Yesterday was undoubtedly one of the best days of my life. This was because of two major events –
- I met a blogging friend in real life for the first time ever.
- I performed spoken word poetry live on stage in front of an audience at a theatre in an urban music show.
I really can’t believing I’m telling you this. It still all feels totally and utterly surreal.
Note – I’ve written a lot about this ‘spoken word poetry’ and I’ve suddenly realised that a lot of you probably have no idea what I’m on about. You know when something’s, like, the centre of your world? Well, you don’t really think about other people not understanding it or not having heard of it, do you? That’s how I feel.
Anyway, spoken word poetry is basically poetry that is written to be performed. It’s extremely similar to something called ‘slam poetry’. You may have heard of that.
I love love love spoken word. It is how I express myself. It is what I feel born to do and when I was up on that stage yesterday, I felt confident, I felt like I belonged. When I looked around the theatre and saw all those people here, listening….and then I looked at all the new friends I’d made sitting there, watching me, as well as some very special people right in the front row (more on that soon 😀), I felt so happy and so content and so….like I’d found myself. Weird, I know, but true. It’s impossible for me to describe the feeling – belonging, maybe? Or ecstasy? Lol.
Sadly, when my Mum tried to record during the performance, she didn’t manage to get it (instead she got a very blurry photo – don’t ask 😝)However, she very kindly agreed to film me performing both pieces again today. Here it is –
Oh, hold on, before you watch. If you want to hear more about the show click HERE!!!
Bonus photos below!

A very excited, energetic me before a day of train journeys and rehearsals left me an exhausted wreck.
Now, the blogosphere and ‘the real world’ are two completely different universes and two different identities for the blogger and, although I’ve always dreamed about what beautiful things might happen if these collided, I never once thought they would.
I was wrong.
A few weeks ago I was writing about my show (and gushing about how excited I was) when a very lovely human left me a comment. I quote:
Is the thing in London something you book for? Because honestly, I’d love to come and see it. No joke. Love you lots xxx
And my reply?
Oh my goodness {you totally should come and see it} Yesssssssssssss!
And so yeah! It happened. And it was absolutely incredible, better than I ever could have imagined. I got to meet and hang out with the AMAZINGGGGG Elm!!!
Oh and btw, this all happened on her 3 year blogoversary so get on over to her and wish her a good one, please!
I would like to thank her and her lovely friend who I also had the pleasure of meeting for being such fantastic humans and for supporting me throughout my performance. You guys really made me day – you deserve loads of love. Actually, this post is dedicated to you.
In a way, this post is a collaboration with Elm, she will be posting later on about her experience as an audience member so watch out for that.
Thank you to everyone who wished me luck or sent me messages of support before my performance. Loadsa love to you all.
I think that’s all, yeah. I’ll stop rambling now. Peace out, guys.