Short Recitation Poems

Short Recitation Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Recitation by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Recitation by length and keyword.


Premium Member An Ode 2 Recitation

instead of just viewing ingest the words proudly taste them all -- chewing when you read aloud-ly
Form: Verse


Premium Member Midweek Recitation

Simple symbols of self expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour ..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Clerihew Mceachran

Frank Mceachran a Cambridge don
poetry was lifelong song
He advocated recitation in 'spells'' size
Remembered now for his annual prize
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Giotto

The 'I am' Giotto of Poliziano
a monument to the artist ego
He claimed his art equalled poet Dante
only recitation & contemplation can say
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member DECEMBER recitation


A.Sunday morning- August Kleinzahler  

a craftsman, a maker of lines
      stands out from the crowd
                        if read aloud
Form: Verse


Parish the Thought

In Llanbadarn-y-garreg, mid-Wales
There lives a preponderance of males
But Saint Padarn's church
Would never besmirch
Recitation of old fairy tails
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Weekday Recitation

HEAVENLY KISS XL1


My dynamic paraphrase  translation excerpt of one of Quirinus Kulhmann's (A Christian sonneteer) series depicting the union of the soul with Christ
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Mid Week Recitation

shapes
          adjacent
subliminal postures
in elements
              of purity:
a surfeit of harmony
shards of enlightenment
minute observations
luminosity articulated

Premium Member Midweek Recitation

nothing moves,
silence!
echos of voices,past
awake!
faces appear,then
depart!
a tear trickles,
slowly!
the music plays,
faintly!
emotion erupts,
again!

regret whispers,
in pain!

Premium Member The Big Event

Dangling diligently daring Debbie’s duos tries
Testing twin trapezes two ton Tony dies
did dangling Debbie dilgently try?

Comments from audience upon recitation.
"Meow" "Purrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Premium Member Orchid Phalaenopsis-Broken Monoku Haiga

statuesque beauty-
                           stillness, frozen in time 

You may see this haiga of mine(and other artwork) and listen to recitation of much of my PS work on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro
Form: Monoku

Which Doctor

Reciting prayers,
Body splayed across the floor,
Reaching for heaven.

Knees gnarled and bent,
Mouth calloused from oration,
Hands clasped tightly shut.

Passionless faith is,
Just ceaseless recitation,
Magic doomed to fade.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Weekday Recitation

Craft me a tiffany
that others may see

Cut out a matisse
for my mantle-piece

Throw me a pollock
to which others will flock

Abstract me a rothko
I can keep on show

Sculpt like epstein
this profile of mine

Draw like da vinci
a portrait  of me
art
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Recitation Today

SOUND WORDS

novel.  
            not new
temporal
                but true
invented
               not found
fragments
               of words
seen..spoken..
                  ....    heard
apart from
                  the crowd

a happening
                      aloud

Premium Member Weekday Recitation

Alone for a moment
 measuring
sound
Frozen pieces
in a
particular way
to wonder 
about
myself
To relax for hours
 as in
a childish dream
and revolve 
in
all directions
this prolongment
of self
limp..lonely..lost….
then
instantaneous
three pieces in form
with picturesque preludes 
I open my mind
 notice
&respond

Premium Member Cheep!

I speak to you of wonderful trees
and of butterflies and bees...Cheep!

Who let this bird into my poem?
Catch him, and to the door, let's show 'im...Cheep!

Until we control the situation, 
I cannot continue my recitation...Cheep!

Nervous twitching, restless mumbling,
an audience to a performance humbling...Cheep!

All because the poet forgot one word.
He said bee and butterfly, but not bird...Cheep!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Mid Week Recitation

JMW TURNER pre impressions 

fluid skies
wash
surreal
              scenes
from the horizon,
clouds
            rise
             light from sunsets
abides,hides
swirl rides
          above
          the sea

highly wrought
    strange
          &daring
translated
transcribed
      views

        naturalistic
inner visions
interpreted
the
      intense

revealed

derived
from reality
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Tiresias

The man who spurned two love-wrought snakes 
   In reptilian copulation
      The blind seer, auspicious he
   And his clairvoyant recitation.

Born a male and died a man
   But for committing a transgression,
      Lived some years on the distaff side
   In a feminine intercession.

At the moral of the auger's tale,
   The head, interspecting, nods:
      We should take an active role
   In abiding by the gods.
Form:

Poetic Soul

My keyboard is an extension of my soul; every key I punch reveals muted intimacy by contriving words and phrases given voice through recitation. An intimacy in peril especially in poetry where I lay bare emotions and thoughts to catholic criticism. Nevertheless, I do not write expressively for consensus; if I did, the first bad review would force me to give up writing and seek a different endeavor.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Towards Abstraction An Ekphrasis

Sundrenched scenes fusing space and light..
Abstraction ,fantasy and dreams.Images
transformed with intimate freshness.
Tranquillity of shimmering light
saturating the everyday garden scene
incandescent,yellow,red and green.

inspired by the Impressionist garden painting exhibition 

Hear my recitation of much of my PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro ..and

read  my short forms @strandpoet on twitter
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member DIALECT RECITATION poetry reading


Aye 'ee is fierce and hale.
Four mile to work,across the vale;
No slommakin' slattern 'ee,
Okkard as an itching flea.

Eee'd fetch hosses to boss's yard,
Garmed with mud,as thick as lard,
Cla'holt of 'em wiv a rope,
On is own,allus could cope.

Niver sees 'im vexed,or aggled,
Even if drenched and bedraggled;
In lightning 'e wore niver frit,
Though the whole sky wore fork-lit.

Grew peas that kidded well,
Allus 'ad a tale to tell.
Form: Bio

Premium Member Symbiosis Strike

Your vision, Your vision. The recitation of a poem of metaphor. And the blink means a throng. Standing and clapping, clapping and clapping. The world remains in grief. Who's forgetting that?!? Death is the same as rain, on either hand. What is happening in the waterways. What's happening. Just eat us. Just eat us. The bread that's reddish. Who watered it. Who irrigated it. And who complains around the misery?
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A Triple Godsend

The late dear Carolyn Devonshire
a poetry souper who did not retire
A contest contestant to her very end
peer poet par excellente,& good friend

Carrie Richards is her pen name
as a prolific winner brought her fame
Introduced me to recitation aloud 
with youtube clips to wow the crowd

Debbie Guzzi a P S 'great'
coming  here in 2008
A learned female Barnabas
challenging me to extend my compass

An entry on Dec 4 to Sotto Poet's latest contest
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Weekend Recitation

SURREAL FEEL
I looked,I saw an image blue
a memory,fleeting yet true,
midst the black,white and grey
just awaiting me to portrait;
I tried to re-capture this dream,
reality's not how it seems,
it flows & ebbs as morning mist,
just out of reach,shadows persist;
A high sun then dazzles my eyes,
frustration,streams out soundless sighs,
forever lost,this unique insight,
when suddenly,I start to write
Creative words,so surreal
will my little song appeal ?

Premium Member Third Grade Recitation

My cousin and I were dismayed
By the kids who were in her third grade
They had no answers to tell
Though they spoke very well
And knew how impressions were made!

They earned an A+ for endurance
For displaying remarkable effluence
They could babble all night
With no fact in sight
Nor any sign of congruence! 

Oh, how wise we thought that we were
We could see their minds were a blur!
But now, mid-elections
And selfie confections
We see why they were so sure.
Form: Burlesque

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