Am i the only one who wants to give him the tightest hug? This is heartbreaking. He's so resilient for going through all that and be able to recite it again and again and again. Much respect.
Quoting a line from 'When Love Arrives': "Maybe when love comes back it is 20 years after the divorce. Love looks older now, but is still as beautiful as you last saw her"
As much as I love seeing him perform on stages there's something lovely about this video. It's beautifully shot and this spoken word is one of my favourites of his.
I, too, developed a stutter after my parents' [first] divorce. They separated and I Would spend all the air In my little lungs saying, "M-m-m-mom look what I made." They each remarried. And remarried. And rem-m-m-arried, The meaning lost like my Breath as I struggled To share the simplest, Most innocent things. ________________________ I'm saying I can relate, brother.
I hope that you read this message and know that your work made me fall in love with words. It may not seem like much just reading this, but i will remember that text and the impact it had on me. In a society like ours there is not enough place for deepness, so please never forget the influence of your words. It's by inspiration, passion and determination that we change th world. Your passion is important : it just changed me.
After everything I've been through If I were to break even now That would just be me surrendering to my heart I must not fall into despair For what has happened in the past Will only lead me to break further From which I might never recover
I listened to this 29 times in a row, ironic much? I preformed it for an audition and got an amazing part! Phil Kaye your words outstanding are magical!!
I've been off and on with poetry, but every time I listen to a poet as inspirational as he is. It persuades me to keep on trying. Persuades me to find more inspiration to write about. Please if anybody has any tips, let me know. Btw I'm a male 18.
im 12 and ive just started writing poetry . my advice would be to redo/watch the thing that inspired you to do poetry . if it was a moment try to relive that moment each time you have douts
@@chado3000 idk man I'm 16 now and I also feel like sometimes younger people are wiser than adults. I often times find myself having to be the grown up when I'm around grown ups because they are so mentally immature. I actually forgot about that comment I posted though but still follow it. To this day I come back to this poem of his when I'm looking for inspiration. 🤣❤️
Words of gold. I now know that repetition is more than just a word that kept me going throughout my life as a musician and am thankful for this and for your conformation Phil!
My language arts teacher recently showed my class this video since we are working on poetry. I tried not to cry in class as this poem was so beautiful and it felt so close to home. Amazing job!
I love these poems that are almost shot in a 'music video' type of style. Obviously, I still love seeing people perform on stage, but there is something very intimate about the poetry and the beauty (and the absence of noise from an audience). And as always, Phil does an amazing job at sharing his stories through poetry :)
Found this 3 days ago and watched it about 20 times. Gives me goosebumps everytime, but I should probably take the advice and chill out and stop playing this on repeat :3
Breath taking idea. Almost like semantic satiation. Words are strong. However used to the right way they can tear apart the world or bring hope to anyone and everyone. Thankyou!
Enjoyed your poems. And your unique word choices enhanced the poems emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout. I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and morph into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida, Al
So Phil and Sarah Kaye are brother and sister? If so that is awesome and it all makes sense and makes me love her and now him even more. I never knew Phil before now but I am so thankful for meeting him. This is such a deep, rich, emotion, and meaningful poetry piece. Sarah is my hero in the SLAM poetry world and now it looks like Phil is too. Again, like Sarah, Phil doesn't raise his voice and still manages to capture and make the emotional hits become so tangible that I can grab onto them. I want to see more.
Oh I am sorry, thank you for letting me know. I guess I saw a slight resemblance and with the name it was worth asking. Thank you for clearing it up any confusion.
+Patrick Shutt You're not alone, they explain that everyone thinks they're either siblings or married lol! It's just coincidence that they have the same surname. Sarah's actual brother's name is Phil aswell!
It was so powerful that maked me crying on the train.. As a stutter I always tried do explain people how does it feel and for the 1st time in my 20 years of life (and stutterness) I finally found something that is more about me than myself. Thank you.
I think I might perform this in our school elocution. (Last year I did Neil Hilborn's _OCD,_ and came second, and this is less depressing so I may get the extra edge that way, ha)
I performed the shorter version of Phil Kaye's Repetition a month ago for first impressions in school. A month later, I was the only one recognized by my adviser. Out of tribute and love for this awesome poet I started posting his quotes in our inspirational bulletin board. And others loved him as much as well.
I have watched him perform this poem over and over again. It still hasn't lost its meaning to me.
I don't know if you did that on purpose but you just quotes Sarah Kay's poem called postcards
lol no I didn't xD but I love Sarah Kay and I will definitely check her poem out, thank you :)
Sato Saotome Check out Project VOICE, Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye's joint project. They're amazing alone, together they're wondrous.
