- THE THUMB
- This poem was prompted by a program by the BBC, during which the BNP candidate was ambushed. It was followed a few days later by a news item in which an Asian man was seen to raise a thumb in a gesture of sympathy if not support. I have used the three cases of alliteration displaced, indicative and severed to distraction. In my dreams I imagine getting the number of words per line to allow the orator to go at walk trot canter and charge pace. This will have to be completed in future edits. If I get Betjeman to edit and Richard Burton to orate I could be on to a winner
- Any way on with the Brown Thumb!
- THE BROWN THUMB
- BEEB to the left;
- In usual stance
- BNP the right
- Kangerood,
- Without a chance
- From the heights they volleyed and thundered
- Into the valley rode……………………………”
- The brown thumb!!!!
- Raised in sympathetic gesture
- Bravely follows freedom’s culture
- Others join this new brigade
- Defining freedom to our aid
- There’s a platoon of colonel blimps
- If beneath the white skin you’d care to glimpse
- The 19th hole has episodes chopped
- Carruthers and Irish are friendly swopped
- Garnet with media still free spoken
- Such bonds never broken
- Laughing with and at
- Both white and black attack
- Cause the enemy remorse and severe attrition
- The BEEB by self-examination
- The BNP long term education
- Surely now bars to freedom are defeated
- But sadly as they top the rise
- Despair can then show no disguise
- For there the enemy that ne’er relent
- Wig, Gown and Good Intent
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