Slam Poetry: When I Was Thirteen

Spoken by her

When I was 13 I didn't believe 
that I was beautiful
so when people told me I was 
beautiful I wanted to look them 
in the eyes and ask them what 
that meant
what is beautiful, what do you
mean by that
but instead
I would smile and say thank you
because I don't want to come 
across as rude not accepting
their comment but how do you 
accept the compliment you don't 
understand, you don't believe my
entire life I never felt 
beautiful 
I was told I wasn't the point
that I believe that I wasn't 
because of the way that I look 
not because of who Iam because
of my appearance
I was not beautiful I looked in 
the mirror and thought that was 
all beauty could be when you can
see in a mirror is when I 
thought he was because the world 
around me was telling me that 
that is beauty
so when I looked in the mirror
and only saw things that I wish
I could change
I didn't feel beautiful I saw my
acne no gap between my thighs my 
discolored teeth
I didn't feel beautiful when 
someone would say something like
God doesn't make mistakes
I would want to raise my hand
and say well what about me what
about me
because I felt like a mistake I 
always felt like I couldn't feel
beautiful because every movie
every song that I heard told me
that I couldn't without the 
validation of others they would 
say you don't know you're 
beautiful but here Iam to tell
you that you are so that means 
that you are but why why can't I 
feel beautiful on my own 
that was until I realized that I 
can it all changed one day when
I was a library and a girl
laughed out loud at the book she
was reading
hi I thought to myself that is 
beautiful and it confused me for 
a moment because I wasn't
talking about her appearance
I ran home and looked in the 
mirror and ask myself are you 
beautiful and for the first time
in my life I responded with yes 
yes you are
I repeated it 10 20 30 times
until I was consumed with the 
thought I am beautiful I finally 
didn't see my appearance
I saw the people that I love
around me in a sea of support 
I said things in the world that 
make me happy I saw the little
things about me that makes me
unique and different from the 
rest of the people in the world 
of my finally felt beautiful 
I want to walk that night and 
name something beautiful about 
everything around me I could
finally see beauty and 
everything around me 
that was everything to me and if
I could tell them me that didn't
know her worth or the fact that  
she is beautiful 
anything it would be this some
people live their entire lives 
without knowing that they're
beautiful 
some people die with the thought
Iam NOT beautiful understand
that beauty is perception though
there is a dictionary definition 
of the word beauty beauty has no 
real definition because it is 
redefined everyday and you you
are a definition of beautiful
someone finds your laugh your
intelligence your thoughts and 
every little thing you don't
like about yourself beautiful 
and who are you to tell them 
they aren't you are blinded by 
your insecurities and hid away
by your fear but please try and 
no true beauty
because when I was 13 I wish I
knew
how beautiful Iam 


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National Poetry Slam Finals 2014 - "Say No" By Olivia Gatwood, Megan Falley

Spoken by Olivia Gatwood and Megan Falley

It is summer the smell of beer and hotdogs are
sweet in the air like the national anthem.

It's baseball season! And you love baseball and 
going to these games with your boyfriend.

And today it might be the perfect day

As you watch the little boys with their sticky 
grins  on their fathers shoulders.

As you watch all the happy people on the 
Jumbotron.

And then you see your own face and your
boyfriend down on one knee.

And then you see an engagement ring so big it 
blinds the screen.

And when when he looks at you, like he caught 
the home-run ball

And then you look up and see the thousands of 
people in the stadium rooting for you

To do it. To say yes!

This is for the woman who says no.

They will boo you as you run down the stadium 
steps because it will never be the wedding aisle.

Someone will throw popcorn at you because it will never be rice or confetti.

Someone will catch your wrist because it will never be the bouquet.

They will call you a villain, a bitch.

They will call you worse

They will curse the day you learned any other 
words besides

Yes

And sorry

The ones that think themselves kind will ask why
you couldn't just fake it for the screen.

Why you had to make "no" a public thing

There are little girls in the audience after all and 
you denied them their

FUCKING fairy tale

Someone will tell you now ex-boyfriend how 
undeserving you are.

How any sane woman would have loved that proposal.

And you must have not been shit anyway

Probably crazy, and he will nod

And somewhere a man calls a woman from 
outside his car window

"Hey sexy! Come closer"

She says "no"

"Cunt, you're ugly anyway!"

