Our practice group’s stuttering poetry « American Institute for Stuttering

Nov 25th 2009

Our practice group’s stuttering poetry

By Carl Herder, 1:02 pm

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Last night at our weekly support/practice group, three people attended. As it was a smaller group, I decided to spend some time on something creative. They were asked to write a poem about stuttering. Here’s what Kendra, Roisin and Nick wrote.

poem_kendra

Speak
Teach
Understand
Treatment
Talking
Express
Respect

poem_roisin

For me to stutter
Is to make myself so clear
as I ought to be.

poem_nick

There once was a kid who stuttered,
He really liked bread and butter,
he was very tall,
and lived in a mall,
Oh, the silly life of that boy who stuttered!

photo: tnarik

Comments (8)

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Anyone have a poem of their own to share?

Comment by Carl — November 25, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Hey these are awesome stuttering poems, would be nice to attend one of these groups.i dont have a poem of my own but heres one of my fav poems.
http://www.ustutter.com/forum/general-chat-7/a-poem-i-made-up/

Comment by jessi — December 1, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
from Norway:
My stuttering often comes out of the blue
But I’m blaming my fear of be speaking too
My emotions can tell
Some people quite well
How I deal with it, but the most have no tiny clue.

Comment by Astrid Bjerga — December 1, 2009 @ 10:14 pm
Jessi,
That’s a great poem as well. What an analogy, to compare stuttering to the one green potato chip in a bag. Thanks for sharing!

Comment by Carl — December 2, 2009 @ 12:59 am
I love the poem Astrid!!! Thanks for sharing it here as well. After you posted this on facebook earlier today, I wrote it on my white board in our office. The Tuesday night support/practice group loved it.

How did you learn about AIS?

Comment by Carl — December 2, 2009 @ 12:59 am
I learned about AIS by joining groups NSA and PSA on facebook, and by yours, mr Herder, status about AIS on facebook.I now got a contacts/network all over the world. Very fine to me, because I don’t know any other stutterer in Norway, and my network teached me a lot about technics and emotions. I’ve never received any therapy, but I made my own ways, and I’m doing very fine noow, but still some out of the blue. )

Comment by Astrid Bjerga — December 2, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Thanks for the reply, Astrid. Yes, the world wide web certainly enhances our abilities to connect with people who stutter all over the world!

I’d love to hear more from you. What are the techniques you’ve learned? What have you learned about the emotional side of stuttering? If you see this message, you are welcome to respond here, or start a new topic in the discussions tab of our Facebook Page.

Comment by Carl — February 8, 2010 @ 1:21 pm
I Still Stutter.
I think twice.
I say it over again,
thrice.

For now, it left —
exit stage right.

I strutted my
Renaissance onstage and claimed
me,
for the first time.

Aaron. Titus Andronicus.

My stage my mind my tongue
My audience
Listen!
I don’t need to speak
Until it suits me.

The stage is all conflict
The world is all conflict
I gotta suck in the conflict
Past the b.s. and disconnect

And I stutter and spit as I
begin to tell the truth
Because I know I’m right
And I stop sputtering
Because I know I know

now.

Comment by Jerod — February 26, 2011 @ 5:22 am