and if you really want a sad girl to smile, then you hold her, until you’re drenched in perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart so that every time her wounds reopen she bleeds bouquets, My God...I love YOU for this
@@nickhohl3468 She's also got a dismal perspective generally. Everything is about victimization. If it's not female victimization then it's Jewish victimization and if it's not that then she's putting herself in the shoes of a black person. This Smile poem kind of encapsulates it. Smiling is helpful not just socially but emotionally. If you can smile and laugh at things that might otherwise pain you then you're basically bulletproof, instead she's assaulted by someone just making the suggestion. It's not a healthy way to live and she's not a happy person. She is "deep" and clever, though, so I guess that's some consolation.
I was told by a random man to smile just hours after my dad passed away. I was so caught off guard that anyone would point out the state of my face that I didn't speak up. I just smiled. To this day it still bothers me.
Rhiannon McGavin is what got me into spoken word. I just won 1st place in a poetry competition at an arts festival. I'm so happy. Spoken word originally let me feel sad or angry but now it just makes me happy.
Lots of comments about the ending line but not nearly enough appreciation for the way she dragged out "smile sweetheart". I can literally hear the men from the street in my head as she says it. That overly cheery almost expectant tone. The way she reads it is perfect woth the added contempt for the statement.
cariiangela I was just sitting in the hallway waiting on class to start trying to figure out who her doppelgänger was and then my friend luna text me and it dawned on me. Luna freaking lovegood
@ It literally does. No baby is mature. Maybe some children are emotionally mature but not many, and they're not physically mature. Maturity comes with age.
@@cameronrhanna I disagree. Maturity comes with life experience, and some individuals have plenty of life altering, life shattering, and life ending experiences before their childhood can even be savored, even if for a mere moment. Age is the length of time one has lived, or survived, whereas maturity is more indicative of the life one has experienced.
@@audreaj2655 There's definitely more to it than my original statement and life experiences count for a lot but I'm going to hold fast to the claim that age matters. Young people often lack experience and perspective but I think there's more to maturity than worldliness. It's about emotional and philosophical balance as well, about knowing your importance and your insignificance simultaneously and having a worldview that can accommodate unpleasant realities without discounting the upside of existence (among other things). I think reflection on the life experiences is required and takes time, and I'm not sure that you can have finished reflecting before you're an adult because things change so quickly in youth. I think you've got to let your thoughts settle down and your worldview solidify before you can really consider yourself mature. Maturity in part means stability which is antithetical to youth and growth.
We watched this in my english class recently and I could not believe the responses from my peers. I thought we had evolved more as a civilization but when I heard the boys saying she was 'Too agressive' i was on the brink of tears because I dont know if they can even grasp the fear in this situation. I dont know if they know that most of the girls in this classroom, their 8th grade peers, have gone through this exact situation and more. It just really disgusts me how people still blame the other side.
At first listening it got under my skin so deeply. I used to hear it when I was saddest, and it just hurt me more. Thank you, especially for "red smile" and "one more muscle to punch".
Came back to this because yesterday a stranger asked "Do you ever smile?" And I whipped my head around him and smiled like a pyscho with crazy wide eyes. He took a step back and I kept giggling throughout the day thinking of this poem.
"And if you really want a sad girl to smile then you hold her. Until you're drenched in perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart, so that every time her wounds reopen she bleeds bouquets..."
"If you want a sad girl to smile; You hold her... Until you reek of the perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart - So when her wounds reopen; she bleeds bouquets." Fuck that is just beautiful.