1Eilatan Thanks! and I know right? I get shivers when I see them performing together
What does it mean at the end when he talks about space? I dont understand that at all
I've listened to this like a thousand tumes but the repetition still has a meaning
Nikka Gan then you don’t get it
Am i the only one who wants to give him the tightest hug? This is heartbreaking. He's so resilient for going through all that and be able to recite it again and again and again. Much respect.
as somebody who suffered from a stutter as a kid, this was breathtaking.
ikr i was thinking that
Quoting a line from 'When Love Arrives':
"Maybe when love comes back it is 20 years after the divorce. Love looks older now, but is still as beautiful as you last saw her"
As much as I love seeing him perform on stages there's something lovely about this video. It's beautifully shot and this spoken word is one of my favourites of his.
I, too, developed a stutter
after my parents' [first] divorce.
They separated and I
Would spend all the air
In my little lungs saying,
"M-m-m-mom look what I made."
They each remarried.
And remarried.
And rem-m-m-arried,
The meaning lost like my
Breath as I struggled
To share the simplest,
Most innocent things.
________________________
I'm saying I can relate, brother.
if it's all right, may i ask how did it happen? the stuttering i mean. Was it out of the blue?
Not sure, really. I was only about four when they split up.
Oh okay! thank you><
The reason i'm asking is because i'm writing a story for my film project and it's inspired by this poem.
wow
Yep I did as well its coming back I hate it
"When I came back there was no gravity in our home"
I hope that you read this message and know that your work made me fall in love with words. It may not seem like much just reading this, but i will remember that text and the impact it had on me. In a society like ours there is not enough place for deepness, so please never forget the influence of your words. It's by inspiration, passion and determination that we change th world. Your passion is important : it just changed me.
i've watched and heard this poem so many times yet every time is more beautiful and meaningful than the last
careful, it'll lose its meaning
touché ;) in all seriousness though, Phil's performance of this poem has definitely gotten better and better over the years.
What does he mean at the end when he talks about space?
I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS
still in love, every time things get too hard i come here
Reminder to come back here once more 😊
👏same
He recited this at my school today. William Penn Charter School. Very well done.
bULLETS
cool!
Sarah Noelley hELLO
wish i could hear this straight from him right in front of me too
gears ghoul YOU'RE PROFILE PIC, HELLO, FRIEND
I watch this everyday and it never loses its meaning to me
that is ironic asf cx
+Gregory Hines true 😂
Never thought a poem can be so addictive. This poem heals you when you are heartborken!
After everything I've been through
If I were to break even now
That would just be me surrendering to my heart
I must not fall into despair
For what has happened in the past
Will only lead me to break further
From which I might never recover
Whenever he said I love you repeatedly it killed me inside not because of the story but because of the similarity to my life....
I listened to this 29 times in a row, ironic much? I preformed it for an audition and got an amazing part! Phil Kaye your words outstanding are magical!!
I've been off and on with poetry, but every time I listen to a poet as inspirational as he is. It persuades me to keep on trying. Persuades me to find more inspiration to write about. Please if anybody has any tips, let me know. Btw I'm a male 18.
im 12 and ive just started writing poetry . my advice would be to redo/watch the thing that inspired you to do poetry . if it was a moment try to relive that moment each time you have douts
@@marynaswanepoel8364 how is it that 12 year olds nowadays seem to be wiser than those who are 18 to 30?
@@chado3000 idk man I'm 16 now and I also feel like sometimes younger people are wiser than adults. I often times find myself having to be the grown up when I'm around grown ups because they are so mentally immature. I actually forgot about that comment I posted though but still follow it. To this day I come back to this poem of his when I'm looking for inspiration. 🤣❤️
@@marynaswanepoel8364 🌹❤🌹
@@marynaswanepoel8364 "This is another reminder that the universe has already written the poem that you were planning on writing"
Words of gold. I now know that repetition is more than just a word that kept me going throughout my life as a musician and am thankful for this and for your conformation Phil!
every time... keep coming back when i feel there's no gravity in my life. thank you
My language arts teacher recently showed my class this video since we are working on poetry. I tried not to cry in class as this poem was so beautiful and it felt so close to home. Amazing job!
I love these poems that are almost shot in a 'music video' type of style. Obviously, I still love seeing people perform on stage, but there is something very intimate about the poetry and the beauty (and the absence of noise from an audience). And as always, Phil does an amazing job at sharing his stories through poetry :)
this is one of the most amazingly orchestrated pieces I've ever seen, I love this
I'm so in love with the way he recites this poem it's so beautiful
this is one of my favourite poems by him and this just makes it even more beautiful
I've watched it a thousand times and it still hits with the same intensity as the first. Brilliant work you guys
Everytime I come back here I wish I could like this again. It gets more beautiful everytime
Found this 3 days ago and watched it about 20 times. Gives me goosebumps everytime, but I should probably take the advice and chill out and stop playing this on repeat :3
Breath taking idea. Almost like semantic satiation. Words are strong. However used to the right way they can tear apart the world or bring hope to anyone and everyone. Thankyou!