Somewhere a woman argues for a higher salary

And her coworker call her a bitch in the break 
room

Somewhere a woman's friends signed her up for
a makeover show

The audience laughs when she says she loves 
her sweatpants

The audience laughs when they throw them out 
anyway

Somewhere a girl is told that if she doesn't want 
to hear the song about rape

Don't listen to it!

But it follows her in the supermarket, the gym,
the girl's clothing aisle 

And now she knows all the words

Somewhere a woman is told to get naked at frat 
parties, she refuses

A boy with a kind smile puts his arm around her,
offers her a beer filled with the magic that erases

No

Her vocabulary, Iam 16 in the managers office 
of my first job

My boss, whispers a list of the things he will do 
to my body

I say "no" and he threatens my next paycheck.

My long term boyfriends bed, after having sex 5 
times already that morning

I say "no" and he says

"This probably isn't going to work"

Then Connecticut a girl is asked to senior prom by
someone other than her boyfriend

She says "no" and his knife blooms a corsage in 
her chest

California, a young virgin boy thinks about you
and the ones like you

The ones that said "no" and the audience that
boos

And the poor sucker who was owed something

then denied it.

And he cocks his gun



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Adhunik Song: Lyrics of heart-touching song.

Written by Achyut Gauli

न दुखाउ यो मुटु दुखी सक्यो ||

न बल्झाउ यो घाउ बल्झी सक्यो  ||

त्यो मनमा कतैनी बास नहुँदा

न खोज यो दिल रित्ती सक्यो ||

न खोज यो साथ गुमी सक्यो ||

चोट त्यो लाग्दा यो मुटु रुन्थ्यो

न रुवाउ यो मुटु रोई सक्यो  ||

न जलाउ यो छाती जली सक्यो ||

तिमीलाई भन्दै यो जीवन बित्दा

नहेर यो जीवन सिद्दी सक्यो ||

नहेर यो जीवन रित्ती सक्यो ||

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Gazal: International Anti-corruption Day (9th December)

Written by Achyut Gauli

खै कहाँ छ भ्रष्टचार म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन  ||
खै कहाँ छ तोड्फोड म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन् ||

सबै स्वाभिमनी छन सबैको आआफ्नै कामधन्दा छ
खै कहाँ छ बेरोजगार म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन् ||
हीजोको कुरा हो भुइचालोले गर्लम्मै घर ढालेथ्यो
खै कहाँ छ पुनर्स्थापना म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन् ||
देख्छुत केबल रत्न्नपार्कमा मागने देखछु रुवाबासी देख्छु
खै कहाँ छ चस्मा म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन ||

सुन्दैछु हिजोआज फेलहुने साथी मेडिकल पढ्दैछरे
खै कहाँ छ डाक्टर म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन् ||
अदालतदेखी सभासम्म र बिधालयदेखी प्रसासनसम्म
खै कहाँ छ प्रगती  म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन  ||
देख्छुत केबल ठुलाठुला महल देख्छु धनी जनता देख्छु
खै कहाँ छ गरीब  म त कतै देख्दै देख्दिन ||

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Bhawana: Unexpected to express

Written by Achyut Gauli

यो कस्तो अनुभब हुँदैछ अचेल्  ||
तिमलाई नी यस्तै भयोकी अचेल् ||

जब निदाउन खोज्छु दुइ आखा चिम्लि
धड्कन्को गती किन बढदैछ अचेल् ||
छट्पटीमै रातहरु किन  बितदैछ अचेल् ||

सपनीमा पनि कसैलाई खोजेझै
कसैको प्रतीछामा जीवन जिएझै
शरीरका कोशहरु किन चलमलाउदैछ अचेल् ||
एकोहोरो मन किन रम्दैछ अचेल् ||

लाग्दैछ ठुलो पुजारी हु कसैको
मनको ढुबाइमै ढुबने भिकारी हु कसैको
जीवन र मरणको सँगमा उभिए जस्तै
दुई आत्माको मिलन बन्दैहु कसैको ||
कामनाको सुन्दर प्रतिमुर्ती हु कसैको ||
चोखो ह्र्दएको प्यासी हो कसैको ||

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Gazal: related to Tikapur Hatya Kanda-Kailali

