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by pyuser583 1414 days ago
It hasn’t created any content in over six years, but I still really, really recommend: https://youtube.com/user/SpokenVerse

It’s the most beautiful recitations of poetry you will ever hear, especially if your someone who usually doesn’t like poetry.

One cool part is the creator is completely anonymous. Modern YouTube is so big on self promotion - this guy is the exact opposite.

He just lets the poems speak for themselves.

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Thank you for sharing. I listened to a wonderful poem linked below. The author wrote it for his son when he turned 12. On a sad and tangential note, years after this poem was published, he “pulled strings” to get his son to serve in WW1. His son died and he later wrote: “If any question why we died / Tell them that our fathers lied.”

https://youtu.be/tK4HDCIr_E8