Hounslow Green Party is bursting with talented poets!!
Here is a brief selection of poetry (and doggerel) that has delighted me this week. Please attempt not to be offended. Blame the original writers whose works have influenced our Poet Laureates
On reading Betjeman’s ‘Views of the Town Clerk’ by JOHN BAKER
Let’s turn our thoughts to Brentford first
Of tedious towns among the worst
The clearing work is nearly done
Historic buildings have all gone….
We should have trees, the Greens will cry
So plant with Ash! it soon will die…
Help Putin fund his squalid war
Approve gas guzzling Ballymore…..
A statue is needed in the square
Steven Curran surely should be there….
Entice the stinking cads from Slough
Brentford suits them better now…
The Grime of the Ancient Mariner by TONY FIRKINS
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy water quality.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch’s oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.
And some in dreams assurèd were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
The River Brent followed us
From the land of mist and snow.
….and here’s one from me!
SUV by Jon Elkon
What a joy is is to see
A silly prick in an SUV!
With a flick of mastery
He’s looking down at you and me
Such pretentious rickery!
What a joy it is to see
A dummy mummy in an SUV
Soooo much room for baby Gee
Looking down at you and me
It’s a world-defying mystery!
Oh men and women who greenly strive
To keep our precious specie alive
While dummy mummies and pricks agree
That looking down from their SUV
And lording it so definitively
Makes them better than you and me!
Do YOU have a Green Poem you’d like to share? Send it by email or as a comment here!
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