If you have written a poem which you would like to share on Pete's Poetry Corner, send your poem to [email protected] or post to Speakability, 1 Royal Street, London, SE1 7LL. Here, There and Everywhere (Too Many Marrows for One Club to Share) Please take a marrow, we've got plenty to spare, We had a great crop and now they are everywhere. We've got great big huge ones and baby courgettes, Grown on our allotment under the safety of nets. Oh please take these marrows away from me, Take one home - you can try taxidermy. You can stuff it with onions and all kinds of meat, When you have finished you've got a nice tasty treat. I've also heard they can make quite good pets, Easy to look after and no trip to the vets. As I try to sleep, they invade my dreams, Trying to haunt me, or so it seems. So PLEASE, for the sake of my own sanity, Won't somebody take these marrows from me? By Pete Clark, Southend Speakability Group Jubilee Jubilanty Red white and blue are the colours on view Our gracious Queen Elizabeth the Second is worthy of this hue, Her sixty years of glorious and faultless leadership we give her due Through times of austerity and plenty we passed through not a few. This June we join crowds cheering Hip, Hip, Hurray On our happy and most auspicious very special day, She has surely shown the perfect and right way What enemies we may have had has been surely kept at bay. The flags will come out and the bunting as well We will all have a good time our offsprings later to tell, Playing the Royalty Card never fails to ring the bell All colours and backgrounds never ceasing to yell. As the crowd gather hailing from Lands End to John O Groats We shall yell God Save The Queen with a lump in our throats, If she was up for election she could count on my vote But alas as I am a commoner and no one of note. She has reigned over us through bad times and good Though people regard me as a stick in the mud, I'd like to do something special if only I could But in her Majesty I see nothing but good. As the years speed past we look back into history And the part played by Elizabeth 1st. Victoria shrouded in mystery, But my God and her's has shaped our destiny Having ruled country and commonwealth well down to her excellence. The years have sped past and it's destined to last The dye has been cast and our colours fly proudly from the mast, We show our appreciation to our monarch, our devotion is vast Shouting in harmony God Save The Queen and stand back aghast. By John V. Waby, Lincoln Speakability Group
Time To Talk Thank you all for giving me help and for giving me hope Together, with fun and laughter, we are learning to cope When you talk to me, there is no need for you to shout Just give me enough time and I'll get my words out Give me time - that's what you should do Beware - for tomorrow it could happen to you By Pete Clark, Southend Speakability Group Growing Pains I'm purple wheelchair Pete, I'm on parsnip patrol Something has gone very wrong they've grown out of control I planted the seeds with lots of love, attention and care I even got out of my purple wheelchair The garlic I planted hardly grew at all You'd be better off going to the market stall. Hey hoe What can you grow Down at the allotment today? Once I had a raspberry cane But it will never be the same Since I pruned it very hard As instructed on the card Now it stands there as lifeless as a brick A sad and lonely, dried up bit of stick. Hey hoe What can you grow Down at the allotment today? Somewhere under a raincloud, many crops grow just fine Why, then oh why don't mine? By Pete Clark, Southend Speakability Group |