Pages Matam | Looking for Your Voice? A Poetry Slam Champ Shows You How | TEDxZumbroRiver 

I love the way he kept switching from speech to spoken word so effortlessly

“I want to grow up to become a cigarette bc that is the only thing my father doesn’t abandon” wow. Feels.

He's got poetry in his blood

Possibly the most underrated Ted Talk

I believe poets are born to slay a verse. A poet's talent comes natural, not commercialized. But that's just me.

listening to this help me gain my poems to a high level instead of hold my words in

My heart is crying, hands applauding, head is nodding and face is smiling right now!! Love this gentleman's message :)

That's seriously one of my favorite TED talks of all time

“Ain’t much God left in this world , but treat the world like there is plenty God left in you”😩

This is really good slam poetry, proud to be a Cameroonian. Thanks for posting.

4:06 "a h-a-t-e-r is just a person with their h-e-a-r-t all jumbled up" just beautiful

That right there... so good. Spoken from the hearth, well done sir. "°"

Thanks god she's alive and well to see that you made it.... She must be a great mother

Thank you. I paused this at 11:07 and wrote the first poem I've written in months. I appreciate the beautiful inspo.

This is the best spoken word performance I have ever heard 🤧😩🥲

This Audience too quiet... I'd have been reacting and stomping, clicking and everything!!!!!! Yesss for this man1!1! Yes Pages!!!!

I always thought I wrote from the heart; I will release more honesty in my writings after hearing this, thank you TED Talks! and Mr. Matam

I’m an actor, singer, dancer and an author I’ve written several poetry books but…DAMN I loooooove to hear spoken word and I would love to be as great as him 😊

So much metaphor, culture, vibe, spirit. Thank you, Pages, for your art, your journey, and your awareness.

Yaaaas! Snap! Snap! Thank you brother!

Wow, wow, wow…. you can feel the appreciation for all of life’s lessons in his tone, you can feel the vibrations that resonate in his bones, and in all the colorful language, you can find healing in his voice alone. Glad I found this. ✊🏿💕🌞

Stunning artistic performance.

His name is Pages. And he writes. Wonderfully.!! He is amazing

This young man is brilliant!

how does this only have 2,000 views??

“200 ways to say love” this mans words hold so much strength. Seamless transitions from what was to what is to what he wishes to come.

Good god, this is powerful. One of the best Ted Talks I've ever seen.

"200 dialects. 200 ways to say love, family...."

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

OMG this guy is amazing!!!!!!🤩

the forked poet capable of many different avenues of the storytelling gene

Awesome. Listend to many times. Taught me do much about poetry I strive to embrace.

He is a BEEEAAAST‼💞

Now I know exactly what I want in a man.....no hay palabras

'Those that cant show love need it the most'

Wow! I am so inspired after watching this. Thank you, Pages Matam!

Proudly Cameroonian 🙏🙏👌🏽👌🏽

This is absolutely breathtaking and I am soooo happy I heard it

Omg, you had me bawling. “Oh, America, show us your papers!” 😭👏🏻👏🏻

Wow this is incredible. More people need to see this.

This is amazing

Why am I now just hearing of this man but I've heard of all the lil and 6ix 9ine and other rappers/artists?

This is gorgeous

Inspiring... I wish to be a spoken word artist one of these days.

I am.humbled.and grateful to you for this fantastic poem about me.

Beautiful from beginning to end! Wow

Still one of my favorite poems

Poetry master. So beautiful

What a beautiful soul

Fantstic style, noticing the gradual shift in between the public speaking and the slam!

I am trying to learn how to write a poem . And his speech made me cry.

This was amazing. Thank you for posting/sharing.

That right there... so good. Spoken from the hearth, well done sir. "°"

simply amazing!

That is powerful! Incredible! 🤩

The best of the best!!! Raw talent! I hear you, bro!

Awesome, I can't stop watching

this was amazing!!!! so inspiring!!

Wow. Just Wow. 👏👏👏

Pages Matam got cosmo and Wanda

I absolutely love this man's mind

Wow he’s amazing 🙏🏼🙌

My Lord, this Pages is the absolute king! This is one of my favorite Ted Talks. The way he weaves and threads words, themes, mores....... Brilliant! Moving! Touching! Teaching! Inspirational! Poignant!

Very eloquent. He never bored a second

Beautiful spoken word

This is probably the 100th time I come back to watch this!

“There ain’t much God left in this world but treat this world like there is plenty of God left in you.” Wow.

That guy is packing

Bravo !

Yoo that's my hometown S/O to 507 to the 612 Minnesota stand up

this is art

Great Poem!

There's so much truth in what he's saying.

he was so poetic sometimes that he decided to lighten the mood in fear of swirling the peoples minds

He's incredible. I'm blessed to be able to hear and learn from him. Thank you!

❤❤❤ thiiiiiiiiisss!!

huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu keep ut man, its our winds to fly with

Fucking Beautiful!

He was excellent

"The backwash of a dream" wow this was FIRE

Those who show you no love are usually the ones who need to see it the most.

beautiful

Beautiful

“For as long as I could remember, I have always felt like a man constantly in reverse, like the backwash of a dream, like karmas favourite crash test dummy” 7:17

My absolute very poem of all time 💕💕💕

wow i admire the strong passion for poetry.

It’s really inspirational ❤

👌🏾Simply incredible💯

Pay attention........Pages is the best‼️‼️‼️

I Love this wow, what a poet, salute.

This deserves way more likes.

Just Phenomenal

Thank you Mr Matam!

I got set this as a homework

Incredible story.

thank you

I admire the passion that he shows The words he sings out loud; and Tender movements of ten Fingers - up and down, outwards and above The tree-leaf sleeves and tree-trunk shoes.

Great!

Wow!!!!! Aye! He is so good!

OMG!! …Loved This! Loved the natural teaching and ministering flow. Powerful message.