Written by Achyut Gauli

शान्ति यो देशमा गोली पड्काइन्छ ||
रगतको होली मान्छे जिउदै जलाईन्छ ||

माग हो की ठुलो राजनितीको खेल्
सोझा मुर्ख जनता भेडाबाख्रा बनाईन्छ ||

दुखमा को थियो साथी सब भुलेर
हान्छन भाला छातीमा गुन देखाइन्छ ||

भागय के लेख्यौ दैब तिमीले
दिन्दाहडै कोपिलामै गोली पीलाईन्छ ||

कसले के रोक्थ्यो हुकुम्को आदेश्
इतिहासमा दोश्रो कुरुछेत्र रचाइन्छ ||

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Gazal: Romantic Gazal (Ever Written)

Written by Achyut Gauli

एकान्तमा टोलाएछु तिम्लाई देख्येपछी ||
सपनीमा रमाएछु तिम्लाई देख्येपछी ||

चादनिमै हराउने चाह थिएन कहिल्यै
जिन्दगीमा हराएछु तिम्लाई देख्येपछी ||

लाखयौ फूलको फुल्बारीमा मन दिदादिदै
स्वोयूदधमा लजाएछु तिम्लाई देख्येपछी ||

गोपीनीमै रमाउने कृष्ण त होइन्
हरमौसममा रमाएछु तिम्लाई देख्येपछी ||

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Subhakamana: Shubhakamana sandesh

Written by Achyut Gauli

फूल जस्तै फक्री रहनु तिमी   ||
जुन जस्तै मुस्कुराइ रहनु तिमी  ||

खुशीले जिबन मा साथ न६ुटोस
चन्द्र ,सुर्य जस्तो सान
अनी धुर्ब तारा जस्तो मान होस् ||

जीवन तिम्रा सुगम बनुन सधै
हर्पल खुशी को सौह्यारद होस्
यही नै मेरो तर्फ बाट गजल प्रेमी प्रती शुभ कामना ||

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Gazal:Sometimes life doesnot go according to our will.

Written by Achyut Gauli

सोच्दा सोच्दै जिन्दगीमा आज टोलाए ||
समयको मारमा सपना आज गलाए ||

हो के जीन्दगी यो तनाब्को खेती
उतारच्ढाप बेबहार मा आज लोलाए ||

सानो होइन सोच कहिल्यै सधै बिशाल्
परिसथिती र समयले आज सेलाए ||

भन्छन सबै सपना दुख गरे पुरा
कहाँ छ सुखशान्ती खै आज बीलाए ||

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Gazal: Dual Sense love Gazal.

Written by Achyut Gauli

हुन्छ अरे रातपनि बिहानीजस्तै जबतिम्रो साथ हुँदा ||
हुन्छ अरे बुढेसकालपनि जवानीजस्तै जबतिम्रो साथ हुँदा ||

अल्ली लजालु उनी, अल्ली लजालु म, त्यो मध्यरातमा
हुन्छ अरे इतिहासपनि कहाँनीजस्तै जबतिम्रो साथ हुँदा ||

छौ दङ्ग ममा, छु दङ्ग तिमीमा, त्यो छोरा छ साथमा
हुन्छ अरे सपनापनि बिपनाजस्तै जबतिम्रो साथ हुँदा ||

हो एउटा युद्ध तिम्रो र मेरो अनि सुन्दर सृजनाको
हुन्छ अरे हारपनि जीतजस्तै जबतिम्रो साथ हुँदा ||

छ छुटै सुख त्यो बातको र रातको अनि त्यो ताजको
हुन्छ अरे दुखपनि सुखजस्तै जबतिम्रो साथ हुँदा ||

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Gazal:True reality of life.(Best Ever)

Written by Achyut Gauli

पराइ प्यारो लाग्छ अचेल, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||
स्वार्थी तेती हुन्नन जती, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||

सोझो मान्छे ठिक हुन्न फटा नै हुन्छन जाति
दुश्मन आखीर हुन्नन कोही, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||

मेरो बाउको बार्है टक्का अबिस्वास यो बढेपछि
मुर्ख मान्छे हुन्नन जती, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||

को हो असल को हो खराब बुझेका छन सबै
लाटो अरु हुन्नन कत्ती, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||

नहुनेलाई के मतलब धनको पोको भरेपछि
रुखो कोही छैनन जती, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||

को हो आफ्नो को हो पराइ अन्योल नै छ अझै
पराइ बरु मित्र हुन्छन, आफ्न्त यो भन्दाबढी ||

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