Minimalism: A Kinetic Typography Poem

I’ve posted a video poem from the fabulous azrienoch aka Jeff Smith-Luedke before, which  featured a poem titled X vs. O. This time I am posting the video of another great poem using kinetic typography. Jeff used Adobe’s After Effects to create the video.

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X vs. O

Below is an awesome video of a poem called X vs. O, both by Azrienoch aka Jeff Smith-Luedke. If you like this, you should check out his site and YouTube channel. Awesome stuff!

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Keep reading for the lyrics to the poem.

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The Girl with Vomit Eyes

I’m a big fan of spoken word poetry and I wanted to share this one. The poet is Oscar S. Cisneros. The poem is called The Girl with Vomit Eyes. You can listen to him perform it by playing the audio file and the words are included below. Keep reading if you would like to read them along with the track.

The Girl with Vomit Eyes (written & performed by Oscar S. Cisneros)

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The Arrow and The Song

The Arrow and The Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Tulips

And tulips, children love to stretch
Their fingers down, to feel in each
Its beauty’s sweet nearer. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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