Time || Spoken Word by Kurt Schröder
Time || Spoken Word by Kurt Schröder
‘Time’ by Kurt Schröder
An Emote Record Company Production • Produced by Simon Strehler • Recorded at Pretoria, South Africa
Scoring and Additional Recording by Paul Elliott
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Simon Strehler
© 2013 Kurt Schröder, Emote Record Company
℗ 2013 Emote Record Company
This touched me
Hey Kurt/Emote Record Company,
This is a really nice piece! my name is Thomas Zeman im a filmstudent from the Netherlands. Right now im working on a project called ”Time” i found this poem and it matches the footage i made pretty good. is there a chance that i can use this spoken word track without background music in my video? unfortunately i don’t have much to offer because i don’t earn lots of money with filmmaking but i can offer a really nice place in the end credits! Im only posting it on my Vimeo channel and my intentions are not to generate money with the video.
greetings,
Thomas Zeman
awesome! just stumbled upon this and noticed the accent! local talent! you inspire me
I am learning to be grateful for each moment
But I’m well aware that this today
is very quickly joining the history class full of yesterdays so friends before it does
allow me to share something with you
Time. It can fly. And promises to heal all of our wounds.
We try to make it, save it, kill it and there is never enough of it
Time. It’s what stops everything from happening all at once.
Making sense of past into present into future, it’s later and it’s sooner.
Time. is what measures the duration of pain and of joy and of everything in between
and its awful but it’s lovely and it’s gracious and then it’s mean.
Time. Is like the wind. It lifts the light to float with it
while leaving the heavy to curse the rushing breeze.
And I’m really convinced that time stops when you really have to sneeze.
Time it seems to rule all aspects of our lives A
nd has been the endless fascination for every creed and nation
throughout all of time
Its seems to vary from place to place
Personally I have yet to face a space where it does not intermingle and interlace itself into everything
and the mysterious thing is that time is completely personal
But then entirely public
Each second is scribed only to you
But that self-same moment is for the rest of us too
So it doesn’t matter who you are or what you pursue
Time does not discriminate so do not misconstrue
We all face life at sixty minutes and hour
And then time seems to pester only man
Because bird and bee seem so free from the tick-tock time bomb mentality
that plays through you and me you see a hummingbird
can flap its wings ninety times in a single second
Those wings are spun of silver, emerald, and gold
And these tiny little creatures are hearts to behold
Angelic features and colors so bright they propel imagination to a new delight
There is magic in the way that they flick through the sky
They appear and they vanish in the blink of an eye
But if you think that’s impressive friend,
You’ll consider they fly
Because those buzzing buggers beat their wings more than one thousand times a second
Now I’m no fan of a fly, but none can deny that is pretty impressive
Then it also makes sense that the average mayfly has a lifespan of maybe more than
thirty minutes
And if I were ever limited to such extent I could only ever be content by
Cramming every minute with sixty seconds well spent
And so that begs the question
How are you spending your time?
Allow me to suggest that you stop
Stop waiting for some dream day when you get your fresh start
Let loose the wild things you’re keeping locked up in your heart and
Stop hoping to make it if you do nothing about trying
Because we are all headed towards death
So what are you doing about dying
Stop talking about killing time
While time quietly kills you
Talk is cheap
And every second is as precious as life itself
And so my friends,
Thank you for spending a little of your life with me
I love this poem
omg yes…i needed this..totally inspireddd! <33 IG: Sawpoetry
honestly poems like this are the things that make me a better person
that was a masterpiece!
Great poem! I showed this to my English 12 class in conjunction with our reading of Ralph Hodgson’s "Time, You Old Gypsy Man".
Mooi German man
I would like to purchase this track on mp3 but the links don’t work. Anyway I can still buy a copy?
LUV it!
"Time grinds even mountains to dust."
This is perfect
Spending a little of my time with you? I’d spend forever. He’s really attractive, and I loved the poem. Fascinating and dug deep.
thank you for making my time well spent. This video has made me rethink what i have really been doing with my time.
AMAZING
Wow beautiful
I come back to this video every couple of years. I still love it.
Inspirational words
Seems like only yesterday that I first watched this video. Where does the time go, honestly? It flies by because, more often than sometimes, we allow it to. God, time goes by so fast. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. Carpe Diem
Very good! love the meaning and the words in the poem
The mayfly verse made me realise how I’ve wasted so much time.
Is he south african???? Sounds south african! Would be epic if he was!
always come back to this a few times a year.. so many thoughts & feelings are generated. Astounding and inspiring.
you are welcome. Time well spent with you.
This is amazing!! Would love if you could watch my spoken word video. Will subscribe to accounts that subscribe to me. Take care, Chelsea 🙂
This was shown to us by our Lit. Prof.
This is a great and wonderful poem. I will never get tired of watching this all over again.
Thank you … I Love it so much.
time waits for no man
I’m writing a poem on the same topic!
well said and done
brilliant!
For anyone that loves poetry, and has also had a broken heart, check out my poem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMH6ziiFznU
My dance studio Art In Motion had a choreographed dance to this shown at my recital and throughout North America at competitions this is a beautiful piece
bare truth
Any chance this is downloadable or available for purchase?
Best description of time ! 🙂
So good to see South African’s taking on Spoken Word!! :d <3
Absolutely breathtaking. You have power in your words that can change many. Thank you for sharing your thoughts
dumbfounded by the lack of views
Is there a place where I can purchase an audio file for this?
Lyrics plz?
Hey guys! Im 16 and do spoken word as well! it’ll mean the world to me if you just checked my videos out, they’re really short but extremely meaningful. God Bless you guys!
I feel like this has changed my life in some way
I can watch this over and over again , keep coming back , even after months . just beautiful
I’ve heard of few of Kurt Schroder’s work and I can say I’m a fan of this man, there’s a delicate touch to this mans work
Love this . Would appreciate your guidance with regards to music for a spoken word video I’d like to make. My musician friend has read the poem, and I’ve alos recorded myself speaking it for his reference. We were wondering about whether to shoot this with him playing liive next to me, as opposed to just giving home the footage and asking him to compose it after the final edit is done, in whcih case then he would nto be in the video. Im just wondering if I were to shoot minus the music I may say it differently since I dont have the music to kinda react to.(soorry too many questions)
I love this video! Thumbs up if you do!
I make spoken word as well, my latest one is on my channel and it is called "Have we killed beauty?"
Be sure to watch, I wont let you down 🙂
bro you forgot your shoes