Reading With All My Senses

I often think, for best effect, poetry should be read aloud with good facial expressions and sincere intonation. For me this brings the poem alive.

We don’t usually say, “Have you read a good song latterly?”

Yes of course a poem isn’t always a song and a song isn’t always a poem but there is something about the spoken, or sung, word that affects me more than just seeing the written words on a page.

Hmm, that maybe because I am more often a non-reader than a reader.

I was reminded recently of a book review I handed into school as a child. It was from a book that had been read to me. A younger sibling had desperately wanted to read the ‘gem’ in my procession and I would only let her do so if she read it aloud.

It was the only book review I ever handed in!

Whether a poem makes you laugh or cry I feel it should always make you think.

The poem I have chosen for today is supposed to be funny but there is something a little bit deeper about it and that is the inadequacies one may feel when they don’t measure up to a standard set by someone who has never struggled through a learning difficulty.

Enjoy and for this one please read loud and fast!

Predicate Etiquette

Euphemisms, idioms, metaphors and similes

Spoonerisms, superlatives, syntax and redundancies

Do I need to know the meaning before I can write an essay?

Or is it just a screening test to keep my mind in disarray?

Positive, progressive, possessive or comparative

Expressive or imperative, reflective or a narrative

I’m so completely full of adjectives

(I think I need a laxative!)

Infinite and definite, predicate and irony

Homonym and acronym are they a form of tyranny?

If I could grasp the concept of the meaning of these terms

Would I be a better writer or an apple full of worms?

To intimidate or educate by passing an exam

Will it make me more intelligent or fill my head with spam?

I’d like to be impressive, expressive and compulsive

But the logistics of linguistics to me are just repulsive!