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SLAMpotion 2011 Rantoloko

Posted by Poetry Potion on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 In : National Book Week

SLAMpotion 2011 Winner - Nozipho Mdletshe

Posted by Poetry Potion on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 In : National Book Week

Born hustler by Ndumiso Sikhakhane

Posted by Poetry Potion on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 In : National Book Week

As the sun rise from east

Though it puncture no yeast.

Set in the west

Yet it juncture no worst.

Across diffusion as science have proven

Beyond variation as evolution have revolutionaries.

This is the formula formulated far from

Thee and thy, too far from human creation.

Words already flying to shake

Streams and steams,

Yet not started to recite

There’s a mist yet aint approve cold.

Truly it’s no man but true disaster,

Of no deterioration as the sky have witnesses,

Judges confesses.

Des...

I wanna fear the boogyman by Native

Posted by Poetry Potion on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 In : National Book Week

Afraid, of the boogyman
i want to be scared again; it is a frightening pain,
it is sane.
With my feet i cannot stumble
my lips dare not mumble.
I have met a new ghost, to which disillusion fails to host;
this time it is not the boogyman!
It is fear:
as it tours my psyche
it tears me apart,
it is fear inside me
sucking my blood, playing 'my heart'. But unlike the heart,
its beating has no rhythym echoing, living,
but its presence is killing.
This fear is of making choices
not of...
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Slampotion: How the show works

Posted by Poetry Potion on Saturday, September 3, 2011 In : National Book Week

The key factor about Slam is that the audience is the judge. They voice their opinion, vocally, by clapping and awarding scores.

Poets are judged for their performance ability as well as their writing ability.

We will use scorecards to award points to the points. At the beginning of the show a time keeper and a score keeper will be chosen. When poets go over time, they are penalised.

The highest and the lowest scores are thrown out. The poets with the lowest score are eliminated.