North Dakota Poetry Out Loud
Mya Tena: "Love Song"
4/14/2022 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
2022 ND State Poetry Out Loud champion Mya Tena recites "Love Song" by Dorothy Parker.
Poetry Out Loud is a high school program that encourages students to learn about poetry while they master public speaking skills and build self-confidence. Mya Tena, from Bismarck High School, is the 2022 North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud Champion. Listen as she recites "Love Song" by Dorothy Parker.
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North Dakota Poetry Out Loud is a local public television program presented by Prairie Public
North Dakota Poetry Out Loud
Mya Tena: "Love Song"
4/14/2022 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Poetry Out Loud is a high school program that encourages students to learn about poetry while they master public speaking skills and build self-confidence. Mya Tena, from Bismarck High School, is the 2022 North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud Champion. Listen as she recites "Love Song" by Dorothy Parker.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- My own dear love.
He is sweet and bold and he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold and his eyes are lit with laughter.
Love Song is by Dorothy Parker.
And that one I chose because it seemed like a lot of fun.
It's a woman talking about her past lover and she's praising him, but then she recognizes that, eh, I didn't really like him that much and I wish I never met him, I wish he were in Asia and I wish somebody to shoot him.
And I just thought that that would be something really fun to do.
Not that I feel that way at all in my relationship.
I'm not connected to the poem on an emotional level but the bit of performance that I have to do is a lot of fun for me.
Love Song by Dorothy Parker.
My own dear love.
He is sweet and bold and he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold and his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled.
Oh, a girl, she did not forget him.
My own dear love.
He is all my world and I wish I'd never met him.
My love, he's mad, and love, he's fleet.
and a wild young wood-thing bore him.
The ways are fair to his roaming feet.
And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems as the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams and I wish he were in Asia.
My love runs by like a day in June and he makes no friends of sorrows.
He'll tread his galloping rigadoon in the pathway of the morrows.
He'll live his days where the sun beams start, nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart, and I wish somebody'd shoot him.
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