"No Mistakes“ by Kyli Santiago || Spoken Word Poetry

"NO MISTAKES" - an insightful poem explaining the nature of mistakes from Kyli Santiago's second poetry book "An Inspired Poet." Although it’s a short piece, “No Mistakes” contains a lot of wisdom. Feelings like guilt, regret, remorse and shame are all related to the idea of making a mistake. And all of these feelings and feelings like these, keep you focused on the past. When you are focused on the past, it is impossible to move forward in your life – when this happens you are creating your own personal ‘hell’ on earth. Forgiveness and acceptance (of yourself and others) are the only ways to be released from the past. And once you’ve done this - you can begin to make better, more responsible decisions in the future. To get more from Kyli Santiago - be sure to check out the Mama'swork website: http://www.mamaswork.com Also, you can view more original spoken word poetry videos & powerful original quotes directly on our website: More spoken word videos - http://www.mamaswork.com/press/index.php/creative/spoken-word-poetry/ Original poetry quotes - http://www.mamaswork.com/press/index.php/creative/quotes/ ABOUT AN INSPIRED POET: Staying true to form, Kyli Santiago’s second book of poetry “An Inspired Poet” is deeply insightful, thought-provoking and definitely does not disappoint! Having overcome her thirty-plus year battle with depression, we join Kyli in the next stage of her journey to mental and emotional freedom. No longer living in the darkness of mental impairment, the poet undergoes a true spiritual awakening - and the pieces in this wonderfully thoughtful and perceptive collection will give you the chance to experience this awakening right along with her. Now of clearer perception and sounder mind, Kyli is free to ask questions about life and the higher forces that govern it – the answers that she accounts through her poetry will definitely intrigue you and spur you into deeper thought about your own life’s journey. Reading “An Inspired Poet” will not only entertain you, but it will make you think more critically and even alter the way you perceive, approach and experience your own life. It is an absolutely powerful collection of poetry that is sure to change you! THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POETRY AND MUSIC: As we all know, there has always been a historic connection between poetry and music. Through the ages, much poetry was performed to music. Music is definitely poetry. And vice-versa. When examined more critically, the art forms of music and poetry are almost synonymous: consider that a poem evokes, passion, love, hate, anger, loss, sorrow. Music, even without lyrics can bring across the same emotions. When you add lyrics or poetry to the music, a story emerges - which then enhances the meaning and emotion, making it a song. Poetry like music exists to allow for the expression of human emotions and very often, people can connect through music or poetry by understanding a shared feeling that is otherwise difficult to express. Another similarity that exists between music and poetry, is that songs themselves have to be rhythmic. The same is true about the flow of a poem. Rhythm is what makes music as well as poetry. Poetry is about flow, rhythm, meaning and expression. Instrumental music expresses, flows and shows just as much emotion as music does with words.