Voice
Poem: Voice
What you want to say
What you need to say
How are you to say it
Excuse me please
I’m not down on my knees
A penny for your thoughts
In exchange for one or two of mine
Once upon a rhyme…
OI!
ARE YOU LISTENING?
Review: Voice
The Voice! Available in many languages and accents, the expressive and natural communication tool that is the human mouthpiece with its sound!
A voice is important to all especially to poets and script writers, the wordy artists! The words need to confidently leap off the page and present themselves to the hearts and minds of the listener or reader. Words connect and voices are powerful!
The poet’s voice starts with an instruction of how it’s done and is saying it in three small steps. Ok, it sounds simple enough, I’ll give it a go, this mini lesson on how to be a poet. (Oh, how I’m laughing inside as it’s rude to laugh out loud at this!)
Step 1.The want
Step 2.The need
Step 3.The how
Sounds like the poet is warming up before the poem has started to be read to an audience. The poet is being polite with saying ‘please’ at the start but immediately says next that they are not going to beg for attention! That’s a bit blunt and maybe a bit cocky? Or is it? Surely poet, you’re going to need all the ears you can get, no? You don’t want to put anyone’s nose out of joint! Ears are just as important as the mouth with the voice! I was with you poet when you were being polite… and… I still am because I am curious to see where you’re going to take me with this. I’ll hang around for a few more of your lines. I can be polite too.
The poet is continuing to warm up by instigating a conversation. How quaint. How cool, How confident that it is to be reciprocated… hmm
The poem starts with “Once upon a rhyme…”
I’m expecting something to come along and to be met with captivating cadence but I don’t get the chance to settle into it and I’m met with the poet’s abrupt reaction to the audience!
The poet isn’t getting anything back from the audience
Politeness has gone well out of the window
The poet raises their voice and shouts oi! in an attempt to get attention!
This, I find hilarious. The poet has resorted to an instinctive ‘plan b’
to get noticed and to make the audience feel they are rude by not listening.
May I just say to you poet, “OI!” It’s worked on me, your ‘Oi!’, I have noticed you but I was paying attention in the first place.
This little poem is fun and a good lesson on how to be and not to be bold.
The contrast of what I was expecting to what I got in the end, as the reader, has lassoed me in. It’s how you did it!
A piece of theatre.
I have been charmed.