The royal wedding in pictures; Plus:
Was Kate's dress a winner?
That's the first email I found
checking my inbox before bed.
Moi, I'd dozed off watching 'live'
the late evening telecast of
the poshest pageantry
in living memory.
Simon Schama 'historian'
was one commentator,
sitting it seemed in a glass box
to one side of Buck Palace.
Soft spot for Schama I have.
Hard put he was to shift us
from the engulfing shallowness,
and the vox pop interludes...
Oh the choirboys were scrumptious,
wouldn't have missed them,
and not all pallid anglos
lifting up their hearts in song -
(Blake over by St Paul's.
Parry's Blake's Jerusalem,
now, wasn't that spine-tingling?
Even if its radicalism
is done over by the establishment.
Hovering over Hyde Park at times
we saw the hoi polloi
whistling as their 'commoner'
Kate became Princess Catherine,
pizza bars and fun fair beckoning.
Then the cam showed us inside
an old Lancaster cockpit!
And a Spitfire flew beside it
above the millions and the royals.
Patrick, Doug, you surely
would have thrilled to that.
But the horses were what mostly
I wanted to see, bestrode
by antique uniforms.
Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> I guess you have to be there
>
> (me: I was at a poetry reading last night& went to bed...)
>
> Doug
> On 2011-04-29, at 2:47 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > For me, Patrick, it's doubly worse: he's an Aston Villa supporter (growl)
> >
> > (grew up next door to St Andrews and the Stan Cullis Blues me)
> >
> > :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 29 April 2011 09:25, Patrick McManus
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> >> BBC NEWS HEADLINES
> >> (found poem 29 -4-11)
> >>
> >> The royal wedding
> >> Guests arrive at Westminster Abbey
> >> Prince William meets well-wishers
> >> The route from Westminster Abbey
> >> Preparations for the royal wedding
> >> Cheers for Kate at Abbey rehearsal
> >> Middletons arrive at London hotel
> >> 'Sick to death of royal wedding!'
> >> 'Royals are benefit scroungers'
> >>
> >> pmcmanus
> >> q822
> >>
> >> all the whimpering
> >> all the simpering
> >> it must be a
> >> royal wedding
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-
press_10.html
>
> Just a late night pilgrim
> Looking for redemption in the underground.
> Lord, won't you help a late night pilgrim
> When the morning comes around.
>
> Tift Merritt
>
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