What Keats Would Say Today comic poem 372 by Angela Lansbury

In anticipation of Burns night, inspired by A Facebook group, Mary's Law of English Rhyme.  I wrote this:

Angela Lansbury

Around the world groups greet new year

Briefly give last year's wins review

Reunion with friends old and new

Resolve what we and teams should do

Aultd lang syne's sung worldwide by all

'though we don't understand the words

We link arms, unless Covid calls

Sing, reading phones, repeat what's heard

Drive home on our old winding road 

"Police!" Drivers don't dare to drink 

Although a drop of warm whisky

Might help him talk and laugh and think 

Bounce over potholes, brave the bumps

They teach it's time for us to slow

Our party is with us right here

Wherever we may ride and go

We wait until we reach our home 

Where, law abiding as I am

At last together and alone 

I pour prosecoo, your wee dram  

 

I sink on my soft, sofa bed

My foam pillow's in silk, clean, deep

"Good night, my love, now you rest well,

Forget bad news, think sheep, and sleep."

Old love is like a long dead rose

Like a favourite comfy boot

But like a gnarled black winter tree

In spring it brings grandchildren, fruit.

My thoughts run races through my head

Before the nobile's  morning bleep  

I smile and chat with folks long dead

Then wake refreshed from drunken sleep.

-ends- 

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Note for poetry purists and the curious> When I wrote, 'Sing reading phones', I meant reading the words from phones. I was thinking of being at the last night of Writers Summer School when we sing Auld Lang Syne out of season.  Presentation and slide were words too long tor the line so I changed it to reading off a mobile phone. The unintended secodn meaning could be that people are reading whatsapp messages on their phones instead of singing Auld Lang Syne because they cannot understand the words and got distracted when looking for the words.

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