To quote one of my favorite poems "I am not yours to hold. And if you keep walking around telling girls to smile more no one will ever want to be. And if you get any closer I'll bite you, and smile red"
I read this poem and Art Class by her and won in both categories in my school speech contest. Her work inspires me so much and im so glad I found these poems because they really keep me going. I hope she gains the popularity she deserves
w o r d s / / People don’t give girls enough credit. I’m in the ninth grade and the last time I studied a uniquely female narrative was in 6th grade. I’m in the ninth grade now, and it might not seem like a lot, three years, but... it is. Difference between 12 & 15, difference between girl and.... we’re reading to kill a mockingbird now, and I was walking home one day, thinking about how Dills hair was described as duckfluff or how scout viewed reading as breathing or what I’d help my mom make for dinner when... I guess I was frowning a little.. deep in thought... a man, a grown man, told me to, “smile sweetheart!” Strange right? Telling some stranger to look happy? You know it only takes one more muscle than smiling to punch someone in the teeth... blood’s better than tears anyway, action over thought, thoughts left lingering wriggling through viral veins and organs when trying to fight something you know is bigger than you, the cudgel that has bludgeoned countless before because if there’s no struggle then you lose the cold and broken hallelujah of.... well at least you fought back..... don’t tell sad girls to smile. Don’t tell sad girls to smile because she might be the type that gets cut by hipbones, don’t tell sad girls to smile because she might still be trying to scrub someone else’s sin from her skin, hot water, holy water, it always flows under the bridge eventually. And the dead can only feel cold so if she can feel the burning water then maybe maybe don’t tell sad girls to smile because she does it for herself or someone she feels comfortable with, not some slack jawed nice guy who doesn’t find a frown appealing, she might have a good reason to be sad so don’t you tell me to smile! it’s not your mouth. it’s not yours to kiss to consume, to find comfort in when the windows rattle in the storm or your heart rattles in your rib cage like seeds in the dry earth, unable to grow without a little water, and sunshine and tenderness, and if you really want a sad girl to smile, then you hold her, until you’re drenched in perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart so that every time her wounds reopen she bleeds bouquets, but I’m not yours to hold, and if you keep walking around telling sad girls to smile, no one will ever want to be, and if you come any. closer, I’ll bite you, and smile red.
"it only takes one more muscle than smiling to punch someone in the teeth" i am so using this
Dont worry you arent the only one 😂
This quote is probably older than you are
@@nala3055 yeah I remember it from AIM profiles lol
'I'll bite you, and smile red' 🙌
Psycho ass words
i also like how that's one of the only moments in the poem that she actually smiles! great acting on her part
Next tattoo🤣🤣🤣❤️
This girl Rhiannon McGavin is so bad ass she is so awesome
hi can you pls subcribe tu my yotube channel i will tell you the nameme. its cplled timwonsadventures.
"don't tell sad girls to smile cause its not your mouth"
I love Natsu!!! And this poem
She has a very distinct voice, I always recognise it no matter what poem she performs
and if you really want a sad girl to smile, then you hold her, until you’re drenched in perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart so that every time her wounds reopen she bleeds bouquets,
My God...I love YOU for this
slam poetry is what I turn to no.matter what struggles I have
elisa moniz seriously I watch slam poetry all the time it's a help!😂❤️
Momo Monster yeah me too, I actually also write slam poems and read them at shelters and cafes
elisa moniz Can I hear them some time?
How about God?
I turn to God.
Why isn't she more popular??? This is amazing!
cause she's shit
Harry Lipscombe I would like to know your opinion and reasoning for it in why you think “she’s shit”
@@educationstation6141 she's sexist, and blames the way she feels on random strangers for no good reason, just that they got a penis.
@@nickhohl3468 She's also got a dismal perspective generally. Everything is about victimization. If it's not female victimization then it's Jewish victimization and if it's not that then she's putting herself in the shoes of a black person. This Smile poem kind of encapsulates it. Smiling is helpful not just socially but emotionally. If you can smile and laugh at things that might otherwise pain you then you're basically bulletproof, instead she's assaulted by someone just making the suggestion. It's not a healthy way to live and she's not a happy person. She is "deep" and clever, though, so I guess that's some consolation.
@@nickhohl3468 oh god
I was told by a random man to smile just hours after my dad passed away. I was so caught off guard that anyone would point out the state of my face that I didn't speak up. I just smiled. To this day it still bothers me.
Smile
@@ghostlygames4686 no u
omg "ill bite you, and smile red." love it!
Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night and wouldn't you love to love her?
KatieKat takes to the sky like a bird in flight and who will be her lover
stephanie rogers ❤❤
all your life you've never seen a woman taken by the wind...
KatieKat would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Morrigan Miller
will you ever win?
KatieKat and will you ever win.
Rhiannon McGavin is what got me into spoken word. I just won 1st place in a poetry competition at an arts festival. I'm so happy. Spoken word originally let me feel sad or angry but now it just makes me happy.
Lots of comments about the ending line but not nearly enough appreciation for the way she dragged out "smile sweetheart". I can literally hear the men from the street in my head as she says it. That overly cheery almost expectant tone. The way she reads it is perfect woth the added contempt for the statement.
