Robbie Cheadle reads! Poetry Treasures 2; Relationships
Why I enjoy poetry anthologiesI am over at D Avery’s lovely blog with a post about why I like poetry anthologies and reading of three poems from WordCrafter Poetry Treasures 2:Relationships anthology. D Avery is a contributor to the anthology and I’ve read one of her poems, A Jar, as well as The Red Petticoat by Elizabeth Merry and She lives yet she is dead by myself.
By Robbie Cheadle
I have always enjoyed reading poetry. My love started with nursery rhymes which I read repeatedly when I was a child. I had some personal favourites including The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly, and Who Killed Cock Robin. My enjoyment of nursery rhymes developed rather naturally into a delight in poetry.
When I was at school, we were made to learn certain poems off by heart. This was required for both English, my first language, and Afrikaans, my secondary language.
Astonishingly, some of the poems I learned impacted me so much, I can still recite them. Do you recognise these lines?
“When you hear it languishing
and hooing and cooing, and sidling through the front teeth,
the Oxford voice
or worse still
the would-be Oxford voice
you don’t even laugh any more, you can’t.”
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