Reading

The reading is the hardest bit
To finish it with out a fit
Of giggles from the waiting crowd
As I try to speak out loud

A poem that I know so well
I’m nervous yet I try to quell
The feeling I’ve forgotten it
I’ll have to make it up a bit

How did it go again ?
That verse about the rain
Just throw in an extra rhyme
To try and buy a little time

The poem that I tried to read
From my mind, it has been freed
And though I may have missed a bit
I think I got away with it






Contest : MY FUNNIEST POEM ON THE SOUP 
11th place
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Taylor Avatar
June 3, 2011 at 5:54 PM
Congrats on your win, Nick. Excellent piece. Nice going. Thanks for you kind words. Have a great weekend. Ralph
Brown Avatar
June 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved win in Poet Destroyer's contest Nick. Love, Carol
Mehta Avatar
June 3, 2011 at 6:20 AM
My congratulations on the win in the contest of p.d., nick
A  Avatar
June 3, 2011 at 6:16 AM
congrats on your excellent entry into the contest Luv*Skat
A   Avatar
June 2, 2011 at 10:40 PM
Nick, ~ CONGRATULATIONS!! In my contest, and thanks for always supporting my contest. I had a great time reading and judging every entry in my contest. Thanks for being among all my chosen winners. have a great one,.. Poet D.
Sweetheart Avatar
June 2, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Congrats Nick on your marvelous win with this witty write luv.. enjoy my friend.. super one..
Villanueva Avatar
June 2, 2011 at 8:05 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! really great... ^_^ ****jun-jun
White Avatar
March 20, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Ya ya did and it fits nicely
Sweetheart Avatar
March 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Re reading Storm.. focusing on the last line.. two people making love..horizontal rain .. storm clouds in the sky.. its raining while making love.. wind billowing outside during the passionate excursion of emotion... that is the way I am Reading it now that I read it again.. but I am italian so every poem has a bit of passion in it for me... let me know if I uncovered the inner meaning Nick.. luv.."Sweetheart"
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