What other people write about
On days when they cannot go out
Most children write of simple things
Bikes, scooters, not safe swimming rings
Of playing games and silly names
Of buses, cars and trains and planes
About goldfish, big cats, small dogs
Not giggly things like jumping frogs
Teenagers write about first love
A kiss and the blind moon above
Later they write about love lost
Of drugs and fast cars, not the cost
Whilst lying in their single bed
They dream of one they wish they'd wed.
Parents write of their baby's smiles
Not dripping taps nor laying tiles.
Old people, some like to complain
Although there's lots they should explain
Their youth which won't come back again
Claim their life's full of sun - or rain
Now, poets, what do poets write?
Of how they sat up half the night
And tried to put the world to right
Telling what other people write.
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Photo of Angela Lansbury with large pencil.
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