A Beltane Rhyme…
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© Gail Foster April 28th 2018
A Beltane Rhyme…
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© Gail Foster April 28th 2018
Me reading a slighty flirtatious Spring poem…
The Devizes Arts Festival Poetry Slam
Tuesday 14th June 2016
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So, you know how to weave a villanelle
You’re a master of blank verse and sonnet
You’ve a tale of mysterious mirth to tell
Get on it
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For down deep, in the Merchants Suite
When the dancing girls have gone
You, on the stage, rhyming sorrow and rage
Bring it on
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You’re a rhymer, a rapper, it burns in your soul
You say that you always knew it
So, bring it to town, camp it up, smack it down
Just do it
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© Gail Foster 2016
Free entry, apply online http://www.devizesartsfestival.org.uk
In which I am no better than the sweary kid on the number 33…
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Effing this, and jeffing that
Another bus, another tw*t
Impressing peers with his wit
Sort of. Slightly. Just a bit.
Drop the ‘c’ bomb, hey why not
Girls will think you’re really hot
Louder, lad, we want to hear
About the weed and drugs and beer
You smoke and deal and snort and sup
How you get high and then throw up
That college bores you to a yawn
That bigger breasts make better porn
Ooh, a word that rhymes with tank
Have we got Tourette’s to thank
For the verbal diarrhoea
You pour in to our captive ear
Or are you, sunshine, simply rude
Insecure, pathetic, lewd
Wow, a word that rhymes with sock
Shouted loud to cause a shock
Tits and fanny, bell end, bum
Words you wouldn’t say to Mum
What makes you think we want to know
That so and so is just a ho
That your best mate’s a massive tool
It’s just like being back at school
There’s no escape, we’re on the bus
We’ve got to listen to you cuss
All the way to flippin’ town
Please lad, turn the volume down
Before I stand and loud recite
This rhyme I felt compelled to write
Inspired by the irritation
Caused by your inane oration
The bus is crawling up Dunkirk
My poem will keep, you’re just a jerk
Ah, the joys of middle age
Intolerance, indignant rage
Imagine if I’d read the verse
I’d have been like you but worse
So not the time or place for it
Back seat joker, talking sh*t
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by Gail
the crazy preacher man
he speaks
to me
I and the crowd
hypnotised
confused
and squinting
his shadow stands
before the sun
his silver words
are slivering
forth from ancient nets
fisher of men
gathering
it may be so
maybe it was
ever so
and so
some say
it may well
ever be
yet know ye this
that nothing new
shall ever stand
against the sun
and speak as He
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by Gail