Voetry

What is Video + Poetry???
Voetry :)
We combine spoken word poetry with beautiful visual arts.

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Take a peek! Voetry, an artistic combination of spoken word poetry and visual arts. Find all episodes in the BIO!

#voetry
#dessspence
#blackwomen
#inspirationalquotes
#spokenword
#poetry
#tororontopoetry
#pocwriters

[Voetry @ThisisVoetry]

Vividly put I must say! I am loving the wordplay by @mr___jenkins.
If anyone reading this has got a micro poem of their own and happen to be in the mood to share, send it over in a DM for a chance to be featured <3

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#poetoftheday
#spokenword
#micropoem
#blackpoet
#poetry

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"You were carved
Out of delicate hands
That knew how to leave
Detail impressions
In the softest of matter.

I can see where
the brush strokes
Glazed over your
skin repeatedly."

~ Nigel Birch

This poet's lyricism always leaves in awe. Big fan!

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#poetoftheweek
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Word of the Day: Hero

The word hero keeps coming to mind this week. This is a bit corny but I'm not thinking of it as saving others but more as saving myself, being my own hero.

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#hero
#wordoftheday
#dessspence
#blackwomen
#shortpoem
#inspirationalquotes
#spokenword

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Yes,
Yes
He is
the one.
Because
Takes a single him
To break the whole of me.
Unfixable, unrepairable,
Excuse the dramatization
But fuck...
Apologize!

Because it’s my time
Spent
Backtracking the remember whens.

~ #YoursTruly @byaffrica

#voetry
#affricaspence

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Everyday Excellence⁠
by: @dwayne_morgan
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This has been my nightly binge lately. I keep saying I'd like advice and mentors and honestly overlooked the written word being a great mentor in itself.⁠

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#everydayexcellence
#dwaynemorgan
#weeklybinge
#blackauthors

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Reminiscing about past Voetry web series seasons. This is a season 2 teaser and I had so much fun filming that summer. I built off of all the mistakes I made my first time around lol. Now I'm getting plans together for season 4! Time flies

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#dessspence
#spokenword
#poetry

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Voetry's last film festival selection of 2021. Soon to be building off of the previous set of poets.

#voetry
#canadianandinternationalshortfilmfestival
#cisff
#dessspence
#blackwomen
#shortpoem
#inspirationalquotes
#spokenword
#poetry
#tororontopoetry
#pocwriters

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What is now will soon be past Just because you do it doesn’t mean you always will. Whether you’re dancing dust or breathing light you’re never exactly the same, twice.

~ Yrsa Daley-Ward @yrsadaleyward

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#yrsadaleyward
#blackwomen
#shortpoem
#inspirationalquotes
#poetry

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I’d love you if you’d let me
I’d place the palm of my hands
On the bare of your chest
With my one and only motivation being

Holding your soul
~ #YoursTruly @desspicablyme

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#dessspence
#blackwomen
#shortpoem
#inspirationalquotes
#poetry
#tororontopoetry
#pocwriters

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Word of the day is: #GRIP

I am a lover of love! Always have been and always will be. Moving into 2022 with the intention of welcoming love as it comes

#voetry⁠
#dessspence⁠
#blackman
#blackwomen⁠
#blacklove
#blackcouple
#getcreative⁠
#selflove⁠
#mindfullness⁠
#blackartist

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I wrote this poem at a time when I felt that the grip of anxiety would not loosen. Writing this out kind of helped let it go in a way :)

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#poetry
#poetryporn
#blackpoet
#micropoem
#slampoetry
#spokenword
#toronto
#blackwoman

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Once upon a time, I used to go to HMV then come home and read the lyrics of the CD I bought. Many songs were downright poetic. So I am binging some old lyrics for my poetry writing.

#voetry
#weeklybinge
#hmv
#compactdiscs
#oldschool
#lyrics

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"forever" everything we no longer are
~@kinte_poetry

Such a gifted poet. So glad I ran into their page.

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#kintepoetry
#inspirationalquotes
#spokenword
#poetry

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#MAGIC

My word of the day is definitely the mood of the day. Feeling like magic lol as corny as that sounds! #sketchedbyyourstruly

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#dessspence
#blackwomen
#getcreative
#selflove
#mindfullness
#blackartist

[Voetry @ThisisVoetry]

Say something

Be the one on the ground
looking up and yell
“Don’t jump!”

From this height you couldn’t
even catch me.
Forget the gravity of my weight,
I carry a heavy heart
and that alone
can crush you.

~ #YoursTruly @desspicablyme

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#dessspence
#blackwomen

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Spotify Philosophize This! (@iamstephenwest)

I am a lover of thought, it can be powerful. As a creative, my ideas shape my poetry. I love this podcast because it challenges me to ask myself some insightful questions.

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#philosophizethis
#podcast
#philosophy

[Voetry @ThisisVoetry]

A little Canadian BHM tidbit:
In December 1995, the House of Commons officially recognized February as Black History Month in Canada following a motion introduced by the first African Canadian woman elected to Parliament, the Honourable Jean Augustine (@honjeanaugustine)

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Nothing but love for this rapper and him introducing me to spoken word way back when. #defpoetryjam one of the many inspirations for my web series⁠
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#voetry⁠
#guesswho⁠
#blackmen⁠
#shortpoem⁠
#lyrics⁠
#quotes⁠
#inspirationalquotes⁠
#spokenword⁠
#poetry⁠
#blackpoets

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"It's a number game,
but shit don't add up somehow⁠
Like I got, sixteen to
thirty-two bars to rock it⁠
But only 15% of profits,
ever see my pockets like⁠
Sixty-nine billion in the
last twenty years⁠
Spent on national defense
but folks still live in fear"⁠
~ Yasiin Bey⁠

[Voetry @ThisisVoetry]

A bit late with this news BUT this is so powerful! Congrats!

Renowned writer Louise Bernice Halfe, also known by the Cree name Sky Dancer, has been named Canada's new parliamentary poet laureate.

#voetry
#louisebernicehalfe
#skydancer
#parliamentarypoetlaureate
#cbc