Thanks, Patrick. The gawk line was the original finisher. I just thought
the poem might have been too much about the gawk so I gave more great man
but even there the gawk got in at the end I suppose.
Bill
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 8:04 pm, Patrick McManus <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Bill my penneth? I would finish on gawk
>
> On 09/06/2020 23:52, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> > Metaphorically rich and in fact replete with meaning, Bill. Thank you.
> > Sheila
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:40 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The great man waits in the car
> >>
> >> The great man waits in the car outside
> >>
> >> The great man waits in the car outside with his wife
> >>
> >> It is my doing
> >>
> >>
> >> The great man had knocked on the door
> >>
> >> The great man had stood on the threshold with his wife
> >>
> >> The great man and his wife had retreated
> >>
> >> when I said they’d be home soon
> >>
> >>
> >> I hadn’t felt able to invite the great man and his wife
> >>
> >> into the house to wait for those they wanted to see
> >>
> >> so the great man and his wife waited in the car
> >>
> >> while I kept moving, window checking from time to time
> >>
> >>
> >> It might have been twenty minutes before they arrived,
> >>
> >> those the great man and his wife had come to see
> >>
> >> Now all were gathered in the front room,
> >>
> >> the griffin, his great partner, the greeters and the gawk
> >>
> >>
> >> The great man’s wife is dead now
> >>
> >> His visiting days are over
> >>
> >> Last week the great man was elevated
> >>
> >>
> >> to the ultimate service title
> >>
> >> He would at least have been offered
> >>
> >> a cup of coffee inside while waiting
> >>
> >>
> >> bw
> >>
> >>
> >> My question for all is does it need the last two stanzas which I added
> this
> >> morning?
> >>
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> ########################################################################
> >>
> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link:
> >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1
> >>
> >> This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a
> >> mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are
> >> available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
> >>
> > ########################################################################
> >
> > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link:
> > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1
> >
> > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a
> mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are
> available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
>
> ########################################################################
>
> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link:
> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1
>
> This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a
> mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are
> available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
>
########################################################################
To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1
This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
|