Three year olds can wreak havoc on a home, and the precocious ones can recite poetry too. Here we have a toddler reciting Billy Collins’ poem “Litany” (find text here) and also some lines from Lord Alfred Tennyson (while dressed as Superman, of course). It’s good fun, right up there with actor Bill Murray reading Collins poetry at a construction site in New York City…
via Neatorama
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This is the best!
He is such a natural and so unselfconsciously apt. I looove this little tyke who utterly captivates me!
Prime example of what poetry is not about.
What? Who is anyone to know or to say what poetry is “about”. Only a pretentious 20 something would utter such nonsense. It is language and life and this child is both!
hes so adorable
That’s amazing!
And Nicolas, below, is clearly an idiot.
Nicolas, you are an idiot. River and Annie and Jessica, right on!
Just lovely. And what a lovely mum. xx