"So that every Tim her wounds re-open,she bleeds bouquets " 💐
"If you come any closer, I'll bite you and smile red"
I love it
😅
Okay, but does anyone else see the Luna Lovegood look alike? No just me okay.
Cheyenne Ellzey I WAS THINKING THAT TOO
cariiangela I was just sitting in the hallway waiting on class to start trying to figure out who her doppelgänger was and then my friend luna text me and it dawned on me. Luna freaking lovegood
maybe 😉
That's why I clicked on this video. I thought it was her
holy crap. i thought i was alone.
I keep coming back to this poem
"I'll bite you and smile red"
Jesus Christ she is so well spoken
Kayla very
I love Rhiannon so much! I've watched this, like, 20 times
WOW!! I'm 37 and you touched my scattered, broken, loving, confused, abused heart. Thank you, mama. Thank you.
she in the 9TH GRADE!! damn she has the perspective of a 30 year old
It's already tells you what girls are going through in life without saying a thing
She's 21 rn
@ It literally does. No baby is mature. Maybe some children are emotionally mature but not many, and they're not physically mature. Maturity comes with age.
@@cameronrhanna I disagree. Maturity comes with life experience, and some individuals have plenty of life altering, life shattering, and life ending experiences before their childhood can even be savored, even if for a mere moment. Age is the length of time one has lived, or survived, whereas maturity is more indicative of the life one has experienced.
@@audreaj2655 There's definitely more to it than my original statement and life experiences count for a lot but I'm going to hold fast to the claim that age matters. Young people often lack experience and perspective but I think there's more to maturity than worldliness. It's about emotional and philosophical balance as well, about knowing your importance and your insignificance simultaneously and having a worldview that can accommodate unpleasant realities without discounting the upside of existence (among other things). I think reflection on the life experiences is required and takes time, and I'm not sure that you can have finished reflecting before you're an adult because things change so quickly in youth. I think you've got to let your thoughts settle down and your worldview solidify before you can really consider yourself mature. Maturity in part means stability which is antithetical to youth and growth.
My mother would always tell me don’t let anybody tell you to smile. I have lived by that since then
I have been scowering the internet for their poems and omg I am absolutely in love with every part of their mindset.
I have this entire poem memorized.
I've watched this so many times it pops up in my recommendations every two weeks 😂
We watched this in my english class recently and I could not believe the responses from my peers. I thought we had evolved more as a civilization but when I heard the boys saying she was 'Too agressive' i was on the brink of tears because I dont know if they can even grasp the fear in this situation. I dont know if they know that most of the girls in this classroom, their 8th grade peers, have gone through this exact situation and more. It just really disgusts me how people still blame the other side.
Beautiful...Beautiful...Beautiful!!!!!!
gahhhhhh well now I know my night is going to be sleepless because I am gonna listen to everything this girl has ever made
Wow. I'm pretty much blown away. Thank you, Rhiannon.
Beautiful poem I come back to when I feel like I am always too sad.
‘If you come closer, I’ll bite you’
So real
At first listening it got under my skin so deeply.
I used to hear it when I was saddest, and it just hurt me more. Thank you, especially for "red smile" and "one more muscle to punch".
My favorite of her performances of this poem.
I've watched this so many times I learnt all the lines by heart!
Came back to this because yesterday a stranger asked "Do you ever smile?" And I whipped my head around him and smiled like a pyscho with crazy wide eyes. He took a step back and I kept giggling throughout the day thinking of this poem.
I still get chills when I listen to this
"And if you really want a sad girl to smile then you hold her. Until you're drenched in perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart, so that every time her wounds reopen she bleeds bouquets..."
To be homset I never pay attention until a poet mention the action to bleed.
The smile red part was so badass!!
Oh, this is so good. I will cherish this and spit parts of it at people who try to mold me into what they want to see
I love this! The last line in particular had me inner cheering .
this is the best thing that i’ve ever seen ever
There is so much power and beauty and her words and her performance!
This made me cry. So incredible thank you
that last line...! yesss
She has such a lovely voice! ❤️
So incredible! Thank you for sharing Rhiannon
The performance it’s self is perfect let alone the words !!
don't tell sad girls to smile.
Gives me Anne with an E vibes
and I love it
❤ thank you. This really helps.
