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Reading Poetry Out Loud
My wife has gone out
with a girlfriend for the day,
so I sit and read
some of my favourite poems
out loud. Really loud!
Reading a poem out loud
brings out the musicality
of the piece.
I let my lungs rip into Larkin,
then follow with a foray
into Masefield's "Mother Carey."
I stop for tea and a toasted tea-cake
before resuming with
Bukowski's "Bluebird."
Then I venture into
Voltaire's vivid and varied verse.
I finish with a little levity,
letting out my inner lampoon,
laughing like a lunatic
at Lear's Limericks!
Then my wife arrives home
and asks, "What have you
been doing with yourself?"
"Oh, just reading quietly
in the corner,"
I reply.
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Copyright © Robert Haigh 2017
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