Friday Poetry Corner

[AlfredJPruffock]

My Love
Is like a red red rose
That's newly sprung in June

My Love
Is like the melody
That's sweetly played in Tune


Robert Burns

[ladymuck]

fluorine


arsenic in calculators, mercury in felt

hats, mad as a poisoned hatter

pyrophoric undercurrent in mundane

acts assume poison unless otherwise

informed crowded alloys detect no

health damage until generations later i

brush my teeth with nuclear intensity

the cavities i avoid destined for others

fall into hazardous-waste piles up as

i sleep smells though i don’t see it

transported across oceans & into sad

rural neglect how shiny my teeth are

this cold crisp morning



Rita Wong

[Uncle Albert]

I've started on an epic poem in the style of the great William Topaz McGonagall.

It's called Coronovirus, but I've only managed fours stanzas so far. Feel free to add lines if you are gripped with poetic inspiration.

Twas in the year of twenty twenty
A time that will be remembered plenty
That the world was stuck down by flu
Of a type unkown as it was quite new

It emerged in the city of Wuhan
Where it spread from bats on to man
And once it had taken hold
It attacked all young and old

From that part of Eastern China
It spread itself wider and wider
Passed on by coughs and sneezes
And even by the gentlest of breezes

And so by relentless circumnavigation
It spread as far as the Caledonian nation
The land of Sir Walter Scott
Began to suffer quite a lot

[NotAllThere]

I've started on an epic poem in the style of the great William Topaz McGonagall.

It's called Coronovirus, but I've only managed fours stanzas so far. Feel free to add lines if you are gripped with poetic inspiration.

Twas in the year of twenty twenty
A time that will be remembered plenty
That the world was stuck down by flu
Of a type unkown as it was quite new

It emerged in the city of Wuhan
Where it spread from bats on to man
And once it had taken hold
It attacked all young and old

From that part of Eastern China
It spread itself wider and wider
Passed on by coughs and sneezes
And even by the gentlest of breezes

And so by relentless circumnavigation
It spread as far as the Caledonian nation
The land of Sir Walter Scott
Began to suffer quite a lot

Wonderful. I can't help with more stanzas, but feel it should end:

And that was the end of man-snake-bat-flu.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I have to confess it gladens my Heart to see other poets on CUK - now here is excellent musical ditty about COV19 - laughed ? I nearly died !!!

YouTube Song for Dominic Cummings