Monday 5 September 2011

A "GIVE ME A TOPIC" POEM

Here's the topic a follower suggested I might like to write a poem about.  If you have any ideas, do pass them my way




NO SOUVENIRE
No. Souvenir?  You promised you would!
did want some tat from New York,
“A Present From Broadway”, or some such bad taste,
Or even a French champagne cork.


Wot, no sombrero?  No “kiss-me-quick” hat?
No rude seaside postcard, oh, shame!
No interesting pong from the duty free shop?
Now, that’s really not playing the game.


No t-shirt from Blackpool! I’m so deeply hurt,
Do you know, I might even cry,
No bracelet from Brighton, no beach towel declaring
In crimson, SEE FRINTON AND DIE.”


But what really battered our friendship to bits,
And came as somewhat of a shock;
The one thing I asked for and what you forgot,
Was a stick of pink peppermint rock.