This. Is. So. Important. To. Me.
love everything she does
“don’t tell sad girls to smile she might have a good reason to be sad”
Best sentence in the whole thing "It only takes one more muscle than smiling, to punch someone in the teeth." It couldn't have been put better.
I couldn't agree anymore. She is preaching. Ahhh
I love Rhiannon so muchhhh
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Don't tell sad girls to smile.
This is why I love poems
"If you want a sad girl to smile;
You hold her...
Until you reek of the perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart -
So when her wounds reopen; she bleeds bouquets."
Fuck that is just beautiful.
God I love this girl
AWW BABY RAI
i always come back to this video when i need it💓
I wish I discovered this beautiful piece earlier.
this girl's words are so damn amazing .
she's so clever and has a way with words and she's funny ( her other poem Biology )
she's got style
Outstanding! Well done poet!
I got to perform this for my freshman english class after researching her and oml this is amazing. I can quote this poem almost word for word
To quote one of my favorite poems "I am not yours to hold. And if you keep walking around telling girls to smile more no one will ever want to be. And if you get any closer I'll bite you, and smile red"
I absolutely loved this
my all time favourite poem
I read this poem and Art Class by her and won in both categories in my school speech contest. Her work inspires me so much and im so glad I found these poems because they really keep me going. I hope she gains the popularity she deserves
GOOSEBUMPS !😭
i love her voice
"and if you come any closer ill bite you and smile red" legit my favorite part
what a queen
that was awesome. no words.
this is so beautiful omg...
"I'll bite you, and smile red." Yes.. Just yes.
w o r d s / /
People don’t give girls enough credit.
I’m in the ninth grade and the last time I studied a uniquely female narrative was in 6th grade. I’m in the ninth grade now, and it might not seem like a lot, three years, but... it is. Difference between 12 & 15, difference between girl and....
we’re reading to kill a mockingbird now, and I was walking home one day, thinking about how Dills hair was described as duckfluff or how scout viewed reading as breathing or what I’d help my mom make for dinner when... I guess I was frowning a little.. deep in thought... a man, a grown man, told me to, “smile sweetheart!” Strange right? Telling some stranger to look happy? You know it only takes one more muscle than smiling to punch someone in the teeth... blood’s better than tears anyway, action over thought, thoughts left lingering wriggling through viral veins and organs when trying to fight something you know is bigger than you, the cudgel that has bludgeoned countless before because if there’s no struggle then you lose the cold and broken hallelujah of....
well at least you fought back..... don’t tell sad girls to smile. Don’t tell sad girls to smile because she might be the type that gets cut by hipbones, don’t tell sad girls to smile because she might still be trying to scrub someone else’s sin from her skin, hot water, holy water, it always flows under the bridge eventually. And the dead can only feel cold so if she can feel the burning water then maybe
maybe don’t tell sad girls to smile because she does it for herself or someone she feels comfortable with, not some slack jawed nice guy who doesn’t find a frown appealing, she might have a good reason to be sad so don’t you tell me to smile!
it’s not your mouth. it’s not yours to kiss to consume, to find comfort in when the windows rattle in the storm or your heart rattles in your rib cage like seeds in the dry earth, unable to grow without a little water, and sunshine and tenderness, and if you really want a sad girl to smile, then you hold her, until you’re drenched in perfume from the gardens you planted in her heart so that every time her wounds reopen she bleeds bouquets,
but I’m not yours to hold, and if you keep walking around telling sad girls to smile, no one will ever want to be, and if you come any. closer, I’ll bite you, and smile red.
Selene Makara thank you so much ♥🌻
you're welcome.
elli alyce
Thanks. Have a good day. ❤️
Thanks a lot mann!! :)
She's so damn amazing
I love this girl
*smillllleeee sweetheeeeaarrrtttt*
She's a senior 😳
Time goes by fast
gave me chills..
Amazing artist ❤❤❤
Man how does she write so deep? I wish I could.
love this!
This is amazing
MOOD RN
Such a bad ass i loved it
made me cry in 2 minutes.
This is everything 💔😓
Lovee this
I feel empowered 💚🔥
i love her.
kids in my class tell me to smile. And in my mind I'm like, "Shut up! I don't need to! just leave me be!" ;-;
Finally someone understands how freaking annoying it is to be told to smile
What a powerful person
I love this so much I can't even speak
I saw this I cried and I'm OK with that
this is art