haha you obviously don't know who Rives is
Why does "Short explanation, hippie parents" get should a good reaction? It's the only part of this poem I don't quite understand.
I must not be very deep, but I don't get what he is saying.
I'm interested in poetry, but wow, I don't have an ear for it.
eminem mockingbird version is better
wtf was that?
Lame