I love the way he says I Love You
Proof that poetry isn't a dead art. I love this so much!
Enjoyed your poems. And your unique word choices enhanced the poems emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout.
I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor.
Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary:
Bashō’s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain.
~~
And my tanka:
returning home
from a Jackson Pollock
exhibition
I smear my face with paint
and morph into art
~~
-All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida,
Al
THIS IS MY FAVORITE POEM. And it's so wonderful seeing alive in this way. It warms my heart so
fate is a cruel but efficient tutor
loved it!
This poem is beautiful one of my faves
So inspiring. It shows that words are used without meaning. I love this so much.
Beautiful and inspiring - Phil Kaye has done it again. Thanks to button poetry for sharing.
Idk why I feel so cool after I listen to poetry but yeah this was pretty epic
One of my all time favorites.
Loved this, thanks so much to everyone who helped put it together!
this is so precious
So Phil and Sarah Kaye are brother and sister? If so that is awesome and it all makes sense and makes me love her and now him even more. I never knew Phil before now but I am so thankful for meeting him. This is such a deep, rich, emotion, and meaningful poetry piece. Sarah is my hero in the SLAM poetry world and now it looks like Phil is too. Again, like Sarah, Phil doesn't raise his voice and still manages to capture and make the emotional hits become so tangible that I can grab onto them. I want to see more.
They're not siblings. Watch An Origin Story.
Oh I am sorry, thank you for letting me know. I guess I saw a slight resemblance and with the name it was worth asking. Thank you for clearing it up any confusion.
+Patrick Shutt You're not alone, they explain that everyone thinks they're either siblings or married lol! It's just coincidence that they have the same surname. Sarah's actual brother's name is Phil aswell!
that was beautiful, the impact of gravity was immense, congratulations on this beautiful piece!
Probably my favourite poem ever.
Him and Sara Kay visited my school earlier this year, they were amazing
I love poetry
Speaking this for my class tomorrow 😬 little nervous because I can't do half as well as him 😊
They loved it.
Good job!
I love watchin this stuff. I'm so hooked.
Well, I'm crying.
So much underrated this poem is. 🥺🥺
Watching for the millionth time n still weeping
love from Malaysia. please keep this guys. I love u!
An inspiring talent. loved it.
A stutter, wow the irony. Doomed to repeat. For ever and ever
Ever and ever
Ever and ever
I'm so impressed
on my list of favorite poems
I've heard this poem so many times I'm not even kidding
Talented young man ❤
So beautiful.
BEAUTIFUL.
Total engagement. A walk along life's road in someone else's shoes.
So ma-ma-meaningful.
Wow. Just.. wow.
Every day I always find myself watching this video....
no words are stronger than words
My goal in life is to meet Phil Kaye and Sarah Kay
wow this is sooo deep
I am in love with Phil Kaye
I absolutely love how this has no dislikes
this poem is perfect to me
So powerful
This is gorgeous!
I've been waiting for this.
It was so powerful that maked me crying on the train.. As a stutter I always tried do explain people how does it feel and for the 1st time in my 20 years of life (and stutterness) I finally found something that is more about me than myself. Thank you.
Just... Wow!
i love this video in class
I think I might perform this in our school elocution. (Last year I did Neil Hilborn's _OCD,_ and came second, and this is less depressing so I may get the extra edge that way, ha)
Nazish Talati tell us how you do!!
I love this.
You are amazing, so amazing
My ELA teacher showed me this today for slam poetry.
This is so beautiful..
Brilliant...
Meaningful.
I love this so much
Beautiful
I love this guy 😱
Excellent!
This is beautiful.
I love your work
No matter how many times I watch this, the message is still powerful and makes me cry
The more I listen to this poem the less it begins to mean to me
love
I like it.
Lord. This poem means so much to me. Regardless of the different stories
I love these and him sooooo much
Wonderful
I performed the shorter version of Phil Kaye's Repetition a month ago for first impressions in school. A month later, I was the only one recognized by my adviser.
Out of tribute and love for this awesome poet I started posting his quotes in our inspirational bulletin board. And others loved him as much as well.
I have been studying poetry for a very long time. I admire your poignant words. What makes this more amazing is your youth.
this is really deep
So beautifully written. I couldn't stop listening.