The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55428   Message #863540
Posted By: Naemanson
10-Jan-03 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: Recitations Anyone?
Subject: RE: Recitations Anyone?
Yeah Clueless, that was the poem that Kendall posted above, The Night Charlie Tended Weir.

I do a few recitations. I have Ruth Moore's Ballad Of Three Waves and C. Fox Smith's Ships That Pass already in my head. I also learned Banjo Paterson's poem of being forced to drink some home brew but I've forgotten that one.

I like doing them but I usually perform as a member of a group and the other guys tend to dislike listening to the stories they've heard before. Plus the recitations I've been doing are fairly long and I feel self-conscious about it. Three Waves can take up to 6 1/2 minutes.