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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Submitted by RobertHaigh on August 04, 2020

Modified on April 02, 2023

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Scheme XAXXB BCX XAC XXX DX CXXX XDX CXX A
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Characters 710
Words 130
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 1

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