POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

[Gray]

Wasn't it a wonderful game?
I loved it.

[Marian]

Our daughter and her boyfriend are travelling up to Leeds tomorrow to see the match Gray. We are babysitting for the weekend.

[ROBERT M.]

It was a truly brilliant game Keith ...........wish all games had the excitement this game contained..............in the end the Gunners had a deserved first ever victory over their Spanish foes ...............isn't it so pleasing that Jack Wilshere is English born and bred, what a future that young lad has .............now if only Gareth Bale could somehow become English too ......................another truly outstanding performace was by the Arsenal centre half, can't remember his name right now, but wow what a future he has too, where they find him ? ..........did he come a French team Keith ?

[Lena & Harry Smith]

It was one of the best games that we've watched in a long time and surprised but thankfull there was only one goal in it for Barcelona at half time. It certainly raised our blood pressure.
Our friend, whose family still live here, emigrated to Australia some years ago and still supports his beloved gunners, put the score up on Facebook at least Four times within seconds of the result. Fantastic. !!!!

[keithgood838]

DOWNBEAT DESTROYER

Hail Luke Donald, the modest man from High Wycombe,
standing today at the pinnacle of match play golf;
thrashing three Americans, two Italians
and a German now world number one,
en route to the World Championship convincingly won -
the ostensible sheep that transmutes into ravenous wolf.

Keith Good

[keithgood838]

SURREAL SUCCESS
(and World Cup woe)

Startingly, the Irish also-rans beat the English
at cricket;
a Goliath humbling embarrassingly
toe-curling;
the way the fates might be almost
as wicked
would be if England were to beat Ireland
at hurling.

[keithgood838]

WE HAVE DREAMED
(adapted from I Have Dreamed
by Rodgers & hammerstein)

We have dreamed of heaven reunion;
we have dreamed the joy there would be;
dreamed the sunrises in profusion
of smiles when dear Matt we see.
How he'd look in forever footlights;
we have dreamed and enjoyed each show;
Barbican-style pain-free nights;
wish list songs from here below;
divine panache that so delights -
Matt Monro in peak-of-powers flow ...

Keith Good

[mariana44]

Very clever Keith--one of my favourite songs.

[keithgood838]

Thanks Marian(a)
I shamelessly, and gratefully, used Ed as a sounding board
for each of my adaptations prior to posting hereon;
interestingly, his favourite from the collection was That Was The Life.
God bless him.
Keith

[keithgood838]

Speaking of getting published, Robert,
the following verse was written with
St Patrick's Day in mind; it is receiving
its first airing on this forum. By the way,
blessed with all the requisite attributes,
Matt should have had bestowed on him
the accolade of honorary Irish citizenship -
especially for his willingness to sing another song.

EARTH SALT

There is a winsome warmth about the Irish
not readily replicated elsewhere;
a personally generated radiance
that counters stilted coolness in the air.
An eye-twinkle that hints at capriciousness,
and smile equally at home in the eyes;
a laugh at daft political correctness
though the Irish joke comes as no surprise.
Defending their God-fearing keep from swearing,
they inventively marshal euphemisms,
which make the Irish all the more endearing
when allied to disarming Irishisms.

No peacock syndrome warps the Irish psyche;
such strutting steps no Irish person takes;
perhaps oleaginous traits were banished
when St Patrick rid the green idyll of snakes.

Keith Good

[Marian]

Excellent +++ Keith.
Happy St Patrick's Day for the 17th.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Lovely poems Keith. For anyone that doesn't know Kilburn has the highest Irish population of any London area and is known as "Little Ireland." We could tell many heartwarming stories of lovely Irish friends and neighbours.
Have a great St Patricks Day tomorrow.

[keithgood838]

Thanks Marian and L&H. I hereby confer
honorary Irish status on my forum companions
all of whom are eminently qualified to receive the accolade.
On the subject of ethnicity, perhaps the following verse
should appear on Today's Joke:

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE

'Midsomer is the last bastion of Englishness,
and I intend to keep it that way.'
So asserts producer and philosopher
Mr Brian True-May.
With murder and adultery depicted
as rife throughout the place,
yet could never be perpetrated
by someone with a non-white face.

[Marian]

COUNTRY FOLKS

Susie Lee done fell in love
She planned to marry Joe
She was so happy 'bout it all
She told her pappy so

Pappy told her "Susie gal
You'll have to find another
I'd just as soon yo' ma don't know
But Joe is yo' half brother."

So Susie put aside her Joe
And planned to marry Will
But after telling Pappy this
He said "There's trouble still

You cannot marry Will, my gal
And please don't tell yo' mother
But Will and Joe and several mo'
I know is yo' half brother"

But Mama knew and said "my child
Just do what makes you happy
Marry Will or marry Joe
Yo' ain't no kin to Pappy"

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Good one Marian. Female equality.